How long does it take to read Deep and Dark and Dangerous?
Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn takes about 3 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 26 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2007. 187 pages, about 51,425 words. Written for children.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Ali goes on vacation in maine with her aunt dulcie, and her baby cousin emma. soon emma and ali meet a sassy girl named sissy, who is a bad influence on emma. Sissy keeps talking about a girl named teresa, who drowned back when claire, Ali's mom, and dulcie were little kids, and whose body was never found. At first Ali thinks that sissy is just trying to scare her and emma, but soon figures out why Sissy is so angry.
Subjects: Secrets, Cousins, Fiction, Mothers and daughters, Ghosts, Children's fiction
