This volume is part of 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. Written by Special Needs teachers, titles are appropriate for reading age 6-7, 7-8, 8-9 or 9-10, and are colour-coded accordingly. The Youth Fiction selection offers stories about the issues, dramas and challenges of being young. They are designed to be accessible both in layout and content, and deal with issues with which teenagers and young adults can associate.

 

 

This book features in the following series: Livewire, Livewire Youth Fiction .

There are 21 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 1998 by Hodder Arnold .