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How long does it take to read Destination Unknown?

K. A. Applegate

Destination Unknown by K. A. Applegate takes about 2 hours 54 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 2 hours 54 minutes

An evening's read

First published 2001. 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 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

When the world ended, there was the Eighty. Eighty people given the chance for survival. Given the chance to board a revamped space shuttle programmed to find them a new place to live. Somewhere to start over after an asteroid had destroyed the entire human race. Now, after a five-hundred-year "nap," the Eighty have landed -- but not everyone survived the trip. And some of those who did aren't quite right. Actually, there are a lot of things that aren't quite right -- especially about the place the Eighty land. Half the terrain looks as if it's been made of bright, crazy brush-strokes, the other is like a haunting black-and-white photograph. Jobs, 2Face, Mo'Steel, and the others don't know if they're on another planet. If they're dreaming. Or if they are alive at all. But if they are alive, can they survive on this strange, new world. . . ?

Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Asteroid, Collisions with Earth, Love, Love stories, Apocalypse

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