How long does it take to read Lifeboat 12?
Lifeboat 12 by Susan Hood takes about 5 hours 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 45 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2018. 314 pages, about 86,350 words. Written for children.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 36 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 45 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 36 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Thirteen-year-old Ken escapes from WWII London with 89 other boys and girls on a luxury liner bound for Canada. But just as they think their ship is out of danger, it gets torpedoed, and the only thing that stands between Ken and the ocean is a rickety lifeboat and 5 other boys.
Subjects: Ocean liners, Ocean travel, Survival, Fiction, Evacuation of civilians, Lifeboats
