Martine Mccutcheon - Livewire Real Lives Author:Sandra Woodcock, The Basic Skills Agency 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 in... more »terest 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. Martine McCutcheon's story is one of achievement against the odds. Find out about Martine's ambition and her resilience, despite a difficult childhood. Her versatility is shown through her success as a soap star, singer and a stage star.« less