Written by experienced special needs teachers, and fully assessed by The Basic Skills Agency to ensure accessibility in both layout and content, the "Livewire: Real Lives" series features personalities from sport, film and music, politics and history. The Livewire Real Lives series provides stimulating reading materials with a teenage/adult interest level for those with reading ages below ten or for adult students learning English as a foreign language. Facts and photographs sustain the interest of the beginner reader. The books are subtly colour-coded for the appropriate 'reading age' and have superb photographs throughout. Linford Christie is one of the finest athletes in the world. Find out about his best achievements and his rise to fame.

 

 

This book features in the following series: Livewire, Livewire Real Lives, Real Lives .

There are 32 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2002 by Hodder Education .

This book has the following chapters: 1 Early Life 2 Winning 3 In Trouble 4 Rivals 5 Big Business 6 Back on Track 7 'I Can't Go On' 8 Will he, Won't he? 9 Atlanta 10 After Atlanta