This study analyzes the current information and reading interests of boys ages seven to thirteen in North Carolina. Information was drawn from response cards distributed by the North Carolina State Library Program that asked the question "what would you like to know more about?" From a total of about 150,000 responses, 1,400 responses that were submitted by boys ages 7 to 13 were analyzed and graphed. The findings of this study are that boys are interested in a wide variety of topics, but that there are a few general areas in which interests seem to cluster. Animals, science and sports are popular across all ages, while interest in computers and biography increases as age increases. There is a marked interest in non-fiction, which supports previous findings of research into reading interests
