How long does it take to read Acorna?
The Unicorn Girl
Acorna by Anne McCaffrey, Margaret Ball takes about 5 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Acorna
Next: Acorna's Quest
About 5 hours 34 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1997. 304 pages, about 83,600 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 17 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 34 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 29 minutes |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
She was just a little girl, with a tiny horn in the center of her forehead, funny-looking feet, beautiful silver hair, and several curious powers: the ability to purify air and water, make plants grow, and heal scars and broken bones. A trio of grizzled prospectors found her drifting in an escape pod amid the asteroids, adopted her, and took her to the bandit planet Kezdet, a place where no questions are asked and the girl might grow up free. But Kezdet has its own dark secret. The prosperity of the planet is based on a hideous trade in child slave labor, administered by "The Piper" -- a mystery man with special plans for Acorna and her powers. But free little girls have a way of growing into freedom-loving young women, and Acorna has special plans all her own.
Subjects: Fiction, Acorna (Fictitious character), Abandoned children, Unicorns, Child abuse, Fiction, science fiction, general
