As a middle school librarian this blog will be based on my love of reading and my will to pass along that love of reading in my students.
With that being said, you need to keep one thing in mind...middle schoolers are funny creatures. They come to middle school being burned out on reading. They have been pushed to their limit. They feel like middle school should offer them some independence, so they fight us on reading. They come to realize that we fight back. Eventually we try to find some common ground and a way to foster that life-long love of reading.
What students don't realize is that reading can be fun. I look forward to a day off to be able to do nothing but read. I have always been that way, even as a child. When I read I can see the action like a movie reel in my head. What I see is much more real and believable that what I see on TV or in a movie. I can picture any person I want as the book characters (so Ryan Reynolds seems to be the star of many books I read). Books are very customizable. You can make of them whatever you want!
As my former principal used to say, "If you can read you can do anything!" It is true. Readers can do anything and be anything they want, even if it is just within the cover of the book that they are currently reading.
