Evan found school work hard and couldn’t find anything he was really good at. This all changes when he is introduced to a smelly dog named Mutt. This is an incredibly accessible series for reluctant readers – pitched at a low reading age of between 6 and 7. The First Flight collection offers a variety of different text types including fiction, non-fiction, plays and poetry, so is well placed to cater for many interests and abilities to absorb text. Stories range from shipwrecks, surfing and ghosts to monsters, robots and aliens on earth, plus non-fiction topics include rollercoasters, animals and the biggest lies ever.