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How far do you go to get students to read?

Ask your pupils what would make them more likely to read a novel, and they might well say, “one that has us in it”. (Of course they might not – a whole generation of school pupils were brought up on Jennings and Bunter – both wholly unrealistic from the point of view of the overwhelming majority [...]