Falling Interest in Reading for Pleasure in the United States ^{CEFR A1}

Difficult words

• pleasure — enjoyment or happiness from an activity
• teenager — a young person of about thirteen to nineteen years

  Teenagers
• adult — a grown person, usually over eighteen years old

  Adults
• social media — websites and apps for sharing short messages
• library — a place where people borrow and read books
• choose — to pick one thing from two or more things

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