Twelve Years a Slave is the extraordinary true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man living in New York State who, in 1841, was kidnapped & sold into slavery. This simplified version condenses Northup’s memoirs for students of English & is interspersed with stills from the 2013 Oscar award winning film. Level 3 (Intermediate): For students with 3+ years of English – CEF Stage B1. 1500 headwords (story: up to 10, 000 words) Scholastic ELT Secondary Readers are a series of contemporary film & TV adaptations, original teenage fiction, classic literature & biographies. Specifically targeted at teenagers learning English, they are published at five levels following a carefully graded syllabus. elt 17 secondaryelt eltreaders summer-18 sum-18