title: Nir! Read It, Write It, Draw It - The Best Gift Ever - Level 1: (Hands on Reading, Writing and Drawing) (Now I'm Reading!: Level 1)
author:  Nora Gaydos 
description: Nora Gaydos has more than ten years of experience teaching kindergarten, first grade, third grade, and fourth grade. She has a comprehensive understanding of how beginning readers develop from pre-readers to independent readers. As a teacher, she was inspired to create the<i>Now I'm Reading</i>! program after seeing firsthand how children learn to read. Her goal was to build a series that was fun, motivating, and "just right" for beginning readers. Visit www.nowimreading.com to learn more about Nora Gaydos and the<i>Now I'm Reading!</i>series. &#160;
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  **GIRLS**
  
   **UNDER**
  
   **PRESSURE**
  
  It's great when you have a best friend. It can be even better when you have
  _two_ best friends. Ellie, Magda and Nadine are in Year Nine and they make a
  fantastic threesome. I invented them in the space of half an hour!
  
  I was staying at my daughter, Emma's flat, and she was patiently teaching me
  how to use her computer. I am a total technophobe and a very slow learner. I
  found myself getting very upset and irritable as I struggled with her
  unfamiliar keyboard, making all sorts of silly mistakes.
  
  I decided to distract myself by making up a new story. I wanted to write about
  teenagers for a change. I typed _Three girls_ on Emma's computer. I thought
  about my first girl. I liked the name Ellie so I typed that too.
  
  I decided she would tell the story. I wanted her to be lively an