How long does it take to read Thirteenth Child?
Thirteenth Child by Patricia C. Wrede takes about 6 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Frontier Magic
Next: Across the Great Barrier
About 6 hours 27 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2009. 352 pages, about 96,800 words. Written for children.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 27 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Eff was born a thirteenth child. Her twin brother, Lan, is the seventh son of a seventh son. This means he's supposed to possess amazing talent -- and she's supposed to bring only bad things to her family and her town. Undeterred, her family moves to the frontier, where her father will be a professor of magic at a school perilously close to the magical divide that separates settlers from the beasts of the wild.
Subjects: Frontier Magic, Young Adult, Magic, Brothers and sisters, Alternate History, Juvenile fiction
