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Free books to be sent to England's secondary schools in an attempt to get pupils reading
31 Dec 2009
Each school will receive 15 new books, and the 330 schools where more than 30% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (FSM) will receive an additional 10 tomes each.
Among the 260 different titles on offer are Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Bill Bryson's A Short History Of Nearly Everything and David James' Cup Final Day, a personal account of the goalkeeper’s 2008 FA Cup final.
The list was compiled by Eileen Armstrong, school librarian at Cramlington Learning Village, and has been specially designed to include up to the minute titles as well as "modern classics in new guises" and a few "tried and tested favourites".
Ministers say they hope the £500,000 scheme, called Everyone's Reading, will open up "new worlds" for young people.
The scheme is jointly run by the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the School Library Association.
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