The WrestleMania Reading Challenge is here!

Want a chance to win a trip to WrestleMania in Atlanta?

To participate, students will pledge to read 5 books or graphic novels between Teen Read Week (October 17 - 23, 2010) and WrestleMania 27 on April 3, 2011.

Students who want a chance to win the trip to WrestleMania 27 in Atlanta will need to complete a special project:

Grades 7-8 and Grades 9-12: Form a tag team of your favorite character from literature and your favorite WWE Superstar, and describe and/or illustrate on an 8.5x11-inch piece of paper the strategy you would use to defeat the current WWE Tag Team Champions (as of October 10, 2010). Teens may use art, drawing, collage, poetry and/or writing alone or in any combination in creating your project. All projects must be the original work of the individual teen. Only one entry per person.

Grades 5-6: Design a bookmark illustrating a slogan created by you that promotes reading. All projects must be the original work of the individual tween. Only one entry per person. The students chosen as Grand Prize Winners represent their libraries at the WrestleMania Reading Challenge World Finals in Atlanta on April 2, 2011 and win their libraries $2,000 grants and other prizes.


Between Oct. 25 and Nov. 15, each library will judge all project entries in three groups: grades 5-6, grades 7-8 and grades 9-12. Project winners at the local library level will get a certificate and a prize from the participating librarian's WrestleMania Reading Challenge Kit.

On or about Jan. 10, 2011, YALSA will award a Grand Prize to three students from each regional group who prepared the best project from that geographic region for their grade category (one from grades 5-6, one from grades 7-8, and one from grades 9-12). Grand Prize winners will win $2,000 for their library, a trip to Atlanta to see WrestleMania 27 and also get the chance to compete in Atlanta to be the WrestleMania Reading Challenge World Champion. The sponsoring library for the twenty-one finalists will receive a set of books from Penguin, including a new line of titles featuring WWE.

For more information on the contest, visit ALA's" website.