Although I did not come from a household of readers, I did get started at a young age. The school district I went to from around 2004-2010 had a program for elementary school aged kids called accelerated reader. Accelerated reader was an incentive program designed to kids to read more. Every book in the school library, and other popular books that were not in the library, was worth a certain number of accelerated reader, or AR, points. The number of AR points a book was worth was determined by its length and reading difficulty. After you had read the book, you would log on to the computer and take a 10-20 question test over the book for a percentage of the book's AR points. At the beginning of the school year, students would take a placement test to determine what their AR point goal that they would be encouraged to meet each quarter of the school year. I would often take tests for my friends over books that I had read in exchange for part of their lunches. I probably gained a lot of weight in sixth grade when I got the Warriors series box set by Erin Hunter. Needless to say I have been a lifelong reader ever since.