How long does it take to read No Children, No Pets?
Marion Holland
No Children, No Pets by Marion Holland takes about 3 hours 20 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 20 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1956. 182 pages, about 50,050 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 34 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 20 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 5 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A young adult fiction novel about a Philadelphia family who, upon inheriting an apartment building in Florida from a late Uncle, take the train to Florida only to find a dilapidated building with many tenants of long-standing: an imperious lady tenant and many initially mysterious ones who turn out to have led interesting lives. A missing apartment manager and a young boy with no known home are additional characters whose roles are unveiled in the aftermath of a hurricane that threatens the apartment building's residents. Told from the point of view of the oldest daughter of a family led by a single Mom.
Subjects: Fiction, Apartment houses, Florida, hurricane, Philadelphia
