I am aging myself here, but my first fascination with reading came rom the Tom Swift, Jr. books. That led me to Juls Verne, Asimov, required school reading of Mark Twain,etc., and then to books that were bothering squares, like "Catcher in the Rye", and "Slaughterhouse Five"
On 'Sweet Valley High,' the Great Retweening and Why Boys Won't Read
I am aging myself here, but my first fascination with reading came rom the Tom Swift, Jr. books. That led me to Juls Verne, Asimov, required school reading of Mark Twain,etc., and then to books that were bothering squares, like "Catcher in the Rye", and "Slaughterhouse Five"