How long does it take to read A Wind in the Door?
A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle takes about 3 hours 52 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Time Quintet
Previous: A Wrinkle in Time Next: A Swiftly Tilting Planet
About 3 hours 52 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1973. 211 pages, about 58,025 words. Written for children.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 27 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 52 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 25 minutes |
The page count is the median across 42 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A Wind in the Door is a young adult science fantasy novel by Madeleine L'Engle. It is a companion book to A Wrinkle in Time, and part of the Time Quartet (and by extension the Time Quintet). It is November. When Meg comes home from school, Charles Wallace tells her he saw dragons in the twin’s vegetable garden. That night Meg, Calvin and C.W. go to the vegetable garden to meet the Teacher (Blajeny) who explains that what they are seeing isn’t a dragon at all, but a cherubim named Proginoskes. It turns out that C.W. is ill and that Blajeny and Proginoskes are there to make him well – and by making him well, they will keep the balance of the universe in check and save it from the evil Echthros. Meg, Calvin and Mr. Jenkins (grade school principal) must travel inside C.W. to have this battle and save Charles’ life as well as the balance of the universe.
Subjects: Science fiction, Brothers and sisters, Fantasy, Sick, Fiction, Sick children
