Nearly 1,300 seventh graders entered the Read2Me reading contest, but only one can be the best. On Saturday, 13-year-old Mirthe van het Greijdanus in Meppel was elected best reader. “They said I can read professionally.”
Mirthe from Steenwijk traveled to Woerden on Saturday afternoon with five fans to compete against ten other first graders in the grand final. And she had to get to work right away, as the student of the Greijdanus in Meppel was the first to enter the stage. “I found that very exciting, but very nice.”
The theme in the final competition was history and Mirthe read from the book To the north by Koos Meinderts, one of the four books she could choose from. The book is about children who migrate to the north of the Netherlands during the hunger winter.
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