Top Ten Reasons Your Middle-Grade Kid Needs to Read

1. C. S. Lewis, "We read to know we are not alone."

2. Positive input brings positive output. Choose books wisely.

3. Middle-grade kids "read to know."

4. Imagination can be channeled in a productive direction and encourage the reader to reach for the stars.

5. "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." Joseph Addison

6. Want to improve conversation and understanding? Books offer more than LOL, BRB, TTYL.

7. Ask Charlotte--reading saves lives. Terrific!

8. Dr. Suess, "Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living."

9. A great story improves concentration skills.

10. Psalm 119:105 Who doesn't need a lamp for our feet and a light for the path?

Don't know where to begin? A verse or three a day from the Old Testament book Proverbs. Oh... and I can highly recommend the series The Crumberry Chronicles as well as Get Off the Struggle Bus. (Insert wink emoji here)