Read it and weep: in January, the 464 first-through-fifth-graders at Holy Innocents' Episcopal School made a bet with assistant principal Rick Betts. They said they could read 3,000 books by mid-March. In the final count, the Atlanta, Georgia, students hadn't read 3,000 books-they had read 6,423! What was their prize? Betts had his hair dyed green!

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March 30, 2001 World Report