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I hope that you will be able to help him keep reading at home – audio books or books on subjects he is interested in…? As a child I loved to read (I don’t remember not being able to read), and usually read through the excepts in my English textbooks within the first few days of school – often didn’t enjoy the class- and home-work, to put it mildly.

It was reading at home, where there were few limits and little direction of my reading, but many options (including some that were and would be considered “over a child’s head” – but which I read anyway!), that gave me a ready escape to other times, other places, and fed my curiosity about so many topics.

Besides books – fiction, non-fiction, classics (Little Women, Thomas B. Costain novels, Delderfield novels, Shakespeare paraphrased, Ayn Rand among others), new works, several of the Time-Life series, Dad also subscribed to Reader’s Digest Condensed Books and several magazines (including Reader’s Digest, National Geographic, which had my attention by age 8 or so, and Smithsonian which I enjoyed when a bit older). I can still remember stopping by the county library as a teenager, trying to check out a book, and being told that I could not check it out because “your mother wouldn’t like you to read that” (Mommie Dearest – Joan Crawford). I was absolutely furious as neither of my parents would have minded!

Oh, good luck!