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5th December 2008

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Minister calls for action books for boys

15.03.07

Every secondary school should provide a bookshelf packed with spy novels and action stories to help boys catch up with girls, Alan Johnson, the Education Secretary, said yesterday, according to the Telegraph.

They should choose books "containing positive, modern, relevant role models for working class boys", he said. "Boys like books which depict them in a powerful role, often as sporting, spying or fighting heroes," he told a meeting of the Fabian Society in London. To encourage reading boys needed "not just Jane Austen, but a necessary dose of Anthony Horowitz as well", he said.

Telegraph

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