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READING for pleasure is a dying pursuit among children, recent research reveals, as today's young spend up to six hours a day in front of a TV or computer screen.
They would also much prefer to pore over trashy magazines such as Heat and Bliss rather than pick up a book, according to a poll of more than 1,300 11 to 14-year-olds.See the full content of this document
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A Novel Angle On Kids' Lit
Last year's national curriculum test results showed more than a third of 14-year-old boys have a reading age of 11 or below. And a world league table recently exposed the falling read...
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