It takes the average reader 4 hours and 56 minutes to read What Happened to Paula: An Unsolved Death and the Danger of American Girlhood by Katherine Dykstra
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A People Best Book of Summer A New York Times Most Anticipated Book of the Summer A riveting investigation into a cold case asks how much control women have over their bodies and the direction of their lives. July 1970. Eighteen-year-old Paula Oberbroeckling left her house in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Four months later, her remains were discovered just beyond the mouth of a culvert overlooking the Cedar River. Her homicide has never been solved. Fifty years cold, Paula’s case had been mostly forgotten when journalist Katherine Dykstra began looking for answers. A woman was dead. Why had no one been...
What Happened to Paula: An Unsolved Death and the Danger of American Girlhood by Katherine Dykstra is 293 pages long, and a total of 74,129 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 45 minutes to read What Happened to Paula: An Unsolved Death and the Danger of American Girlhood aloud.
What Happened to Paula: An Unsolved Death and the Danger of American Girlhood is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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