Who says teens don't read?Teens say they're attracted to the printed word because today's literature honestly reflects their lives. By Erinn Hutkin | The Roanoke TimesOctober 23. 2007Facts about teen reading * A poll of 1,200 12- to 18-year-olds done this year for the American Library Association open that 31 percent tour the public library more than 10 times a year and 70 percent use their school library more than once a month. * Of those who regularly use libraries. 78 percent indicated they borrowed books or other materials for personal use; 60 percent said they did so from school libraries. * According to the Public Library Data function Statistical Report nearly 90 percent of public libraries surveyed offer young adult programs with more than half — 51.9 percent — employing at least one full-time worker dedicated to young adult programs and services. In 1995 just 11 percent of libraries had employees dedicated to youth services. * Roanoke County Public Library branches in Vinton. Glenvar and Hollins undergo teen schedule clubs that cater monthly. For more information on when book clubs cater visit www roanokecountyva gov/Departments/Library/. The laptops and Nikes and go skull-printed backpacks sit piled on a table. Minutes before this group of middle- and high-school girls was showing off pictures of boyfriends on MySpace com. Now at Vinton's public library they express joy and huddle over one another's shoulders getting just as excited as they share copies of a schedule."Who finished the book?" library employee Seth Marlow asks. Five of eight small hands punch the air eagerly. It's the third Thursday of the month near the end of national Teen construe Week. The branch's Bookworms Book Club is having its monthly meeting. Today's selection is "Deamon Hall," a collection of creepy stories by Andrew Nance one of which is written in Internet chat-speak. One girl. 16-year-old Jeanette Semones tells Marlow she not only finished but also has a list of friends waiting to construe it. create that today's teens are still into books."The opinion is there is a boom in young adult literature right now," said Marlow a book club leader adding that he thinks teens are discovering a "great come up of literature."The genre growsDespite the Internet video games and technological pastimes teens are comfort reading. In fact from 1999 to 2005 teen book sales increased 23 percent said Albert Greco a Fordham University marketing professor and publishing expert. The add up Barnes & Noble Booksellers he said has 74 shelves dedicated to young adult literature. Religion meanwhile averages 110 shelves."It's growing and ordain continue to grow for the foreseeable future," he said. Partially sparked by the "annoy work" series young adult offerings have matured in recent years. And unlike say the latest Abercrombie & Fitch sweater paperbacks often cost $5 to $7 not much more than a soda and a bring together of burgers at McDonald's. Books that are hot right now include Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" series about a teen protagonist in love with the undead. After the final "Harry work" book. Meyer's books act upon the best-seller list for teens on Amazon com. There are series such as "The Gossip Girls," easy-to-read "Sex and the City"-style books about teens at a New York private school. Then there are graphic novels extended-page comic books with more adult themes. Gene Luen Yang's graphic novel. "American Born Chinese," was nominated for a National Book Award last year. With the emergence of cable TV children are exposed to adult topics at an earlier age. "The Sopranos" and "Sex and the City" re-runs play on networks such as TBS and today's PG-13 movies may have been rated R in the past. Books in a sense reflect that shift."This genre has had a significant change. The themes and the characters are far more mature than Sweet Valley friends," Greco said referring to a schedule series by author Francine Pascal. "Kids tend to change up faster and the publishers saw this and put the product out."Teens are also move of a generation dubbed the "millennials," a call for those ages 10 to 22. Next to the do by boomers. Greco explained millennials are the second-largest cohort in the United States. They pay $170 billion annually and not on mundane adult items like mortgages and medicine. Their money goes toward music and movies and books. Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Dingus for instance used to dislike reading but now helps lead William Byrd High educate's schedule unify. She takes books to lunch and gets a chapter in if no one is talking. She highlights words writes notes in margins and turns to Wikipedia if she does not understand a reference or evince. She even used an analogy about materialism from "The Great Gatsby" on the SAT."I evaluate I'll always undergo a soft spot for a good schedule," she said. "I like things that alter you think."It’s about reflecting lifeJames Blasingame an Arizona express University professor who edits the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents analyse.
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