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2006 STATE WINNERS
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State |
Level I
grades 4-6 |
Level II
grades 7-8 |
Level III
grades 9-12 |
Alabama |
Caleb Killough, Madison, to Norton Juster,
author of The Phantom Tollbooth |
April Whisenant, Eva, to J. K. Rowling, author
of the Harry Potter series |
Brent Douglas, Wilsonville, to Ayn Rand, author
of The Fountainhead |
Alaska |
Emma Marquardt, Dutch Harbor, to Bill Richardson,
author of After Hamelin |
Sophie Wiepking-Brown, Anchorage, to Mark Haddon,
author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
Brittnay Walters, Kenai, to James Frey, author
of A Million Little Pieces |
Arizona |
Cadi Sande, Tucson, to Lemony Snicket,
author of The Bad Beginning |
Kelsey Wyman, Yuma, to Iain Lawrence,
author of Ghost Boy |
Iris Lee, Chandler, to Anchee Min,
author of Empress Orchid |
Arkansas |
Harrison Gooch, Searcy, to Eve
Bunting, author of The Summer of Riley |
Stephanie Lim, Searcy, to Wilson
Rawls, author of Where the Red Fern Grows |
Louise Li, Fayetteville, to Upton
Sinclair, author of The Jungle |
California |
Troy Just, Westlake, to Katie Couric,
author of The Brand New Kid |
Summer Dowd-Lukesh, Rancho Cucamonga,
to Cate Tiernan, author of Full Circle |
Larkin Grant, Orinda, to Tim O'Brien,author
of The Things They Carried |
Colorado |
Keric Lamb, Colorado Springs, to
Deborah Ellis, author of The Breadwinner |
Gabe Goodman, Greeley, to all authors |
Christina Wyman, Littleton, to
Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist |
Connecticut |
Amy Tomasso, Farmington, to Shannon Hale,author
of The Goose Girl |
Sophia Harrington, West Hartford, to
Peter Jenkins, author of Walk Across America |
Lauren Hefferon, Waterbury, to Miguel de Unamuno,
author of San Manuel Bueno, Martir |
Delaware |
Emily Waddington, Middletown, to Lois Lowry,
author of Number the Stars |
Ivette Planell, New Castle, to Richard Bach,
author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull |
Sean McCracken, Newark, to Edward Laxton, author
of The Famine Ships |
District of Columbia |
Evan Lassman, Washington, DC, to Gary Paulsen,
author of Hatchet |
Eric Sinclair Jackson, Washington, DC, to Harper
Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird |
Antar Tichavakurda, Washington, DC, to Herman
Hesse, author of Siddhartha |
Florida |
Emmanuel Ireland, Boca Raton, to
Elizabeth Yates, author of Amos Fortune, Free Man |
Chissybil Baulin, Pembroke Pines,
to Sharon Draper, author of Tears of a Tiger |
Katy Monegeau, Jacksonville, to
Marya Hornbackher, author of Wasted |
Georgia |
Bronte A. Velez, Decatur, to David
Pelzer, author of A Child Called It |
Jihye Choi, Ringgold, to Spencer
Johnson, author of Who Moved My Cheese? |
Amanda Kate Pillatzki, Hampton,
to Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go
To Birmingham, 1963 |
Hawaii |
Wai Sam Lao, Honolulu, to Eleanor Coerr, author
of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
|
Rachel Turner, Haleiwa, to Lemony Snicket,
author of The Bad Beginning |
Nikki Picciotto, Kailua, to Anne Frank, author
of Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl |
Idaho |
No state prize awarded this year |
No state prize awarded this year |
No state prize awarded this year |
Illinois |
Annika Sundberg, Lake Zurich, to Jerry Spinelli,
author of Stargirl |
Abby Renner, Ashland, to Ben Mikaelsen, author
of Petey |
Heather Vogt, Sheridan, to J. R. R. Tolkien,
author of The Lord of the Rings |
Indiana |
Megan Dyer, Bloomington, to Carl Hiaasen, author
of Hoot |
Sunny Huang, Carmel, to Jane Austen, author
of Pride and Prejudice |
Dakota Risner, Rochester, to Walter Dean Myers,
author of Hoops |
Iowa |
Hannah Soyer, Johnston, to Tamora Pierce, author
of the Song of the Lioness series |
Isaac Behrens, Cedar Rapids, to Joseph Girzone,
author of Joshua |
Amol Agarwal, Clive, to Chitra Divakaruni,
author of Clothes |
Kansas |
Jessi Glueck, Leawood, to Esmé Raji
Codell, author of Shara Special |
Anna Petrow, Mission Hills, to Wilson Rawls,
author of Where the Red Fern Grows |
Autumn Myers, Ottawa, to Max Lucado, author
of You Are Special |
Kentucky |
No state prize awarded this year |
No state prize awarded this year |
No state prize awarded this year |
Louisiana |
No state prize awarded this year |
Amanda Reed, Lafayette, to Alice Sebold, author
of The Lovely Bones |
No state prize awarded this year |
Maine |
Sarah Fitch , North Yarmouth, to Gary Schmidt,
author of Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy |
Lacie Craven, Bucks Harbor, to Marjorie
Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling |
Beatrice Abbott, Windsor, Robert Frost, author
of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" |
Maryland |
Angela Reeves, Burtonsville, to Megan McDonald,
author of Judy Moody Gets Famous |
Michael Ruzzi, Arnold, to George Orwell, author
of 1984 |
Verida Jennings Leandre, Laurel, to Maya Angelou,
author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
Massachusetts |
Bruno Araujo, Brockton, to David Pelzer, author
of A Child Called It |
Janelle Garcelon, Salisbury, to Elie Wiesel,author
of Night |
Jessenia Gonzalez, Worcester, to Sandra Cisneros,
author of Woman Hollering Creek |
Michigan |
Ashlyn Schaefer Feige, Gaines, to Gail Carson
Levine, author of Ella Enchanted |
Meagan Photiou, Swartz Creek, to J. K. Rowling,
author of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets |
Alexandra Puiu, Troy, to Paulo Coelho, author
of The Alchemist |
Minnesota |
Melissa Thomey, St. Paul, to Wilson Rawls,
author of Where the Red Fern Grows |
Tucker Everette, Edina, to George Harrar, author
of Parents Wanted |
Jeehyun Choi, St. Paul, to Peter Hedges,
author of What's Eating Gilbert Grape |
Mississippi |
No state prize awarded this year
| No state prize awarded this year |
No state prize awarded this year |
Missouri |
Franklin McCracken-VanFleet, Chesterfield,
to Avi, author of The Fighting Grounds |
Pari Jafari, Columbia, to Jean Webster, author
of Daddy Long Legs |
Casey Lynette Morrow, Mansfield, to Aldous
Huxley, author of Brave New World |
Montana |
Devan Fitzpatrick, Big Fork, to Kenneth Thomasma,
author of Pathki Nana |
Hunter Lapp, Kalispell, to C. S. Lewis,author
of The Screwtape Letters |
Christie Hanna, Bozeman, to Mitch Albom, author
of Tuesdays with Morrie |
Nebraska |
Connor Goecke, Omaha, to Lois Lowry, author
of The Giver |
Ellen Muchling, Lincoln, to Lurlene McDaniel,author
of A Rose for Melinda |
Sallie Dietrich, Lincoln, to Hannah Green,
author of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden |
Nevada |
No state prize awarded this year |
No state prize awarded this year |
No state prize awarded this year |
New Hampshire |
Isabel Starr, Hollis, to Natalie Babbitt, author
of The Search for Delicious |
Kylee Drugan-Eppich, Madbury, to Jenni Schaefer,
author of Life Without Ed |
Steve Therrien, Exeter, to Rowland Sill, author
of "Opportunity" |
New Jersey |
Wesley McLeon, Jersey City, to Linda Sue Park,
author of A Single Shard |
Elizabeth Camuti, Skillman, to Todd Strasser,
author of The Wave |
Kristin Hanratty, Cinnaminson, to Robert Frost,
author of "The Road Not Taken" |
New Mexico |
Miles Barkley, Los Alamos, to Dav Pilkey, author of The Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman |
Zeph Jennings, Roswell, to Norton Juster, author of The Phantom Tollbooth |
No state prize awarded this year |
New York |
Hanna Bruy, Jericho, to Patricia Riley Giff,
author of Pictures of Holis Woods |
Colby Eisen, Mt. Kisco, to Mark Haddon, author
of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime |
Sarah Brenner, New City, to Daniel Keyes, author
of Flowers for Algernon |
North Carolina |
Danielle Gargano, Matthews, to Beverly Cleary,
author of Ramona Quimby, Age 8 |
Danielle Enrique, Mooresville, to Harper Lee,
author of To Kill a Mockingbird |
Austen Stovall, Kill Devil Hills, to Ann Brashares,
author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants |
North Dakota |
Phillip Brockman, Thompson, to Michael
Crichton, author of Sphere |
Mia Barnett, Fargo, to Rodman Philbrick, author
of Freak the Mighty |
Timothy Cooper, Fargo, to Iris Chang, author
of The Rape of Nanking |
Ohio |
Hallie Davidson, Solon, to Sharon Creech, author
of Walk Two Moons |
Paul Burgess, Minster, to Orson Scott Card,
author of Ender's Game |
Gavin Wandrey, Chagrin Falls, to William Butler
Yeats, author of "The Second Coming" |
Oklahoma |
Jessica Shenoi, Tulsa, to E. B. White, author
of Charlotte's Web |
Bryne Harris, Oklahoma City, to Kyoko Mori,author
of Shizuko's Daughter |
Amy Tai, Tulsa, to Jean Plaidy, author of Queen
of this Realm |
Oregon |
Aubrey Means, Portland, to Ann
Rinaldi, author of A Break with Charity |
Jessie Karlovich, Ashland, to Tamora
Pierce, author of Alanna |
Nick Engelfried, Hillsboro, to
Janet Tashjian, author of The Gospel According to Larry |
Pennsylvania |
Chris Cox, New Wilmington, to Temple Grandin,
author of Emergence Labeled Autistic |
Jenny Uehling, Glenside, to Jerry Spinelli,
author of Stargirl |
Natasha Kumar, Hummelstown, to Lois Lowry,
author of The Giver |
Rhode Island |
Matthew DePietro, Johnston, to Chris Van Allsburg,
author of Zathura |
Gabrielle Sclafani, Barrington, to Mitch Albom,
author of Tuesdays with Morrie |
Linh Dang, Cranston, to Sherry Garland, author
of Song of the Buffalo Boy |
South Carolina |
Daisi Rubi Flores, Prosperity, to Pam Muñoz
Ryan, author of Esperanza Rising |
Haynes Werner, Beaufort, to Marjorie Kinnan
Rawlings, author of The Yearling |
Whitley Fulcher, Easley, to Davida Hurwin,
author of A Time for Dancing |
South Dakota |
Erica Ramstad, Crooks, to Wilson Rawls, author
of Summer of the Monkeys |
Katie Sorenson, Britton, to L. M. Montgomery,
author of Anne of Green Gables |
Alyssa Erickson, Sioux Falls, to Henrik Ibsen,
author of A Doll's House |
Tennessee |
Molly Tague, Oak Ridge, to Georgia Byng, author
of Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism |
Sarah Noor, Germantown, to Anne Frank, author
of The Diary of Anne Frank |
Martha Park, Memphis, to J. D. Salinger,
author of The Catcher in the Rye |
Texas |
Emily Devereaux, Austin, to C.
S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia |
Samantha Abundes, Brownsville,
to Gary Paulsen, author of The Crossing |
Esperanza Cantu, Monte Alto, to
J. D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye |
Utah |
Devan Betts, Murray, to Lois Lowry,
author of The Giver |
Breanne Anderson, Lehi, to Mette
Ivie Harrison, author of Mira, Mirror |
Lexie Labertew, Park City, to Deborah
Hautzig, author of Second Star to the Right |
Vermont |
No state prize awarded this year |
No state prize awarded this year |
No state prize awarded this year |
Virginia |
Justin Hazelwood, Chesterfield,
to Suzanne Moyer, author of One Brave Heart |
Elizabeth Heifets, Newport News,
to Anne Frank, author of The Diary of Anne Frank |
No state prize awarded this year |
Washington |
Zach Minnerly, Spokane, to Jerry Spinelli,
author of Loser
| Clare Kane, Olympia, to L. M. Montgomery, author
of Anne of Green Gables |
Carly Houser, Camano Island, to Sylvia Plath
Hughes, author of Ariel |
West Virginia |
Leila Feuchtenberger, Bluefield,
to Helen Lester, author of Tacky |
Bayan Misaghi, Charleston, to Lois
Lowry, author of The Giver |
Mashal Shaikh, Charleston, to Amy
Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club |
Wisconsin |
Brett W. Tobin, Milwaukee, to Montrew Dunham,
author of Neil Armstrong |
Olivia Wulf, Appleton, to Jodee Bianco, author
of Please Stop Laughing at Me |
Jessica Hjort, Clintonville, to L. M. Montgomery,
author of Anne of Green Gables |
Wyoming |
Britney Titensor, Thayne, to Deborah
Ellis, author of The Breadwinner |
Kristi Mingus, Powell, to Mary Hahn, author
of Daphne's Book |
Greg Luegering, Worland, to David Baldacci,
author of The Simple Truth |
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