Books with author Iris Howden

To ensure accessibility Hodder & Stoughton has worked with The Basic Skills Agency on "Livewire", a series of reading books with a teenage or adult interest level for those with a reading age below 10. Livewire Investigates is a series of thrilling accounts of dream careers, sports and extreme sports, disasters and catastrophes and strange mysteries. Ever dreamt of becoming a make-up artist Becky wins a make-over in a competition. She finds out how to get started and the type of work she could do in her dream job.

Stimulating and accessible, the titles in the LIVEWIRE series have been produced in association with The Basic Skills Agency to ensure a non-patronising approach towards the requirements of readers with special needs. They provide teenagers/adult interest level fiction and non-fiction for those with reading ages below 10, or adult students learning English as a second language. Each book is graded at one of the following reading ages: 6-7, 7-8, 8-9 or 9-10. All LIVEWIRE books are written by qualified Special Needs teachers, and are expertly assessed and subtly colour-coded for the appropriate reading age. The books in the LIVEWIRE REAL LIVES strand contain fascinating stories of popular music stars, famous Hollywood actors, TV personalities and top sports people. Find out about the extraordinary life of the world-famous freedom fighter, in REAL LIVES NELSON MANDELA.