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Murphy Celebrates Reading 10,062 Books
William F. Murphy Elementary School held its final reading assembly of the year to honor the reading achievements of its students.
If you want to get a sense of how many books the students of read this school year, just look at the ceiling.
Two volunteers, Lynn Tomim and LuAnn Farr, taped slips of colored paper to the ceiling of Murphy's hallways. Each classroom had a different color. There are now slips representing the 10,062 books the students read during the 2010-2011 school year.
That's 20 percent of the 50,218 books Woodridge read during the school year.
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Murphy held an assembly Wednesday to celebrate that achievement and to feature its million-word readers.
Ten students read more than 1 million words: Carson Aldrich, Frank Campbell, Ryan Cheevers, Faith Ley, Gionna Shaffer, O'Shay Jackson, Iris Ugalde-Lopez, Anthony Alcantara and Tyna Jarzabek.
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Two students read more than 2 million words: Elijah Yifrach and Bartek Wulw.
One student read more than 4 million words: Forth-grader Marilin Perez.
Perez said she read probably 100 books this school year. She reads after school, though she has to finish her homework first.
Her favorites are fiction and mystery. From the 100 books that she read, she said one of her favorites was "Eleven Birthdays," by Wendy Mass.
"I like how it gets me out of my worries and problems," Perez said.
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