My son is 9 and he is in a book club this summer. He still plays the video games but it's nice to see him reading as well.

I have my 13-year old son and 15-year old daughter read every day for at least 30 minutes during the school summer vacation. All it takes is finding something that interests them. The most important thing is that they read something.

Not enough kids read these days. I used to love reading still do..

Maximum Ride and Maze runner are awesome. I love to read, but so few people read anymore. Good, wholesome, fiction is far from dying out, but it may be on the decline

Great list! I'm not young - or a boy - but I've enjoyed many of these myself.

wish kids would read more and peel their eyes off the tv and a computer less

Anymore alex cross books or women's murder club books?

Yeah. I can't stand watching TV. I don't see the attraction to it.

I watch TV but not all the time. I totally agree with you Vic, a lot of kids today just do not have the imagination any more. It is not so much TV as that can be educational sometimes but they play on video games way to much..

I agree things on tv can be good but shouldn't be where they learn. What do you currently read?

I like YA science fiction, but I'll read nonfiction if the topic intrests me. I enjoy the e-magazine Distro as well as Smithsonian and Popular Science.

At the moment I am reading "River of Destiny" By Barbara Erskine

I wish I could find some of those old "choose your old adventure" books. I loved those when I was my son's age. Maybe that would pique his interest. (He's also in a summer reading program from school that offers incentives for reading.)

When I was young I hated to read because it was hard for me to learn 2 lanuages but as I started to get older I enjoyed it more and more. Then when I became pregnamt with my children I even read to them while they were in the womb and when they were born until they were able to read themselves. It's just now they don't like to read unless they have to and so it's very hard to get them to during the summer but I still try to get them to do it. It is sad to know that there are so many children that don't like to read. I am thankful that I least have one of my boys who enjoys reading sometimes but not as much as I do. I love reading and never go a day without reading.

I've always loved to read. The eye doctors are really surprised whenever they hear that. Apparently, they expect me to hate it because I get massive eyestrain when I read. Apparently I have mild dyslexia among my host of other eye issues. My brother hates to read, though. But as you said, Carmen, I can't go a day without reading. By the way, what languages do you speak?

I speak Spanish, still learning Italian with my daughter because she has been taking it in school for 6 years and I help her study for exams and of course English. I love learning new lanuages. They fascinate me. When I was a teen I tryed learning French but gave up. One day I'll try again. :)

Ah! Wonderful! I've always found Spanish confusing (I had a chance to try the class for 6 weeks last year), but beautiful. I have taken half a year of German, and taught myself ASL. I have an aunt who often goes to Italy as a travel blogger.

Wow! I think tha's great that you taught yourself ASL. Not too many people take that as a lanuage in school. I see it less and less in any of the schools now. As for your aunt that must be a lot of fun for her. I went to Sicily about 3years ago and I didn't like where we stayed but I did like going to Mt. Edna. Of course I had my book through the whole flight because it was a very uncomfortable flight and it was long too. At the time I was also a college student so I also had my textbooks with too. It wasn't exactly my greatest trip but the landscape was beautiful and swimmimg in the Meditarranean Sea was a lot of funny.

Oh and as for learning Spanish, it isn't as hard as people think. You say the words as they appear not like English, where some spelling of words don't make sense when you see it spelled out. :)

One of my aunt works at a school with a lot of multicultural students. She can speak Spanish a little bit. Your trip to Italy sounds amazing. I watch the bike races with my grandma, and it's always amazingly beautiful.

Italy is beautiful but I would like to go there again and visit the other areas that I didn't get to see but I wouldn't stay at the same place because it was horrible and so was the food. Not the Italy I thought it was going to be.

I have been reading since the age of four. Reading newspapers to my father at six(not understanding of course). Dated a proof reader at 18 who taught me to speed read. I have found for what it is worth, that if children are read to and then stop at an exciting part of the story they want to know the end.It is the joy of reading which makes it all worth while.Just my thoughts right or wrong.

What a brilliant idea! My 15 year old son spends ridiculous amounts of time on his games console at the expense of everything else. While I have always been an avid reader with at least one book on the go at a time I feel he is missing out (and it would improve his spelling). I'll be leaving this list on his PS3 (and emailing him a copy) and also will buy one or two of the books to take on our holiday. Thanks for the inspiration.

I think thats great. I did try that but every time I started to read there was always some conversation that had to go on. So it took a lot longer to read one book that I gave up on it. Then Itryed making a deal with my !0 year old son. I told him that we could read the book together but then he started with I'm tired can you read it all and then I'll read tomorrow but it never happen. So I stopped being the fool and let him read his own school books andhad him tell me what happened in the book so that I know he is reading it and not just turning the pages.

Thank you Mr. Patterson now I have one for you it's an ebook only "Cyberworld" by Josh Conrad. I purchased this and "Maze Runner" for a friends son and he enjoyed them both especially "Cyberworld". All the best.

Kathy

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