Most Literate City is Seattle!

Seattle Time Book Editor, Mary Ann Gwinn, recently reported that Seattle earned the title Most Literate City in 2009! The survey conducted by Central Connecticut State University placed Washington D.C. at number two and Minneapolis number three.

Seattle was first:
* for number of bookstores per 10,000 people
* for holding the most high school and college degrees
* for being third in Internet usage
* for fourth in library usage
* and 17th in newspaper readers

And Seattle is the birthplace of rgz, championing teen literacy and corresponding social service. Woot!

Here's to the Emerald City and all things bookish!

Rock the Drop: TODAY

And the divas are off to Seattle Children's Hospital for an interview with KING 5 News! (Melissa, we will miss you!) How cool to be able to see the donation! Just think, 8,000 books are hitting hospitals today.

It's time to grab a readergirlz bookplate and take a book somewhere in your town--donate it to a library, a school, or a lonely park bench. Leave it anywhere in honor of Support Teen Literature Day! Take a photo for tonight's TBD Post-Op Party. See you here at 6:00, Pacific. Rock on, rgz!