# Five Little Peppers at School

Five Little Peppers at School by Margaret Sidney has 84,502 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Margaret Sidney](https://musael.com/books/authors/margaret-sidney.md) (1844–1924)
- **Genre:** children fiction
- **Readers:** middle grade

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 84,502
- **Reading time:** 5 h 38 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 9 h 5 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 7 h 3 min | 15 days |
| 250 wpm | 5 h 38 min | 12 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 42 min | 10 days |

## Read or listen

Five Little Peppers at School is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26122
- LibriVox audiobook (7 h 56 min): https://librivox.org/five-little-peppers-at-school-by-margaret-sidney/

## Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

- Words in the text: 84,502
- Dialogue: 44% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 12.6 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26122 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1528824W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26122

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/five-little-peppers-at-school