How long does it take to read The Underground?
The Underground by K. A. Applegate takes about 3 hours 5 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 17 of Animorphs
Previous: The Warning Next: The Departure
About 3 hours 5 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1998. 168 pages, about 46,200 words. Written for children.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 8 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 5 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
What's tasty, good for you, and only takes sixty seconds to make? Oatmeal. And it's making the Yeerks more than a little crazy. Now Rachel, the other Animorphs, and Ax have a new weapon against the Yeerks. Sounds good, right? Wrong. Because it means another trip to the Yeerk pool. And the possibility of running into Visser Three. And of not being able to get back up to the surface. The Animorphs and Ax have taken chances before and been very lucky. But this time their luck may be about to run out...
Subjects: Transformation, Juvenile fiction, Science fiction, Metamorphosis, Extraterrestrial beings, Fiction
