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How long does it take to read The Curse of the Blue Figurine?

John Bellairs

The Curse of the Blue Figurine by John Bellairs takes about 3 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 1 of Johnny Dixon

Next: The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt

About 3 hours 40 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1983. 200 pages, about 55,000 words. Written for children.

8 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 6 hours 7 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 40 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 18 minutes

The page count is the median across 23 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Johnny Dixon doesn't believe that the ghost of mad Father Baart haunts the town church. But then he takes an old scroll and a seemingly harmless figurine from the church basement, accepts a magic ring from a mysterious stranger--and is plunged into a terrifying adventure that may cost him his life.

Subjects: Horror stories, Mystery and detective stories, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, horror, Children's fiction, Dixon, Johnny (Personnage fictif)

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