Out to Work - Backstreet Author:Helen Orme, David Orme Backstreet has classrooms, desks and teachers but it's no ordinary school. At Backstreet, lessons are learnt the hard way. Set in a special school, "Out to Work" is part of a new fiction series that follows the experiences of boys and girls who have been excluded from mainstream education. These gritty and realistic streetwise stories will reson... more »ate with teens and young adults, but are carefully written to cater for a reading age of 5-6. The low word counts and controlled vocabulary provides access for even the most reluctant and struggling of readers, while the edgy black and white illustrations support the narrative. In "Out to Work", the Backstreet pupils get to go on work placements. Emma reckons shop work is boring so she teams up with Josh who's building a patio with his dad. But she gets more than she's bargained for when Josh pours a wheelbarrow of cement on her feet.« less