“The Reading Link Challenge program is an excellent example of how Surrey Libraries engages with partners to promote literacy and community engagement. We’re so proud of all the students that competed and were inspired to read,” said Surinder Bhogal, Chief Librarian.
At the first challenge level, teams within a school compete with each other answering questions about characters, plots and settings. The winning team at each school then goes on to the next challenge level at the local branch library where the competition is repeated with a different set of questions. From here the teams advance to a Community Challenge where they compete with various Surrey neighbourhoods for a spot in the Grand Challenge.
The Grand Challenge is comprised of the top teams from other Lower Mainland library systems where they vie for the top honour in front of a public audience.