The 2024 Tournament of the Readers had an exciting finish in the Haines School library this week. The Literary Llamas (Gwendolyn Kosinski, Meg Davis, Asher Jimenez and Ivy Elliott) were undefeated this year and worked hard to take first place. Playing for the first time this year, The Wild Readers (Zephyr Cox, Olen Stickler, Hazel Schweinefus and Loralai DeWitt) captured second place and The Library Legends (Thomas Hunter, Piper Carlson, Sam Thompson and Leon Rogers) took third. Overall, we had eight teams with 32 students reading eight books. They answered 224 questions. Our tournament began Jan. 29 and ended Feb. 20, playing every day in the library. I look forward to running this reading incentive program each year and working with your students. In addition to reading, our competition reinforces teamwork, sportsmanship and just makes reading fun.
An enormous thanks to my dear friends who help me make this event possible. I appreciate the continued support from volunteers Holly Davis and Karen Garcia. Their dedication to reading (and question writing) is phenomenal. This year I also would like to thank Norm and Suzanne Smith for their cash donation for the top three teams. Having the little extra boost from winning makes their hard work pay off.
Leigh Horner, Haines School Librarian