By Julia Escobar
FROM: The Argonaut

Since the late 1970s, the percentage of 12th graders who said they read a book or magazine almost every day for pleasure has dropped from 60% to 16%, according to a study published by the American Psychology Association.

With online schooling becoming the norm and COVID-19 creating an even larger socioeconomic gap between books and teens, it’s a problem that needs to be addressed.

Teen Readers Society, a new Santa Monica-based nonprofit, is passionate about changing young adults’ reading habits. The nonprofit group has created the space and initiatives to get teenagers to fall back in love with reading through engaging programs and marketing.

Judit Langh, a mother of two teenagers, founded Teen Readers Society after she began to notice this lack of engagement with books for fun within her own household. Her daughters weren’t reading books for pleasure the way they used to when they were young children, even though they’re very bright and politically engaged individuals.

This prompted Langh to begin her endeavor to learn about this concerning decline, and eventually be a part of the change. Read Rest of Article Here