It takes the average reader 4 hours and 58 minutes to read Goodnight Bobbie by Marilyn Dodkin
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
It is 1941. Australia is at war and there are fears of an attack on the homeland. Captain Bobbie Puflett, a doctor serving with the 10th Australian General Hospital of the 8th Division in Malaya, writes to his parents Bob and Ethel and sister Del. When the Allies surrender to the Japanese in February 1942, Bobbie is one of 15,000 men of the 8th Division who disappear. It is eighteen months before his family knows that he is a prisoner of war, but they continue to write. This is one family’s story told through letters. We learn of everyday life in wartime Sydney and service in the allied...
Goodnight Bobbie by Marilyn Dodkin is 294 pages long, and a total of 74,676 words.
This makes it 99% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 48 minutes to read Goodnight Bobbie aloud.
Goodnight Bobbie is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.
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