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Good morning and welcome to May.

People have tried everything to try to get kids to read more books, but maybe we're all

just overthinking it. Brive them with free pizza. Pizza Hut has announced the return of its

book it program for the summer, which will reward young students who hit reading milestones with

a free one-topping personal pan pizza each month. And it really works. This announcement sparked a wave of millennials and

Gen X sharing memories of how the lure of free Pizza Hut made reading exciting when they were young.

I missed this era growing up, but I feel like you and I would have been much heftier children

if this was a thing because the amount of magic treehouse books that I was powering through

meant we'd be eating pizza

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