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Local Florida School Wins Another Reading Challenge

Tampa Bay Times (FL)

For the second year in a row, the school has won the Scholastic Read for the World Record Summer Challenge, logging 3,463,452 minutes of reading time from May 1 to Aug. 31. The minutes included parents and teachers reading to the younger children as well as older students doing their own reading.

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