How many words are in a chapter book for 9-12 year olds? Books like Goosebumps and Rotten School.
How many words are in a chapter book?
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Accelerated Reader by renaissance learning does the work for you. It will give you the reading level of the book (and as a first-grade teacher, I can vouch for their system being pretty accurate), and if you click on the title, the second screen will give you the word count and a brief summary.
here's the link: http://www.renlearn.com/store/quiz_home.asp#quicksearch
I looked up R. L. Stine, and it looks like most of the Goosebumps books are in the 20,000 word range. The Bunnicula series is a little shorter, about 14-16K. In general, if it gets over 25K, it's no longer called a chapter book. It would be Middle Grade Fiction.
here's the link: http://www.renlearn.com/store/quiz_home.asp#quicksearch
I looked up R. L. Stine, and it looks like most of the Goosebumps books are in the 20,000 word range. The Bunnicula series is a little shorter, about 14-16K. In general, if it gets over 25K, it's no longer called a chapter book. It would be Middle Grade Fiction.