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Lindamood, Sara Lindamood, Emily Turner, Jenni Wood, and alternate Jason McCall i.

Excitement ran high during the sudden death rounds that followed. Rappahannock County Middle School was eliminated in the first round, thereby winning Fourth Place, and Taylor Middle School's team missed its question in the second round, thus winning Third Place and giving the Second Place title to Culpeper Middle School.

This event was the culmination of eight months of hard work by the participants. For the better part of a year, 79 students throughout the Rappahannock. Fauquier, Culpeper and Warren countyareas devoted untold hours reading 19 books to earn the chance to represent their schools at this fourth annual area-competition.

After completing the requisite reading list, teams of five students, along with two alternates, were selected by their teachers to participate in this literary endeavor. The schools that fielded teams were: Culpeper Middle School, Marshall Middle School, Randolph-Macon Academy. Rappahannock County Middle School, Saint John the Evangelist School, Taylor Middle School, Wakefield Country Day School, and Warrenton Middle School.

Many parents, students, and friends attended the event to cheer on their favorite schools.

The questions were drawn from books that ranged from old favorites such as Enid Bagnold’s National Velvet, Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Fellowship of the Ring, to modern day novels such as True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi, and

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