I can certainly second the sentiment that having to read such titles results in hating reading. When in grades 3-5 I read about 100 (Admittedly easy) books per

I can certainly second the sentiment that having to read such titles results in hating reading. When in grades 3-5 I read about 100 (Admittedly easy) books per year on average. After that we had to read books for school and it almost instantly caused me to drop my yearly amount of books to 10 AT MOST. Now that I am out of school I read a lot more again. BTW: Shakespeare wrote plays, not books. So why force children to read it instead of watching it?