These 10 Read-Alikes Go Beyond 'Great Expectations'

by NCTE & SLJ Reviews
| Filed in News & Features

If the prospect of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations for your students looks dim, the NCTE and SLJ has curated a list of books with similar themes that provide greater context or recast Pip's story into a more accessible format, such as the highly graphic manga version included here. 


 

If the prospect of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations for your students looks grim, the NCTE and SLJ has curated a list of books with similar themes, that provide greater context, or recast Pip's story into a more accessible format, such as the graphic manga version included here.

Avi. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. Scholastic. ISBN ‎ 9780545477116.

Boulley, Angeline. Firekeeper's Daughter. Holt. ISBN 9781250766564.

Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Crystal S. Chan, adapt. Udon/Manga Classics. ISBN 9781927925324.

Gansworth, Eric. If I Ever Get Out of Here. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine. ‎ ISBN 978-0545417303.

Noah, Trevor. It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime. Delacorte. ISBN 9780525582168.

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Oshiro, Mark. Each of Us a Desert. Tor Teen. ISBN 9781250169211.

Pratchett, Terry. Dodger. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780062009494.

Reynolds, Jason. Ghost. Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy. ISBN 9781481450157.

Schwartz, Virginia Frances. Among the Fallen. Holiday House. ISBN 9780823441020.

Yang, Kelly. Front Desk. Scholastic.  ISBN 9781338157796.

 

 

 

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