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How long does it take to read The Ghost Cadet?

Elaine Marie Alphin

The Ghost Cadet by Elaine Marie Alphin takes about 3 hours 20 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 3 hours 20 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1991. 182 pages, about 50,050 words. Written for children.

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 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Twelve-year-old Benjy, in Virginia visiting the grandmother he has never met, meets the ghost of a Virginia Military Institute cadet who was killed in the Battle of New Market in 1864 and helps him recover his family's treasured gold watch.

Subjects: Campaigns, Fiction, Ghosts, Grandmothers, History, Juvenile fiction

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