Automating readers' advisory to make book recommendations for K-12 readers

@inproceedings{Pera2014AutomatingRA,
  title={Automating readers' advisory to make book recommendations for K-12 readers},
  author={Maria Soledad Pera and Yiu-Kai Ng},
  booktitle={ACM Conference on Recommender Systems},
  year={2014}
}
The academic performance of students is affected by their reading ability, which explains why reading is one of the most important aspects of school curriculums. Promoting good reading habits among K-12 students is essential, given the enormous influence of reading on students' development as learners and members of society. In doing so, it is indispensable to provide readers with engaging and motivating reading selections. Unfortunately, existing book recommenders have failed to offer adequate… 
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