Never Too Late
Never Too Late: Starting a Sport at Fourteen. An Eiken Grade 2 layered reader for teens who feel "behind" in sport. Kenta, fourteen, has sat out PE for years, has grown eight centimetres in a year, and feels clumsy, until a new classmate takes him to a climbing gym. Story chapters follow his first year and a half in sport, from a beginner wall to his first race and a summer when he wants to give up, with short sourced fact boxes on growth spurts, the relative age effect, knee pain in growing athletes, food, rest and sleep. "Coach Zoltan says" boxes add real advice from Zoltan, who started skating at four, became his home country's ice skating champion in 1991 and skated in Holiday on Ice for seven years. Every English sentence has a natural Japanese translation underneath. Each chapter has a word list, a quiz and a Grade 2 style task: summary, essay, reading, listening or interview. The book ends with full exam practice. General education only, not medical advice. Kenta and his friends are fictional; levels are the author's estimate, not endorsed by Eiken.
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