LOL ... here's my big confession .... as much as I love writing and reading ... when I was that age, I couldn't stand it, sitting still was not something I wanted to do and interestingly ... I don't remember any teacher ever doing that in a class I took ... maybe I missed out on it in one of the moves from one state to another (there were a couple of those when growing up) ... so even though I love to read .. I've never read (or had read to me) almost any of those type of books (Mark Twain, Robert Stephenson, etc.) So I'm looking forward to hearing all the answers you get in this thread!