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Kadeem saunters down the hall during summer school, his long legs in denim jeans with factory-made horizontal tears across each thigh (student names are pseudonyms). With each left footfall, he taps a graphic novel against his hip. It is almost musical, the swish of his basketball shooting jacket, the rhythm of his steps, the beat of his size 14s on the linoleum. The steady bump bump bump of the book against his leg. This feature is not going to talk about the reasons Kadeem quit reading (he had a missing-book fine from third grade, so for eight years he had not checked out a book from the library). Instead, it will focus on the reasons students choose to read. I have always been curious about the ways young people become interested in reading. To begin each school year in my Honors English 10 classes, I wondered how students might respond to that question, so I asked my students how they knew what to read. Where did they get their book recommendations?