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How long does it take to read Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing?

Judy Blume

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume takes about 2 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Part of Fudge

Next: Superfudge

About 2 hours 12 minutes

An evening's read

First published 1972. 120 pages, about 33,000 words. Written for children.

5 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 3 hours 40 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 2 hours 12 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 1 hour 23 minutes

The page count is the median across 56 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing is a children's novel written by American author Judy Blume and published in 1972. It is the first in the Fudge series. The story focuses on a nine-year-old boy named Peter Warren Hatcher and his relationship with his two-and-a-half-year-old brother, Farley Drexel "Fudge" Hatcher.

Content warnings (AI-checked, may be incomplete)
  • animal death

How these are chosen

Subjects: turtles, Humorous stories, Brothers, Juvenile fiction, Family life, Fiction

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