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I loved Lord of the Flies. It was class reading in the second year (12 years old). We read the book and also saw the film in class. I think that was a really nice way to do it. Many of the books we covered in secondary school Eng Lit had a movie version available and we usually got that alongside.
Of course it helped that our English teacher was a clever, witty man who understood the teenage mind :P
I really think we push reading too much on kids though. It can get built up into this big thing and end up just being work and that can put youngsters off reading for pleasure. I saw that happen with one of my nieces when she was in primary school. From a family of readers and having shown all the normal interest in pretending to read and looking at books, she went to primary school and they systematically put the kid off reading. Ended up with her falling slightly behind in reading and needing extra coaching. Caught back up again in no time, but was another few years before she got into reading as any kind of pleasurable activity.
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