The Global Reading Challenge is a cooperative effort between King County Library System and local public school districts. This is a Battle of the Books style program that allows 4th and 5th graders across the county to work together as a team and challenge other schools to correctly answer questions about the selected books. Each year, King County Library System Children's Librarians select 10 titles in a wide range of reading levels especially suited to the interests of young readers.

The goal is to encourage students at all reading levels to engage in teamwork while reading some of the best in children's literature.

This year nine teams, each with seven fourth and fifth graders, read ten books to prepare. Mrs. Pazaski conducted the preliminary challenge to narrow the field to seven teams.  On January 28th, the King County LIbrarians were here at Blackwell to run another challenge to determine our Blackwell champions.  Ms. Hopper's team "Vote For Pedro" won the challenge and represented Blackwell on March 5th, at the regional competition.  They were well prepared and had great sportsmanship!  Great job to all 63 participants this year!

Information about Global Reading Challenge 2009: http://www.kcls.org/kids/whattoread/grc.cfm