How long does it take to read Pirates!?
Pirates! by Celia Rees takes about 7 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours
A weekend read
First published 2003. 382 pages, about 105,050 words. Written for children.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure.
Subjects: Pirates in fiction, Pirates, Blacks, Adventure and adventurers, Juvenile fiction, Adventure and adventurers in fiction
