How long does it take to read The Mystery of the Stolen Boxcar?
Gertrude Chandler Warner, Charles Tang
The Mystery of the Stolen Boxcar by Gertrude Chandler Warner, Charles Tang takes about 2 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 8 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1995. 116 pages, about 31,900 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 33 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 20 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather, and they're fixing up their boxcar so they can ride it in the big Greenfield Founder's Day parade. There's just one problem. Someone has stolen the boxcar with their dog, Watch, in it! If they can only find the missing boxcar, it will lead them to Watch. Can the Boxcar Children solve their most important mystery ever? - Back cover.
Subjects: Brothers and sisters, Parades in fiction, Orphans, Fiction, Brothers and sisters in fiction, Orphans in fiction
