Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Level 5 Penguin Reader

Rachel Joyce

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PENGUIN GROUP USA
12 March 2024

Family & home stories (Children's&YA); Educational: English language: readers & reading schemes; Personal & social issues: death & bereavement (Children's&YA); Languages & ESL; English as a Second Language; English as a Second Language

Series: Penguin Readers

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reading series, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign language.

With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction.

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a Level 5 Reader, is B1 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing present perfect continuous, past perfect, reported speech and second conditional. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly.

Harold Fry lives a quiet, ordinary life in England. But when he gets a phone call and learns that his old friend Queenie Hennessey is dying, he decides to post her a letter to her home 500 miles away. As he walks to the post box, Harold begins to think about his past and his family. He decides on walking until he reaches Queenie.

By: Rachel Joyce
Imprint: PENGUIN GROUP USA
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 90g
ISBN: 9780241636886
ISBN 10: 0241636884
Series: Penguin Readers
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 12 March 2024
Recommended Age: From 12 to 17 years
Audience: ELT/ESL , Primary & secondary/elementary & high school , Young adult , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Children's (6-12)
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rachel Joyce is the author of the Sunday Times and international bestsellers The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Perfect, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, The Music Shop, Miss Benson's Beetle and a collection of interlinked short stories, A Snow Garden & Other Stories. Her new novel, Maureen Fry & the Angel of the North is out now. The film of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry will be released on 28 April 2023. Rachel's books have been translated into thirty-six languages. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book prize and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Rachel was awarded the Specsavers National Book Awards 'New Writer of the Year' in December 2012 and shortlisted for the 'UK Author of the Year' 2014. Rachel has also written over twenty original afternoon plays and adaptations of the classics for BBC Radio 4, including all the Bronte novels. She moved to writing after a long career as an actor, performing leading roles for the RSC, the National Theatre and Cheek by Jowl. She lives with her family in Gloucestershire.