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Reading more of a pleasure than requirement for teenagers
Boyd High student Deloice Seals, 15, (center) reads a celebrity news magazine Tuesday at the McKinney Memorial Public Library. Deloice, seen here with her brothers Christian, 8, (left) and Devantra, 12, said she spends two or three days each week at the library. The brothers said they prefer reading “Superman” and other superhero comics. This photo and more are available through MyCapture at www.scntx.com. Photo: Robert James Hughes | McKinney Courier-Gazette
BY STEFANIE WHITE, McKinney Courier-Gazette
Some high school students are required to read during the summer, but Helen Talley said more teens are choosing to read on their own.
“Actually, I think they are reading more for pleasure during the summer,” Talley said. “It seems once school goes out, the shelves are empty.”
Talley, McKinney Memorial Public Library young adult coordinator, said the library has had a few requests on required summer reading books.
To help prepare for the requests for required summer reading books, Talley said the library tries to find out what books are required.
“We try to find out at the end of the school year and we try to have extra copies,” Talley said. “We try to have at least 10 copies.”
Along with required summer reading books, Talley said the library also gets several requests for recreational reading materials.
“There’s a book coming out in August called ‘The Eclipse,’ and they’ve been asking about that book since the last one [in the trilogy] came out,” Talley said. “Another one, this is also a third one, is called ‘The Titan’s Curse.’ That one is big. I get a lot of kids coming in and looking for it. It’s never on the shelf.”
Talley said there are other kinds of books that are popular, both for teenage girls and boys.
“There are some good girl books that are very popular,” Talley said. “But we do get a lot of fantasy.”
Graphic novels, which are like comic books, are also very popular among teens.
“In the summer, sometimes the shelves are empty,” Talley said.
Deloice Seals, McKinney Boyd High School sophomore, is one student who had to read over the summer. She had to read “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” for Advanced Placement English.
“I’m done with it,” Seals said. “I just need to do the written part.”
Seals said the book was a fairly easy read and finished it within a week. She thought the book was an OK book to read.
“It’s pretty short,” Seals said. “It’s alright, I guess.”
This isn’t the first time Seals had to read over the summer. When she entered high school, she had to read “A Raisin in the Sun.”
While Seals said she is okay with reading over the summer, she tries to get it done as soon as possible.
“I read it on the first week,” Seals said.
For Maricella Singleterry, reading this summer wasn’t an option but a personal choice.
“I’m here every day,” Maricella said. “I like anime and Lemony Snicket’s and a lot of chapter books.”
Maricella, an Evans Middle School eighth-grader, said she decided to read this summer because most of her friends are out of town and she just loves to read.
“It’s just because most of my friends are out for summer,” she said. “And I’m a bookworm.”
Contact staff writer Stefanie White at swhite@acnpapers.com. To post comments online, access this story at www.scntx.com.
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