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Wigan Warriors first full team to take up the Six Book Challenge

Wigan Warriors rugby league squad first and youth teams all have signed up to the Rugby League World Cup 2013 Six Book Challenge.

World Book Night 2013: a report from Liverpool

We have been involved in World Book Night since it began in 2010. Here, Sandeep Mahal, shares her experiences of celebrating the occasion in Liverpool.

Summer Reading Challenge

Six Book Challenge

Reading Groups for Everyone

Reading Well

Reading Activists

Chatterbooks

Summer Reading Challenge

Children's reading can dip during the long summer holidays. The Summer Reading Challenge gets one million children into libraries to keep up their reading skills and confidence.

Six Book Challenge

One in six adults struggles to read. The Six Book Challenge improves the opportunities in life for people who find reading difficult by building their reading confidence.

Reading Groups for Everyone

66% of us read in our spare time. Reading Groups for Everyone celebrates the good things that happen when people come together in their communities to share reading.

Reading Well

Poor mental health costs the NHS around £13 billion a year. Our Reading Well work with libraries comprises of two strands: Books on Prescription and M

Reading Activists

25% of 16 to 24 year-olds are unemployed. Reading Activists gives young people new skills and opportunities through reading activities in their local libraries and communities.

Chatterbooks

Reading for pleasure is more important to children's success than education or social class. Chatterbooks reading clubs help children build a lifelong reading habit.