Noah Doesn't Care

Noah is the funny one. He wants to tell you how much work that is.

Three years after Noah's Letters Won't Hold Still. Noah is eleven, and the letters still don't hold still. He worked out at nine that there are two jobs for a boy who can't read at the speed everyone else reads: the one who can't do it, or the one who doesn't care. He picked the second. Then they put him in Set 3 for science — a subject he is properly good at — because the test was four pages of reading. Same test, read out loud: 88%. On paper: 31%. Same brain. Same kidney.

This is book 4 of six. The 5B Books pick up the six children from the 2B picture books three years on — same class, same six, eleven now. Each book is told in one child's own voice.

What is in the book

• Eight short chapters, written for readers aged 10–12
• Told in the first person — a child explaining himself, not an adult explaining a child
• A page for the grown-up on why the class clown is often a child protecting himself from being seen to fail, and why a reader in a test is not an advantage
• Three questions to talk about afterwards

How it works

Works on its own, and works better if you know the picture book. Dyslexia is named on the last page, for the adult — the story itself just tells you what it is like to be measured on the one thing you are bad at, and never to have been told you were allowed to ask.

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