Good schools have librarians who run reading challenges, lead book groups, set up shadowing groups, produce book lists, mount displays, set up blogs, organise Book weeks and author events, along with a whole panoply of book related activities to introduce students to the best of Young Adult fiction.
One of the activities hosted by GCS, which started at the beginning of 2012, is the Three Million Books Challenge, an impressive reading challenge led by Superintendent Maurice Green of Greensboro, N.C.
Pupils aged 11 to 16 are not reading challenging enough books at secondary school, according to research.
Scottish secondary school pupils are not reading challenging enough books that are appropriate for their age, according to a literacy study.
You may not know this, but by reading challenging and difficult books, you can expand your vocabulary.
Between Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years Eve/Day, people's challenge books reading tends to be more sporadic in times when they finish.
Of course, it's worthwhile to read challenging books and books about weighty subjects, but I also make sure to read plenty of books just because I want to read them.
They need to read challenging books in a subject in which they are interested".
But for many people, choosing the best book-reading app is a challenge, especially for iPhone users, because of the wealth of choices in the App Store from Apple.
