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Originally Posted by Patricia
It also helps if you can find a book that the boy wants to read.
I briefly had a summer job in literacy training, and I would occasionally find that young men who hated reading would like Terry Pratchett, J K Rowling, or Star Trek books.
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I do remember a friend of my parents giving me a box of books that their son used to have. Inside it were All the Star trek books that James Blish had written and Hardy Boys and Alfred Hitchcock Mysteries. I do remember devouring all the books in the box. I read because I enjoyed to read. I enjoyed what I was reading. I was not forced or made to read.
I think the reason a lot of kids do not like to read is that parents did not instill a desire to read before the big bad schools tool the enjoyment of books away from them. The way a lot fo schools/teachers force books upon students and then the way they are forced to dissect them and write papers on them and such creates a strong dislike to reading if the desire to read is not already there. I got my desire before school was able to take take it away.