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Number of Teams to Compete in Reading Challenge Finals

Summary: Eleven teams will compete in tonight’s final at Central Library 

Number of Teams to Compete in Reading Challenge Finals

The Global Reading Challenge is a reading incentive program for 4th and 5th graders enrolled in Seattle Public Schools. Students form teams and read selected books, then take part in a trivia competition.  

For the first time, a record 11 teams will compete in tonight’s final at Seattle Central Library at 5 p.m. Good luck to all the finalists! 

Kimball – The Purple Banana Slugs 
Genesee Hill – Book Bandits 
Queen Anne – The Library Lynx 
Dunlap – Willy Wonka 
Lafayette – Confidential 
Cascadia – mAGnificent Muffins 
Cedar Park – Sigma Peppa Pigs 
Broadview-Thomson – Depressing Unicorns 
John Muir – Legends of Books 
Orca K-8 – The Intelligent Foxes 
Rising Star – Silver Hawks 

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