How long does it take to read Then?
Then by Morris Gleitzman takes about 3 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Once
About 3 hours 38 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2008. 198 pages, about 54,450 words. Written for children.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 16 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In early 1940s Poland, ten-year-old Felix and his friend Zelda escape from a cattle car headed to the Nazi death camps and struggle to survive, first on their own and then with Genia, a farmer with her own reasons for hating Germans.
Subjects: Orphans, Juvenile fiction, Child and youth fiction, Children's fiction, Jews, fiction, Survival, fiction
