Penguin Readers Level 3: The Summer I Turned Pretty (ELT Graded Reader)

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 Summer I Turned Pretty, a Level 3 Reader, is A2 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing first conditional, past continuous and present perfect simple for general experience. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear on most pages.

Every year, Belly goes on holiday with her mom and brother to Susannah’s beach house. Susannah has two sons, Jeremiah and Conrad. Belly has always loved Conrad, but he thinks of her like a little sister. But Belly is 15 now, and this is the summer that she has turned pretty…

Author Biography

Jenny Han is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before series and The Summer I Turned Pretty series.

She is the creator and co-showrunner of The Summer I Turned Pretty series on Prime Video. She’s an executive producer on the films To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, To All the Boys- P.S. I Still Love You, and To All the Boys- Always and Forever, all on Netflix. She’s also the creator and co-showrunner of XO Kitty, a To All the Boys spinoff series. Her books have been published in more than thirty languages.