The National Year of Reading campaign and networking site
Piczo ran a survey entitled Read Up, Fed Up which involved 1,340 children aged 11 to 14. Harry Potter
featured on both the most and least loved reads lists.
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Honor Wilson-Fletcher, director of the National Year of Reading insisted: "We should all appreciate that many young people are reading creatively - widely yet selectively.
"Teens are challenging our traditional definitions of reading as being all about books but reading enthusiastically nonetheless."
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Putting the best face on the findings, Schools Minister Jim Knight added: "It is vital that young people have the opportunity to read widely.
"It is wonderful that 80 per cent of the teenagers surveyed write their own stories and keep up-to-date with current affairs by using sites like BBC Online."
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Most-loved reads
1) Heat
2) Bliss
3) Song lyrics online
4) Computer game cheats online
5) Self-made online blog or fan fiction
6) The Harry Potter series
7) Anne Frank's Diary
8) Film scripts
9) Books by Anthony Horowitz
10) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
11) BBC Online
12) Books by Louise Rennison
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Least-liked reads
1) Homework
2) Shakespeare
3) Books of more than 100 pages
4) Articles about skinny celebs in magazines
5) Books which are on the syllabus
6) Encyclopaedias and dictionaries
7) The Beano
8) Music scores,
9) The Harry Potter series
10) Maps and directions
11) Facebook
12) Financial Times
13) Anything in another language
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