Question & Answers › Category: Writing › Curious 0 Vote Up Vote Down Andrew Kole asked 8 years ago How-many-pages-based-on-formatting-would-an-average-40000-word-middle-grade-book-be-in-a-6×9-format? 1 Answers 0 Vote Up Vote Down Sarah Davies Staff answered 8 years ago Hi Andrew On the basis of 250 words per page, about 160 pages. Sorry, I can’t work it out with the format you propose, so this is calculated in manuscript pages. Hope that helps! Sarah