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How long does it take to read Where Have All the Flowers Gone? -The Diary of Molly Mackenzie Flaherty, Boston, Massachusetts, 1968?

Ellen Emerson White

Where Have All the Flowers Gone? -The Diary of Molly Mackenzie Flaherty, Boston, Massachusetts, 1968 by Ellen Emerson White takes about 3 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 3 hours 27 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2002. 188 pages, about 51,700 words. Written for children.

7 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 5 hours 45 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 27 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 9 minutes

The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

In 1968 Massachusetts, after her brother Patrick goes to fight in Vietnam, fifteen-year-old Molly records in her diary how she misses her brother, volunteers at a Veterans' Administration Hospital, and tries to make sense of the war in Vietnam and the tumultuous events in the United States. Includes historical notes.

Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile fiction, History, Brothers and sisters, Diaries, Nineteen sixties

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