Adults are reading for pleasure less often than ever. How can they encourage kids? I ’ll call her Mary. She was a bright fourth- or fifth-grader who was struggling with reading. Her deficit was not severe, and she was reading at grade level within a few months. She can read what she needs to and did well in middle and high school. But in her spare time she wouldn’t be caught dead with a book in her hands. We tried many genres: short stories, graphic novels, popular series, ch

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