How long does it take to read The Secret of Platform 13?
Eva Ibbotson, Yi bo sen, Jiang shu qin
The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson, Yi bo sen, Jiang shu qin takes about 4 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 14 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1994. 231 pages, about 63,525 words. Written for children.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Odge Gribble, a young hag, joins an old wizard, a gentle fey, and a giant ogre on a journey from their magical island kingdom to London through a tunnel which opens every nine years for nine days, to try and rescue the young prince who had been stolen as an infant nine years before.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Quests (Expeditions), Fiction, Fairy tales, Wizards, Children's fiction
