It has its own language, its own heroes and its own competitions and is now an Olympic sport! It’s a pretty cool pastime, with some pretty cool tricks, rocket air, wallride and darkslide take months if not years to perfect, with 80 million of us having a go! Skateboarding is from our dynamic new Buzz reader series, of high interest non-fiction books, designed to appeal to older or struggling readers. Includes photographs with the wow factor, accessible fact-packed text with edgy appeal that doesn’t overwhelm. Skateboarding will switch on the reading bug, because it’s a real page-turner

When he was an adult, Paul Stevenson discovered he was dyslexic. He had been fortunate in finding his own way of overcoming this challenge and is now passionate about making reading accessible with high interest topics.