Driver's Seat - Nonfiction - (Years 7-10)

This series is aimed at Years 7-10 boys and girls (12-15-year-olds) who need simple, high-interest nonfiction to encourage them to read.

Reading level: 9 – 10 years

Features:

• Narrative nonfiction, giving interesting facts and allowing students to “know stuff” the rest of the class don’t.
• Local settings, and characters mostly the age of the reader or a bit older.
• Topics include 4WD rallying, a quarry blast, surviving a mugging, military training, volunteering, hunting, and sports & technological challenges.
• Series includes two “pick-a-path” type books with themes of bush and sea safety.
• Short sentences, paragraphs and text blocks.
• Photo illustrations that mirror the text.