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Readers for Life
Keep Your Teen Reading
By Kelly Burgess
If you loved to read as a teenager and you are familiar with today's teen literature, you know that the literary world for this age group has changed remarkably. The "young adult" category, which didn't even exist 25 or 30 years ago, brings a wealth of quality choices to readers who are not quite ready for adult books but are too mature for traditional books for older children.
In spite of this plethora of exciting literary choices, a crisis grows in the world of teenage readers: Even the most avid of them seems to drop the reading habit as they enter high school – sometimes as early as middle school. While there may not be much that can be done about it in the short term, it's something that shouldn't be ignored either. Fortunately, there are strategies for making sure this temporary aversion doesn't become permanent.
