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Dear Almost Best Friends and Colleagues, I have to say that I have the privilege to work at an all boys' private school. I see the boys grow from about 10 years to 18. The ones who begin reading ANYTHING like Garfield, FarSide, Choose Your Own Aventures (CYOA to us) or Animorphs do not develop gelatin for brains. As seniors they CAN AND DO for the most part read ANYTHING they want -- great literary classics, moldy (to me) Latin authors, EVEN dare I say it? -- THE GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD! One senior last year who reads everything Sci-Fi (at which some TYPES look askance), also read Summa Theologica-St. Thomas Aquinas! How can I NOT offer "dips and chips" to my young readers when they advance naturally to greater and greater feasts. (I've had to lobby at our school to keep Garfield.) Easy paperbacks, comic series and other FUN, escape-type reading is FINE at our school. It's developmental. Adults read all sorts/levels of things, and so CAN young people. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Saranne Lowrey Gans Librarian/Educator 28 years, mom 8 years Cistercian Preparatory School (a private school for 340 boys grades 5-12 in Dallas-Ft. Worth area) One Cistercian Rd. Irving, TX 75039 http://cistercian.org (Library web page available by clicking school, faculty, then my picture) sgans@cistercian.org (work) biologybook@earthlink.net (home) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Those who don't read have no advantage over those who can't."~~Mark Twain "We must never permit the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man."~~Albert Schweitzer. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. To quit LM_NET (or set-reset NOMAIL or DIGEST), send email to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST 4) SET LM_NET MAIL * Please allow for confirmation from Listserv. For LM_NET Help see: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ Archives: http://askeric.org/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/LM_NET.html See also EL-Announce for announcements from library media vendors: http://www.mindspring.com/~el-announce/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=