How long does it take to read The Mystery Bookstore?
The Mystery Bookstore by Gertrude Chandler Warner takes about 2 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 12 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1995. 120 pages, about 33,000 words. Written for children.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When their grandfather buys a bookstore at auction in New Orleans, the Alden children help clean it up and discover that several people seem to be obsessed with the store and its contents.
Subjects: Fiction, Brothers and sisters, Orphans, Brothers and sisters in fiction, Stamp collecting, Bookstores
