Being Jack

A powerful story of triumph over adversity. Main boy character Jack is a popular football player at school. He is keen to make a start at the activity week in Snowdonia, but when tragedy strikes his world is upended. An accident on the mountain leaves him paralysed in both legs and unable to walk. Confined to a wheelchair, Jack faces the toughest fight of his life. Being Jack is part of the Reluctant Reader Teenage Fiction series, published by Ransom Publishing, a specialist publisher for reluctant and struggling readers. The Reluctant Reader Teenage Fiction books offer dramatic, shorter stories (just 120pp each) for readers who may find longer books too daunting, but who still want fast-paced, inspiring stories. Being Jack is ideal for reluctant readers aged 13 years and up, with a reading age of 10 years and up.