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How long does it take to read A Stranger at Green Knowe?

L. M. Boston

A Stranger at Green Knowe by L. M. Boston takes about 2 hours 54 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 4 of Green Knowe

Previous: The River at Green Knowe

About 2 hours 54 minutes

An evening's read

First published 1961. 158 pages, about 43,450 words. Written for children.

6 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 4 hours 50 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 2 hours 54 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 1 hour 49 minutes

The page count is the median across 25 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

A strange friendship develops between a young Chinese refugee who is spending the summer at Green Knowe and a gorilla who has escaped from the London Zoo.

Subjects: Dwellings, Fiction, Gorilla, Great-grandmothers, Human-animal relationships, Children and animals

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