A 12-year-old boy, who is admittedly not a reader, decides he wants to start reading The Hunger Games after watching the first movie with his father. When he asks the school librarian for the novel, she refuses to give it to him because it his above his reading level. Instead of punishing his child for reading, the father buys him all three books in the series. Talk about parent of the year!

In this decade, reading is more important than ever before. Children are obsessed with their iPads, phones, Fortnite, and hundreds of other types of digitized media/electronics. We can’t put down a non-reader’s first interest in books because then, they’ll think they aren’t cut out for reading at all. Discouraging a child from reading, especially as a literature educator, is all kinds of wrong. Luckily, this tween has a parent who’d prefer to help his child get through the book than not have him read it at all.