An Interview about Lady Pirates with Laura Sook Duncombe

And now, a Summer Story Challenge leaderboard update.

As you know from last week, this week we're debuting a brand-new leaderboard for groups of friends or siblings that are writing together on the Summer Story Challenge.

Still in the number one slot on the group leaderboard, we've got Zev and Ruben from Oregon, with Theo, Richard, and Elliot in second place.

And after that, we have some new groups debuting for the first time on the leaderboard.

Congrats to George and Arthur in Canada, Arabel and Emmett in the Philippines, Zach, Ben, Vivian, Violet in Canada, and Sawyer, Brady, and Landon in New Jersey.

And now, the individual leaderboard is getting pretty exciting.

It's neck and neck over there.

Congrats to this week's number one, Tabitha from Arizona.

Right behind her in second through eighth place, we have Gus in Canada, Raffi in Rhode Island, Maya in Colorado, Brooklyn in Pennsylvania, Ethan in Washington, Alessandro in Spain, Stella in New York, Tommy in Rhode Island.

And we have a bunch of people tied for ninth place on the individual leaderboard.

Acadia in Massachusetts, Adrian in Georgia, Evie in Canada, Vivi in Connecticut, and Ziva in Arizona.

And tied for 10th place, we've got Jack in Illinois and Lucas in Canada.

Wow! I cannot believe how good these stories are that these kids are sending in.

But it is still anyone's game.

If you've been watching the World Cup like I have, you know comebacks happen all the time.

So it is definitely not too late to jump in and start the Summer Story Challenge.

We want to read as many stories as we can this summer.

We'll be updating the leaderboard every week at storypirates.com/leaderboard, and every week I'll be shouting out kids on the podcast.

Grownups, you can find links to the leaderboard and find out how to get your kids involved in the Summer Story Challenge in the show notes for today's episode.