For the fourth year, each student at Adams Elementary is reading the same book as part of the “Adams Reads the Same Book” program. This year students are reading “Shredderman: Secret Identity,” a book about bullying and the internet. On Thursday evening, students, parents and the entire community are invited to meet the award-winning author, Wendelin Van Draanen. Her book “Flipped” received the California Young Reader Medal and was turned into a movie. She has also won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Children’s Mystery.

On Thursday, Van Draanen will do a book reading and answer questions starting at 6:30 p.m. at Adams Elementary (6110 28th Ave NW.) Dante’s Inferno Dogs will be outside the cafeteria on the north side of the school from 6 to 6:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.