Austin students promote literacy with reading challenge

AUSTIN (KXAN) — From graphic novels to the latest installments of their favorite series, student across Austin grabbed books off library shelves to get ready for a lot of reading.
“I like the paper ones, where you have the paper cover,” Gullet Elementary School student Charlie Maloy said while sifting through a stack of Harry Potter books. He’s read the first three books in the series so far, and is working on tackling the fourth.
He challenged himself to read 500 pages i