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"textContent": "Kids' love affair with books seems to be cooling off. A new federal report finds that the share of 13-year-olds who read for fun has plunged by almost half since 2012, while pleasure reading among 9-year-olds is down 16 percentage points over the same 13 years. The data come from...",
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