title: Social Readers: Promoting Reading in the 21st Century
author: Leslie B. Preddy
description: Here is a resource for librarians, classroom and reading teachers, and administrators, providing ideas for interactive projects to encourage reading. Author Preddy is a middle-school library media specialist, and based on a reading-intervention program at her school, the book promotes the idea of making reading into a social activity using the Three Rs (reading, relationships, and role models). More than 50 projects, ranging from book clubs and bookmark contests to virtual author visits, are described. Each project description provides cost, length of planning time, supplies, and details for implementation along with samples and forms. The final section, which covers ways to use technology to promote books, is surprisingly short. Overall, however, this is a good how-to resource for the novice and a refresher for the veteran. --Carol Sue Harless
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  [Chapter 1](part0004.html#3Q280-c429dc54d8ff47e8b4c506fe670d9421)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 2](part0005.html#4OIQ0-c429dc54d8ff47e8b4c506fe670d9421)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 3](part000