How long does it take to read The Thing About Jellyfish?
Ali Benjamin
The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin takes about 6 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 17 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2015. 343 pages, about 94,325 words. Written for children.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Some hearts beat only about 412 million times. Which might sound like a lot. But the truth is, it barely even gets you twelve years. Suzy Swanson has always known things that others don't. She can explain the sleep patterns of ants. She knows there are 150 million jellyfish stings on the planet every year. She knows that the average middle school kid contains about 20 billion of Shakespeare's atoms. But she can't understand how Franny Jackson's lifetime could be cut so short ... before Suzy could make up for the worst thing she'd ever done to her friend. As Suzy retreats into a silent world of her imagination, she finds that the universe won't allow her escape into grief. Astonishing wonders are all around her ... as are the love and hope she desperately needs to forgive herself.
Subjects: Grief, Best friends, Juvenile fiction, Friendship, Jellyfishes, Fiction
