Every maintained secondary school in England will have the chance to choose 20 free books for their library as part of a £600,000 initiative to encourage more teenage boys to read for pleasure. Schools will be able to select the books from a new “Boys Into Books” list commissioned by the Department for Education and Skills and created by the School Library Association (SLA). The initiative is designed to encourage 11 to 14 year old boys to re-ignite their passion for reading. It follows research indicating that while many boys read for pleasure at primary school this good habit tends to fade after the age of 11, resulting in a significant “reading gap” between boys and girls in their early teens.
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