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Carter, Betty; Abrahamson, Richard F. – Indiana Media Journal, 1994
Discusses research on young adults' reading interests, their nonfiction reading interests, interest in nonfiction across ability levels, sex differences in nonfiction reading interest, pleasure versus curriculum, and the role of teachers and librarians. (RS)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, Junior High Schools, Library Role
Peer reviewedBenton, Peter – Oxford Review of Education, 1995
Surveys the reading and viewing habits of British teenagers. Discovers that, although U.S. horror fiction (R. L. Stine, Stephen King) tops the lists, a wide diversity exists among the less popular authors. Reveals marked gender differences in amount of time spent viewing videos, television, and computer games. (MJP)
Descriptors: Computer Games, Foreign Countries, Independent Reading, Individualized Reading
