The heartwarming, true story of a young woman, her single father, and the power of books... When Alice was in the fourth grade, she and her father---a beloved elementary school librarian---made a promise to read aloud together for 100 consecutive nights. Upon reaching their goal, they celebrated over pancakes, but it was clear that neither wanted to let go of what had become their reading ritual. They decided to continue what they came to call "The Streak" for as long as they possibly could. From L. Frank Baum to Dickens to J.K. Rowling to Shakespeare, Alice's father read to her every night without fail until the day she entered college, a remarkable eight years later. In this deeply affecting memoir, Alice tells the story of her relationship with the extraordinary man who raised her---from his steadying hand on the back of her wobbly bike to his one-man crusade to keep reading in schools---through a series of deftly written, often hilarious vignettes about the words they shared and the spaces in between.

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