NATIONAL top five ‘Reads’ THE least favourite: ST BENEDICTS’ Good Readers top five reads: Least favourite top five:

Last updated 15:55, Wednesday, 07 May 2008

BETWEEN THE LINES: Good Readers with Nicola McLaughlin and the Spellbinding group at St Benedict’s School, Whitehaven

1 Heat; 2 Bliss; 3 Computer games cheats on-line; 4 My own online blog or fan fiction; 5 The Harry Potter series.

1 Homework; 2 Shakespeare; 3 Books over 100 pages; 4 Articles about thin celebrities in magazines; 5 Books I am made to read in school

1 Mystery genre – the winner by a long way! 2 Teenage magazines – especially the girls; 3 Joke books; 4 Adventure genre (novels and short stories); 5 Fictional stories based in reality.

1 Romance novels – by far the least favourite; 2 Newspaper reports (‘Surprising!’, said group tutor, Nicola Mclaughlin); 3 Fantasy genre; 4 Textbooks!; 5 Mystical stories.