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‘Girl’ is a short story by the Antigua-born writer Jamaica Kincaid (born 1949). In this very short story, which runs to just a couple of pages, a mother offers advice to her teenage daughter about how to behave like a proper woman.
May 22, 2024 · Reading can have numerous benefits for teenagers. While we often focus on attainment outcomes, reading also helps teens develop their self-understanding and understanding of others, and can support their emotional wellbeing at a particularly tumultuous period of life.
Jan 15, 2020 · Taylor does not appear to see the irony when, just a few pages later, Zoe Steadman-Milne, formerly literature producer at Bath Festivals, gives her answer to why women read so much fiction – in the UK, the US, and Canadian fiction markets they account for 80 per cent of sales – and why they appear to make up the majority of literary ...
Sep 27, 2018 · Girls read more than boys in just about every developed country, and it's a big reason they have better educational outcomes.
- Alia Wong
May 28, 2021 · Why Is Reading Really Considered A Girl's Issue, And Is That Such A Bad Thing? It’s a truth universally acknowledged that, in the vast majority of cases, women read more than men. In fact, according to a recent survey by YouGov, women are as much as four times more likely to read more than 50 books a year (9% of women vs. 2% of men.) As such ...
Apr 16, 2013 · Here are five reasons this book has become such a hit: 1) It's dark. Chick lit this isn't, but at the same time it's not too dark. It essentially asks the brutally honest question: 'how...
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Nearly 1 in 2 children and young people who identify their gender as other than boy or girl say that they struggle to see themselves in what they read compared with 1 in 3 boys and girls. Half (49.9%) of boys who don’t enjoy reading agree that reading on screen is cooler than reading a print book.
