How long does it take to read Nightbirds on Nantucket?
Joan Aiken, Robin Jacques
Nightbirds on Nantucket by Joan Aiken, Robin Jacques takes about 3 hours 53 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Wolves Chronicles
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About 3 hours 53 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1966. 212 pages, about 58,300 words. Written for children.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 53 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 27 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Having had enough of life on board the ship that saved her from a watery grave, Dido Twite wants nothing more than to sail home to England. Instead, Captain Casket's ship lands in Nantucket, where Dido and the captain's daughter, Dutiful Penitence, are left in the care of Dutiful's sinister Aunt Tribulation. In Tribulation's farmhouse, life is unbearable. When mysterious men lurk about in the evening fog, the resourceful Dido rallies against their shenanigans with help from Dutiful, a cabinboy named Nate, and a pink whale.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Fantasy, Whaling, Whaling ships, Whales, History
