Here’s one idea for promoting reading for your middle school level students.
Have them visit abookandahug.com (it’s all free and it’s all the hard work of children’s librarians) and take the Reader Personality Assessment.
Advanced version: https://abookandahug.com/test/reader-type-advanced/
Your student answers ten questions and then gets a “read out” of what type of reader he/she/they is/are.
Middle schoolers love to learn more about themselves. They can compare with their friends, etc. We’ve even had reports from librarians that kids who were not friends before were able to bond over their shared reader preference!
Then they can search abookandahug.comby reader type.
They can also review books if they have an account (which requires an email address). Many educators create a “class” email address – call it Mrs. Grants’ class – and then all of their students can review under that address.
It’s a great way to gather the kids around books and it’s a safe place for them to search. We have books for 0-16 year olds. Over 15,000 titles right now on the site to choose from.
No data is mined or saved. We just want to help kids find a book to love.