It takes the average reader 1 hour and 28 minutes to read Mouldy's Orphan by Gillian Avery
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A story set in Victorian times, of Mouldy, so called because her hair was like mouldy hay, who was dreamer and who thought how marvellous it would be if she could find a poor little orphan , so that she could take him home and mum could look after him. Her opportunity came on a school outing to a pantomime in Oxford, where she noticed a ragged boy outside the theatre and managed to smuggle him onto the train home and when she got home her mother was horrified. To bring home an orphan boy meant another mouth to feed and for Mouldy's family, where there was not much money, this was bound to...
Mouldy's Orphan by Gillian Avery is 86 pages long, and a total of 22,016 words.
This makes it 29% the length of the average book. It also has 27% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours to read Mouldy's Orphan aloud.
Mouldy's Orphan is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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