The Reading Lives of Teens

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<p>In these changing times of global flows of media and technologies and reports of declining reading enjoyment, researchers, policymakers and educators need to engage anew with essential issues of what counts as reading, what kinds of reading matter and how to support teen reading engagement in school and out-of-school settings.</p><p>Bringing together contributions from well-known and emerging adolescent literacy researchers from different disciplinary perspectives, this edited collection consolidates contemporary research on teen¿s volitional print and digital reading, whether in school or out-of-school contexts. Section 1 of the book offers overviews of what teens are reading, Section 2 highlights community support for reading, and Section 3 shares new ways of researching teen reading. With chapters from North America, Europe, Australia, Asia and the Middle-East, the collection will offer multifaceted and complex insights into what, how and why teens read in different contexts. Ref