Reading takes you on adventures

Kate Hulsey, a sixth grader at Pin Oak Middle School, says the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew hooked her on reading.

Reading is important because it can take me on many adventures, and I don’t even have to leave my couch. If I am doing a science-fair project, and I don’t have good Internet services, I can just get a book about my project. I know not all reading is fun, but if I couldn’t read or didn’t like to read, I couldn’t do most jobs.

I didn’t like to read until I found the Hardy Boys series by Franklin W. Dixon and the Nancy Drew series by Carolyn Keene; ever since, I loved reading books. You don’t even need a book to read. Here are some examples of things I read without a book: news, magazines, T-shirts, calendars, notes, computers, pictures and road signs.

Reading is good for other things too, like building something or making a recipe. Not all books can take you on adventures, but reading is still important to me. Here are some examples of books I like or that I am interested in: Percy Jackson books and The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan, My Sister the Vampire series by Sienna Mercer, Geronimo Stilton and Thea Stilton books by Edizioni Piemme, Poison Apple and Rotten Apple books by Scholastic, and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.

A lot of books are made into movies, and to me, they are really different than the books. I know that they are trying to make the movies a lot like the books, but they aren’t doing a good job. Most movies are like the books, but not all. I really think people should read the books first, and not just assume the movies are like the books. That’s why I think reading is better, but that’s just me.

That is everything I need to say on adventures in reading. I hope you have lots of adventures in the next book you read!

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