They come in more enthusiastic. Children will come in and talk to you about the books that they read. This past school year, children were coming in the first day and talking about Harry Potter. And I guess we've been fortunate in Austin that the schools are not giving out lots of required lists. They continue pushing but we have managed to push back, so it's suggested books, not requirements.
Nobody likes to be forced to read specific books.
And the whole point of summer reading is reading for pleasure, reading what you like, trying new things and having the freedom to put that book down if you don't really like it. We really have to distinguish between reading during the school year and reading during the summer. They were great readers. But ask them what did you read lately that you really liked, that you read on your own, and I would get a blank stare. There were complaints.