How long does it take to read The Green Glass Sea?
Ellen Klages
The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages takes about 5 hours 53 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 53 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2006. 321 pages, about 88,275 words. Written for children.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 53 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
It is 1943, and 11-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is traveling west on a train to live with her scientist father--but no one will tell her exactly where he is. When she reaches Los Alamos, New Mexico, she learns why: he's working on a top secret government program.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Fathers and daughters, Scientists, Manhattan Project (U.S.), Friendship
