Library Summer Reading Challenge Culminates With READO Celebration

More than 100 St. Margaret’s students completed the Library’s summer reading challenge this year, and they were rewarded during the first week of school with a celebration lunch in the Library.

The Library staff created a game called READO, a challenge based on Bingo yet with books. If students read five books in categories that aligned with the READO cards that were distributed, which included Newbery winners, a nonfiction book, a biography, a book recommended by a parent and a book from the Summer Reading List, students were invited to a celebration in the Library upon the start of the school.

“I was thrilled with the participation in READO this year,” said Darla Magana, director of library services. “It is so important that our students keep reading during the summer time. READO offers our students an opportunity to set and achieve a goal and it is a good push for them to try out a new genre and read a book that maybe wouldn’t normally cross their radar.”

The lunch was a lively one. Besides good food, students discussed the books they read over the summer and questions put forth by the Library sparked discussions, such as “If you could pick one character from a summer reading book that you would want to go to St. Margaret’s, who would it be?”