It takes the average reader 4 hours and 52 minutes to read Wild Boy by Jill Dawson
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In post-Revolution France, a child is discovered in the forests near Aveyron where he seems to have been living wild for seven years. Now 12 years old, the Wild Boy, as he becomes known, is captured, put on public display as a freak, and finally handed over to the ambitious, repressed Doctor Itard, who is charged with studying the Wild Boy, who he names Victor, and trying to discover the secrets of his strange, secret life. But Victor soon becomes a pawn in the raging debate about nature vs nurture, and Itard's attempts to educate and civilise him bear little fruit. Instead, Victor seems...
Wild Boy by Jill Dawson is 291 pages long, and a total of 73,041 words.
This makes it 98% the length of the average book. It also has 89% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 39 minutes to read Wild Boy aloud.
Wild Boy is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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