From Deseret News archives:
MormonTimes.com: Books fill Florida 5th-grader's life
He's read 15 million words — and Book of Mormon 5 times
If you're going up against John Markham, probably not.
The 11-year-old member of the LDS Church in the DeLand Florida Stake loves to read. He reads one book after another after another — about 15 million words since the fourth grade.
He's read so many books in Scholastic's "Reading Counts" program that he's got several trophies — including two large ones — in his house, plus letters from President Bush, President Clinton and Al Gore praising his reading.
