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At a glance
- Author
- Gertrude Chandler Warner1890–1979
- Genre
- Adventure
- Readers
- Middle grade
- Length
- Shortunder 40,000 words
How long it takes to read
About 1 h 38 min at 250 words a minute, or 2 h 39 min as an audiobook.
| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
|---|---|---|
| Careful200 words a minute | 2 h 3 min | 5 days |
| Average250 words a minute | 1 h 38 min | 4 days |
| Fast300 words a minute | 1 h 22 min | 3 days |
The Box-Car Children
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Compared with other books
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Counted from the text
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- Words in the text
- 24,613
- Dialogue
- 27%of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence
- 11.3 words
- Vocabulary
- 425 different words in every 1,000Distinct words in the sampled text; this does not measure writing quality.
Where the numbers come from
The word count comes from the sources below.
- gutenberg.orgword count
- openlibrary.orgbook record
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Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.
Questions
How many words is The Box-Car Children?
The Box-Car Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner has 24,613 words.
How long does it take to read The Box-Car Children?
About 1 h 38 min at 250 words a minute, or 2 h 39 min as an audiobook.
How many days to read The Box-Car Children at 30 minutes a day?
About 4 days at an average reading speed.
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