How long does it take to read Shipwreck?
Shipwreck by Gordon Korman takes about 2 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Island
Next: Survival
About 2 hours 22 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2001. 129 pages, about 35,475 words. Written for children.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 29 minutes |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Six kids, Nick, J.J., Will, Lyssa, Charla, and Ian, are thrown together against their will on a small boat that will make a one-month journey on the Pacific Ocean. They have all been sent for different reasons. Luke is taking his only choice besides being sent to a juvenile detention facility for a crime he didn't commit. Will and Lyssa are quarreling siblings sent by their parents, who hope the trip will teach them to get along better. J.J. was sent by a movie-star father after he pulled one two many pranks. Ian's parents hoped to cure him of his TV addiction. Charla was sent because she was having an athletic "burnout." But these six totally different kids have to learn to work together to survive a vicious storm and a shipwreck that leave them stranded in the middle of the ocean with no food, no water, and almost no hope for survival.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Shipwrecks, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Shipwrecks, fiction, Children's fiction, Castaways
