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Peer reviewedBoraks, Nancy; Hoffman, Amy; Bauer, David – Reading Psychology, 1997
Surveys 315 fourth- and fifth-grade inner city and suburban children from Virginia and Ohio about their "most favorite" book, with titles categorized by literary genre. Finds little overlap with individual titles but emergence of some genre patterns--girls favoring realistic fiction and boys selecting fantasy; inner city children…
Descriptors: Fiction, Gender Issues, Inner City, Intermediate Grades
