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How many pages is Gathering Blue?

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry has a median of 224 pages across 10 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 216 to 237 pages.

Median pages
224
10 editions counted
Range
215–256
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
3.9h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
62k
at 275 words per page
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How long will Gathering Blue take you?

Starts at the fiction average of 260 words per minute and 275 words per page. Move the slider to your own speed.

Reading time
3 h 57 min
At 30 min a day
8 days
At 1 hour a day
4 days

Page count of every edition, by year

Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.

2202402602000200520102000: 215 pages2000: 256 pages2000: 224 pages2002: 215 pages2002: 224 pages2004: 219 pages2005: 224 pages2006: 215 pages2012: 241 pages2014: 256 pagesmedian 224
2202402602000200520102000: 215 pages2000: 256 pages2000: 224 pages2002: 215 pages2002: 224 pages2004: 219 pages2005: 224 pages2006: 215 pages2012: 241 pages2014: 256 pagesmedian 224
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 10 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 36 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2014HarperCollins Publishers Limited–256OL28544185M
2012Houghton Mifflin–241OL26888819M
2006Delacorte Books for Young Readers–215OL7441984M
2005Bantam Books for Young ReadersMass Market Paperback224OL7828581M
2004Editorial EverestPaperback219OL9735599M
2002Bloomsbury–215OL20867816M
2002Laurel Leaf–224OL7520082M
2000Houghton Mifflin–215OL13637545M

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Questions

How many pages is Gathering Blue?
About 224 pages: that is the median of 10 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 215 to 256 pages.
How long does it take to read Gathering Blue?
About 3 h 57 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 8 days.
How many words is Gathering Blue?
Roughly 62,000 words, estimated from the median page count at 275 words per page. Open Library does not record word counts, so this is an estimate.

Data: Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)); Wikidata: part of the series (P179) and series ordinal (Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributors).