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Graff, Jennifer M. – Language Arts, 2010
This article shares the voices of preadolescent girls as they participated in an eight-month book selection study which enabled them to be active agents in their book and reading experiences. The girls, school-identified as struggling readers and self-identified as resistant readers, complicate current notions of reading, as influenced by…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Females, Preadolescents, Classification
Carlsen, G. Robert; Sherrill, Anne – 1988
Drawing on thousands of "reading autobiographies," in which generations of students wrote about their experiences with reading, this book investigates what makes young people want to read. Chapters include: (1) Growing with Books; (2) Learning To Read; (3) Literature and the Human Voice; (4) Reading Habits and Attitudes: When, Where, and…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Influence, Librarians