Ravenous readers vie for world record

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Channel: Miami Herald · 2009 · News & Politics

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Over 80 first graders at Toussaint Louverture Elementary School in Little Haiti were among the hundreds of thousands of students who read 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' at the same time Thursday morning.  The Jumpstart 'Read for the Record' program hoped to beat last year's record of nearly 700,000 students reading simultaneously across the world. Video by Marice Cohn Band / Miami Herald Staff

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