Participating Schools
High Schools: Amphi, Sabino, Tucson, City High, AZ School for Deaf and Blind, SAZ Community Academy, Marana.
Middle Schools: Townsend, Gridley, Amphi, Maxwell, Wakefield, Safford, AZ School for Deaf and Blind, Doolen, Booth Fickett, Pueblo Gardens, Holladay Intermediate Imago Dei.
Elementary Schools: Van Buskirk, Safford, Lawrence, AZ School for Deaf and Blind, Holaway, Rio Vista, Laura Nobles Banks, Pueblo Gardens, Holladay Intermediate, Castlehill Country Day School.
Stanza Bonanza Read-a-Thon Donors
The Stanza Bonanza Read-a-Thon is made possible by our amazing sponsors. Thanks to each and every one of these organizations for fostering literacy and love of the arts in our young people.
- American Girl
- Antigone Books
- COH Technical Support
- Cold Stone Creamery
- Denise Barnes, dabfab Design
- Eegee's
- Funtasticks
- Golf n’ Stuff
- Harper Collins Children’s Books
- Heroes and Villains Comics and Adventure
- Highlights Magazine
- Long Realty Cares Foundation
- Magnetic Poetry
- Magpies Pizza
- McDonald’s
- Persona Magazine
- Poetry Foundation
- Santa Barbara Ice Creamery
- Skate Country
- Sonora Review
- Spectrum Printing
- Temporary Tattoo Manufacturing, Inc.
- The Donald Pitt Family Foundation
- The Loft
- Tricycle Press
- Tucson Children’s Museum
- UA Athletics
- UA Presents
- Yikes Toys
Read-a-Thon Winners!
Elementary School: Rio Vista with 200,957 minutes of poetry!
Middle School: Townsend with 3,876 books of poetry!
High School: Southern Arizona Community Academy with 636 books of poetry!
Read-a-Thon Runners-Up!
Elementary School: Castlehill Country Day School
...1st runner-up with 67,833 minutes!
Ms. Meyer’s 2nd Grade Class wins in the category of “most creative bonus activities!”
Click here to view selected student work.
Laura Nobles Banks Elementary School
...2nd runner-up with 54,967 minutes!
Holladay Intermediate Elementary School
...3rd runner-up with 53,427 minutes!
Safford Elementary School
...4th runner-up with 49,385 minutes!
Middle School: Wakefield Middle School
...runner-up with 1,164 books of poetry!
High School: Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind
...runner-up with 325 books!
STANZA BONANZA Read-a-Thon
The Stanza Bonanza Read-a-Thon took place between October 15 and December 15 and reached an estimated 5,000 students, teachers, and parents
in the Tucson, Marana, and Amphitheater school districts. The Read-a-Thon will awarded prizes to middle and high students who read 10, 25, 35, and 50
books of poetry. Elementary school students won prizes based on how many minutes they read. The schools competed against each other to see which school
collectively read the most books. Winning schools were awarded with pizza parties, school visits from local authors and artists, prize bags, and other amenities.
This spring the Poetry Center, in conjunction with many generous donors and small book presses, helped get nearly 700 books of poetry into the hands of teachers, children, and youth! Most of the books were delivered in early May and were distributed to a total of 28 schools at the elementary, middle, and high school level. Schools that received kits this year are eligible to participate in the Stanza Bonanza Read-a-Thon which challenges teachers and students to read and use the recent acquisitions.
