Livewire Investigates - Livewire Investigates Author:Sandra Woodcock, Iris Howden, Andy Croft, Kathy Galashan, Henry Billings, Melissa Billings 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 an... more »d non-fiction which is graded at reading ages 6-7, 7-8, 8-9, and 9-10. This non-fiction section, "Livewire Investigates" provides accounts of careers, hobbies, sports and even extreme sports. It is designed to be accessible in layout and content and offers facts and pictures to sustain the interest of the beginner reader. Each title has been colour-coded for the appropriate reading age.« less