To ensure accessibility and readability, Hodder & Stoughton have worked with The Basic Skills Agency on "Livewire" - a series of reading material with a teenage or adult interest level for those with reading ages below 10 or for adult students learning English as a second or foreign language. It offers teenagers and adults appropriate fiction and non-fiction which is graded at reading ages 6-7, 7-8, 8-9, and 9-10. This non-fiction section, "Livewire Real Lives" provides illustrated biographies in the categories of sport, film, music, politics and history. It is designed to be accessible in layout and content and offers facts and photographs to sustain the interest of the beginner reader.

 

This book is part of a book series called Livewires .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school. This reading scheme is aimed at ELT learners.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 1999 by Hodder Arnold .

Brandon Robshaw is the author of 21 children's novels and over 60 educational books. His most recent children's novel, The Big Wish , was published by Chicken House in 2015. It was shortlisted for the James Reckitt Hull Children's Book Award 2016