Palouse seven-year-old reads 100 books

Prairie Hust, 7, poses with some favorite books at her house in Palouse. The second grader read more than 100 books this summer during Neill Public Library's summer reading program.

A Palouse seven-year-old may have read her way into Neill Public Library's record books.

When the summer began, Prairie Hust, the daughter of Joshua and Stacey Hust, signed up for the library's summer reading program and set the goal to read 100 books by the time the summer came to an end.

“The first response was 1,000,” Stacey said. “I quickly did some math, and I thought 100 books would be a good goal.”

Prairie h...