How long does it take to read Wayside School Is Falling Down?
Wayside School Is Falling Down by Louis Sachar takes about 3 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Wayside School
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About 3 hours 17 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1989. 179 pages, about 49,225 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 28 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 27 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Watch Closely," said Mrs. Jewls. "You can learn much faster using a computer instead of paper and pencil." Then she pushed the new computer out the window. The children watched it fall thirty floors and smash against the sidewalk. "See?" said Mrs. Jewls. "That's gravity! I've been trying to teach you about gravity, but the computer showed you a lot quicker!" That's the way things happen at Wayside School. There are 29 kids in Mrs. Jewls's class and this book is about all of them. There is Todd, who got in trouble every day...until he got a magic dog; Paul, whose life was saved by Leslie's pigtails; Ron, who dared to try the cafeteria's Mushroom Surprise--and all the others who helped turn a day at Wayside school into one madcap adventure after another. But, after the things that happened in Sideways Stories from Wayside School, what would you expect?
Subjects: Humorous stories, Schools, Fiction, Show-and-tell presentations, Show-and-tell presentations in fiction, Juvenile fiction
