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The top 10 student readers at Pershing Elementary proudly display their trophies - and their school's $500 grand prize!

As temperatures plummet, summer may seem like a distant memory, but students at Pershing Elementary still have a reason to celebrate their summer. The school was recently named the grand prize winner of myON’s myMAGICALsummer reading contest.

At an assembly on Friday, Nov. 14, myON representative Kim Walsh presented the school with a $500 check, distributed myON backpacks to the students and recognized the school’s top 10 student readers with special trophies.

“I am overwhelmingly proud of the perseverance of our students as they develop as readers. I’m equally proud of the commitment that our staff and parents provided to our students this summer so there would be no summer reading lag,” said Marilyn McManus, the school’s principal. “Our students love the wide variety of genre available on myON. Accessibility to good literature coupled with supportive adults was the key to our students’ summer reading success!”

For more information, read myON’s press release on the contest winners.