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Miller and Sharp provide suggestions for transforming "book deserts" into "book floods" and enumerate the many barriers to reading, including lack of access to libraries, library fines, and often disheartening reading levels. Suggestions such as keeping school libraries open all year, giving students the opportunity to work off fines (by shelving, reading to younger children or writing book reviews), and instituting a no-fines policy may seem unfeasible. However, the authors' passionate argument that it is b...Log In or Sign Up to Read More