# The Box-Car Children

The Box-Car Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner has 24,613 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Gertrude Chandler Warner](https://musael.com/books/authors/gertrude-chandler-warner.md) (1890–1979)
- **Genre:** adventure
- **Readers:** middle grade

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 24,613
- **Reading time:** 1 h 38 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 2 h 39 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 2 h 3 min | 5 days |
| 250 wpm | 1 h 38 min | 4 days |
| 300 wpm | 1 h 22 min | 3 days |

## Read or listen

The Box-Car Children is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42796

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 24,613
- Dialogue: 27% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 11.3 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42796 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL28171347W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42796

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-box-car-children