How long does it take to read Hilda and the Black Hound?
Hilda and the Black Hound by Luke Pearson takes about 1 hour 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 10 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2014. 64 pages, about 17,600 words. Written for children.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 1 hour 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 44 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"The city of Trolberg has yet more secrets to unravel in an adventure where Hilda discovers her world is not quite held together in the way she thought it was. Hilda is sat in her tent, dwarfed by volumes of the Greater Fjords Wildlife Chronicles with a flashlight and her restless companion, Twig. But Hilda's not in the Fjords and it isn't raining. Hilda's pitched a tent in her room and it's been days since she's been out. In Hilda's new adventure, she meets the Nisse: a mischievous but charismatic bunch of misfits who occupy a world beside -- but, also somehow within -- our own and where the rules of physics don't quite match up. Meanwhile, on the streets of Trolberg, a dark specter looms ..."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Perros, Camping, Girls, Fiction, Muchachas, Dogs
