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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
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During the French Revolution a young English lawyer goes to the guillotine to save a French aristocrat, husband of the woman he loves. "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times ..." With these famous words, Charles Dickens plunges the reader into the French Revolution. From the storming of the Bastille to the relentless drop of the guillotine, Dickens vividly captures the terror and upheaval of that tumultuous period. At the center is the...
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El joven Philip Pirrip, apodado Pip, se convertirá en aprendiz de su cuñado, un pobre herrero. Pero su destino cambia al conocer a tres personas inusuales: un convicto fugitivo, una mujer trágica y una joven cautivadora. La vida de Pip se ve alterada en un instante cuando un benefactor secreto le entrega una gran suma de dinero. Pip tiene "grandes expectativas" para su nueva vida tan exitosa y rica como un joven caballero. ¿Su vida realmente ha...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
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English
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"Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most memorable characters. Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham and her beautiful...