Books...Who Reads Books Anymore?

[Tse Moana]

Originally Posted by wolf

I had the same problem in 4th grade, especially since I was reading "grown up" books. Like Willard.

I did similar. In our school, we had group reading regularly and then all kids at the same level (not necessarily same grade) would sit together with an adult and read aloud in turn. By the time I was about 8 I was in the top level (9) and remained there for a while before they decided to let me read on my own. That's when I picked the big Jules Verne book out of the closet and read 20.000 Miles Under the Sea and Journey to the Centre of the Earth. That was also the period that I really got into getting five books out of the library every week (that was the maximum allowed amount of books to take) and have them all read before the week had passed. And then I had to wait until the library truck came again (our town's not big enough to have a permanent library so we get a mobile one).