How long does it take to read The Iron Dragon Never Sleeps?
The Iron Dragon Never Sleeps by Stephen Krensky takes about 1 hour 39 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 39 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1994. 90 pages, about 24,750 words. Written for children.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 39 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In 1867, while staying with her father in a small California mining town, ten-year-old Winnie meets a Chinese boy close to her age and discovers the role of his people in completing the transcontinental railroad.
Subjects: Fiction, Strikes and lockouts, Frontier and pioneer life, Chinese Americans, Railroads, Juvenile fiction
