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First Time: Penny's Story by Abigail Barnette

First Time: Penny's Story: Audiobook

Book 2 of the By the Numbers series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the First Time: Penny's Story audiobook runs 8.7 hours unabridged, narrated by Lexi Maynard (about 5.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

8.7listening hrs
Modernstore shelf
2016released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 8.7 hours of listening.

Days to finish First Time: Penny's Story at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day18 days
1 hour / day9 days
2 hours / day5 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×6 days

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What our data says

  • At 8.7 hours, it runs longer than 60% of the 16,241 Modern audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on By the Numbers

This is book 2. Book 1 runs 9.5 hours before it; books 1 to 4 run 36.4 hours in all.

About as long, on the Modern shelf

3,433 Modern audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

First Time: Penny's Story is book 2 of Abigail Barnette's By the Numbers series: a 8.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Lexi Maynard, released May 31, 2016, on the Modern and Fiction shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
8.7 hrs
Narrated by
Lexi Maynard
Released
May 31, 2016
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Modern, Fiction
Series
By the Numbers #2
ISBN
9781515976813

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the First Time: Penny's Story audiobook?

First Time: Penny's Story runs 8.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.8 hours.

Is the First Time: Penny's Story audiobook free?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

Who narrates First Time: Penny's Story?

First Time: Penny's Story is narrated by Lexi Maynard.