What A Life! takes a truly fresh approach to making reading pleasurable and motivating. ESL students develop reading skills such as skimming and scanning, learn new vocabulary and enjoy reading about the lives of some of them most inspiration figures of all time. The biographies match all interest and cover subjects as diverse as history, politics, art and entertainment, athletics, and humanities. Some famous figures include Billie Holiday, Muhammad Ali, Gandhi, Princess Diana, and Shakespeare. The first book in the series is for beginning ESL students.