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How many pages is Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger?

Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger by Louis Sachar has a median of 168 pages across 9 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 168 to 176 pages.

Median pages
168
9 editions counted
Range
150–208
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
3.0h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
46k
at 275 words per page

How long will Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger 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
2 h 58 min
At 30 min a day
6 days
At 1 hour a day
3 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

1601802002000201020201995: 168 pages1996: 168 pages2004: 176 pages2005: 150 pages2006: 150 pages2010: 168 pages2017: 208 pages2020: 172 pages2021: 192 pagesmedian 168
1601802002000201020201995: 168 pages1996: 168 pages2004: 176 pages2005: 150 pages2006: 150 pages2010: 168 pages2017: 208 pages2020: 172 pages2021: 192 pagesmedian 168
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 9 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 21 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2021Bloomsbury Publishing Plc–192OL33837671M
2020Thorndike Press–172OL30367708M
2017HarperCollins Publishers Limited–208OL29757565M
2010Scholastic, Inc.–168OL26339367M
2006Listening LibraryHardcover150OL10352458M
2005HarperTrophy–150OL22997440M
2004Bloomsbury Publishing PLCPaperback176OL7962477M
1996Avon BooksPaperback168OL23093224M

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Questions

How many pages is Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger?
About 168 pages: that is the median of 9 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 150 to 208 pages.
How long does it take to read Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger?
About 2 h 58 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 6 days.
How many words is Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger?
Roughly 46,000 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)).