The Reading Promise (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• Kristen "Alice Ozma" Brozina: daughter read to by her father for 9 years
• Jim Brozina (Alice's dad): School librarian and dad who read to Alice
• Alice Ozma: Author. Kid whose father reads to her every night from age nine until college.
• Mr. Flickinger: owner of Flick's where Alice & her dad celebrate their first 100 days of reading
• Kathy: Older sister of Kristin
• Kristen
• Streak
• Franklin
• Dan
• Rabb
• Lee
• James
• Dicey
• Nathan
• Worthington
• Hank
• Phil Collins
• Brian
• L. Frank Baum

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• “It started on a train. I am sure of it. The 3,218-night reading marathon that my father and I call The Streak started on a train to Boston, when I was in third grade. Pg. 1.”

  Alice Ozma

• “I'm going to go look for treasures in the coat closet. Pg. 7.”

  Jim Brozina (Alice's dad)

• “There is something about chipper adults that I've always found both inspiring and exhausting. Pg. 22.”

  Alice Ozma

• “Dad, I've been thinking it over, and aren't you sort of a traitor for being vice president of the Boy-Haters' Club of America? I have seen your photos from elementary school and you were definitely a boy. You had the haircut and everything. And in some of the pictures you are laughing in a boy way. Pg. 33.”

  Alice Ozma

• “I never had a bedtime ("If you wake up tomorrow and you're tired, you'll know you overdid it" was my father's motto), so it took me years to figure out the best sleep schedule for me. Pg. 107”

  Alice Ozma

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• The greatest gift you can bestow upon your children is your time and undivided attention. As the years advance, you may reflect upon your life and see that in some areas, you have regrets about what you took to be a priority. No one will ever say, no matter how good a parent he or she was, “I think I spent too much time with my children when they were young.”

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• If children feel that a parent is living a life that shows compassion and understanding, patience and love, that child will not have to reach a stage of rebellion against that parent. Why rebel against someone who has listened to you and wants to help you fulfill your dreams? A parent who has proven time and again that the growth and happiness of his or her children is priority number one does not have to worry about where those children are heading in life. They will be sensitive and productive members of society for as long as they live.

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• Nothing that lasts has been accomplished without effort. The things that we are most proud of took quite a lot to achieve.

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• In 1985, the Commission on Reading, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, declared, “The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children.”

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• That is the best part, after all; even better than holding, touching, smelling, and hugging new books is taking them home and reading them in your own bed, under your own covers, with your own lamp shining beside you until someone yells for you to turn it off and get some sleep.

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• We called it The Reading Streak, but it was really more of a promise. A promise to each other, a promise to ourselves. A promise to always be there and to never give up. It was a promise of hope in hopeless times. It was a promise of comfort when things got uncomfortable. And we kept our promise to each other.

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• Everybody cried, because death is hard. Death is sad. But death is part of life. When someone you know dies, it’s your job to keep on living. —Deborah Wiles, Each Little Bird That Sings

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• Books, I was starting to discover, could be great points of reference, even if they weren’t true.

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• It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Case of Identity,” The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Brittany
• Germany
• America

Organizations edit see section history

• The Boy Haters' Club of America (BHCA): Add a description of this organization.

First Sentence edit see section history

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Alice Ozma (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Jim Brozina (Foreword)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Z1003.2O96 2011
• Dewey: 028.9

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Books & Reading
• Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Memoirs