How long does it take to read The Boxcar Children Beginning - The Aldens of Fair Meadow Farm?
Patricia MacLachlan, Tim Jessell
The Boxcar Children Beginning - The Aldens of Fair Meadow Farm by Patricia MacLachlan, Tim Jessell takes about 2 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 38 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2012. 144 pages, about 39,600 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 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In the year before they become the orphans known as the Boxcar children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden live with their parents at Fair Meadow Farm, where, although times are hard, they take in a family who has been stranded in their car during a blizzard.
Subjects: Country life, Families, Friendship, Brothers and sisters, Fiction, Juvenile fiction
