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The big problem is just this kind of gigantic piece, of kids reading less and liking it less and so getting worse at it. It’s kind of this terrible spiral: Since they’re not so good at it they do less of it, get worse at it, do less of it. And it’s really what I discovered five, six years ago when I started the ‘Guys Read’ thing.

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I remember telling my second-graders the basic ‘Metamorphosis’ story, saying, like, ‘What about – what if a guy woke up one morning and he was a bug? Wouldn’t that be weird?’ And they loved that. And I think that was the trigger that made me think, like, ‘Oh man, here’s my audience. They’re just a lot shorter than I ever thought they might be.’

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I remember telling my second-graders the basic ‘Metamorphosis’ story, saying, like, ‘What about – what if a guy woke up one morning and he was a bug? Wouldn’t that be weird?’ And they loved that. And I think that was the trigger that made me think, like, ‘Oh man, here’s my audience. They’re just a lot shorter than I ever thought they might be.’

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