Alki Elementary’s George’s Magicians Treasures is one of two teams competing in the Global Reading Challenge international finals! Here’s the Seattle Public Library announcement:

Two Seattle elementary school teams will compete in the Global Reading Challenge video conference final April 13.

“The Lightning Round Readers” from Adams Elementary School and “George’s Magicians Treasures” from Alki Elementary School will face the top teams from Fraser Valley, B.C. and Coquitlam, B.C. at 10 a.m. Friday, April 13 in the video conference final at the John Stanford Center for Educational Excellence, 2445 Third Ave. S. in Seattle. The public is welcome to cheer on the teams.

The Global Reading Challenge is a battle of the books program that encourages children to have fun and enjoy the sport of reading.

More than 2,500 fourth- and fifth-graders from more than 40 Seattle Public Schools studied ten books to prepare for the Global Reading Challenge.

The teams of children take part in a “Quiz Bowl” game to test their knowledge of the books.

Ten teams of fourth- and fifth-graders from Seattle Public Schools competed for the top spots in Seattle at the city final of the 2012 Global Reading Challenge on Tuesday, March 27 at the Central Library.