How Long to Read Serendipity

How Long Does it Take to Read Serendipity?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 46 minutes to read Serendipity by Regina Milligan

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The Roaring Twenties came to an abrupt halt with the Stock Market Crash of '29 and the Great Depression of the 30's. Never mind that the adult world faced disaster, unemployment, payless paydays, breadlines and hoboes. The children of that era ignored most of that. Taking life as they found it, they went about their own business of growing up with little thought of catastrophe. For the children, there were many comforts to be found, many adventures to encounter. Nostalgia, nostalgia is the theme of this warm-hearted view of some of those adventures children did find in the thirties and forties in the big city of Chicago. This experience is told in stories, anecdotes and events. This is a time that cannot be completely recaptured. But the flavor of that time is in this book. It sees that bygone era as a satisfying time for a child, never mind the difficulties grownups might have had. The era is recalled through pleasant memories. The manuscript is a personal/family story. It starts with a setting of place. It gives a feel of the busy city as seen by its children in personal stories of exploration and activities. The descriptions of family, playmates and adult friends are interwoven with incidents and experiences during those years. Here are the simple pleasures discovered day by day and year by year in life centered around the business of being children and making the most of it. Those yesterdays come alive as one girl's parents and siblings are introduced and described. The writer's own reflections lead to a summary of the end of World War II. That war had finished the time of growing up. The times of childhood and adolescent years was shaped and fused by that war. In the end it broke down time and place and left the children of the Great Depression in an adult world, ready to face the oncoming host of Baby Boomers. See in this book why the Depression children learned about money. If adults inhabited a world where salaries of fathers (and perhaps very occasionally mothers) came sometimes in the form of scrip and bus tokens, so be it. Parents might need tokens to get to work, but the children could turn tokens into cash, at a time when a penny spent at the local Mom and Pop store could yield a handful of candy. If Mother was having a baby, it was only part of life that the children walked over to the nearby hospital, unaccompied, to vivit the maternity nursery. Foreseen is forewarned. If hoboes could wander at will singing the songs of the railroads, it was clear, at least to six or seven year olds, that they could disappear for several hours without telling of their plans. What if it turned Dad frantic trying to find two happy adventurers watching Shirley Temple at the nearby movie house. If any friend was so fortunate as to get one whole dollar for a birthday, it was taken for granted it was part of a seven year old friends mission to accompany her to the postoffice just up the street to open a postal savings account. This episode had the blessing of adults since learning to save was considered vital by parents. And the post office was only one block away. After such early tryouts, by ten or eleven the whole city, from downtown museums, to distant swimming pools, to Comiskey Park belonged to the intrepid...

How long is Serendipity?

Serendipity by Regina Milligan is 219 pages long, and a total of 56,721 words.

This makes it 74% the length of the average book. It also has 69% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Serendipity Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 9 minutes to read Serendipity aloud.

What Reading Level is Serendipity?

Serendipity 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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