Reading for enjoyment is always more fun then reading for an assignment.  Lexie has always loved to read, but this year she has had so much homework and other outside activities that she hasn't had much time for reading for the fun of it.  While she has been off track, I have a had a hard time getting her nose out of a book.  She had read part of the Lightening Thief series before but for some reason got bogged down on the 3rd book and didn't really finish it.  She has collected all of the books since then and then purchased the latest one for her nook.  She decided to start over and has enjoyed then so much more this time around.  In barely two weeks she has read the first three and is part of the way through the fourth one.