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 interest 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. Ronan Keating was picked to sing in Boyzone when he was only 16 years old Since then he has made a successful solo career and managed the boy band Westlife. Find out about the highs and lows of his life so far.