Preteens Reading Preferences

Mystery books have been devoured by preteens since the fifties. I remember graduating from Nancy Drew to Trixie Belden. Or maybe it was the other way around. In eighth grade I discovered Agatha Christie and “Then there were none”. I think a few boy readers read The Hardy Boys, but not many. Boys wanted to be moving usually, not reading. Today’s preteens are reading the Goosebumps books. Each chapters ending in a cliffhanger, to urge you toward the next chapter. I read a few chapters of them. They are not intriguing. They did not entice boys, but the Captain Underpants book did.