How long does it take to read Goal!?
The Dream Begins
Robert Rigby
Goal! by Robert Rigby takes about 4 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 42 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2005. 256 pages, about 70,400 words. Written for children.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 42 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Santiago, a young Mexican American, fulfills his dream of playing soccer when a chance encounter in inner-city Los Angeles results in a trip to England to try out for the Newcastle United soccer team.
Subjects: Newcastle United Football Club, Soccer stories, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Mexican Americans, Soccer
