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State Winners
LETTERS ABOUT LITERATURE 2008
State Winners
National Winners in BOLD. National Honorable Mentions marked with an asterisk.
State |
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Level II
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Level III |
Alabama |
Erin McKee, Decatur, wrote to Cynthia Lord, author of Rules |
Darsey Wegrzyn, Huntsville, wrote to Lemony Snicket, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events |
Shejuti Paul, Florence, wrote to Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road |
Alaska |
Garrett Rutherford, Fairbanks, wrote to Avi, author of Ereth's Birthday |
Sarah Frankl, Anchorage, wrote to Lois Lowry, author of The Giver |
Nikki Wray, Anchorage, wrote to Shel Silverstein, author of The Giving Tree |
Arizona |
Creighton Morfitt, Scottsdale, wrote to Jerry Spinelli, author of Maniac Magee |
Shannon Green, Lakeside, wrote to Scott Westerfeld, author of Uglies |
William Johnston, Gilbert, wrote to Chaim Potok, author of The Chosen |
Arkansas |
Valeria Herrera, Batesville, wrote to Nicholasa Mohr, author of Felita |
Ashley Crossman, Searcy, wrote to Naoko Takeuchi, author of Sailor Moon |
Hattie Felton, Story, wrote to Betty Smith, author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
California |
Augustine Chemparathy, Danville, wrote to James Herriot, author of All Creatures Great and Small |
Francesca Libutti, Upland, wrote to Patricia McCormick, author of Sold |
Sarah Zarrin, Saratoga, wrote to Alex Haley, author of Roots |
Colorado |
Douglas Lesher, Aurora, wrote to Katherine Paterson, author of Bridge to Terabithia |
Amanda Coopersmith, Greenwood Village, wrote to Sarah Dessen, author of The Truth About Forever |
Melanie Brown, Centennial, wrote to Walter Farley, author of Little Black, A Pony |
Connecticut |
Emma Koether, Southport, wrote to Ann M. Martin, author of A Corner of the Universe |
Anna Rodis, Farmington, wrote to Paul Showers, author of The Listening Walk |
Jennifer Ky, Hartford, wrote to Stephen Chbosky, author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower |
Delaware |
Connor Driscall, Middletown, wrote to C.S. Lewis, author of The Last Battle |
Chloe Dye, Milton, wrote to Mitch Albom, author of Tuesdays with Morrie |
Emilee Maroun, Middletown, wrote to Don Piper, author of 90 Minutes in Heaven |
District of Columbia |
Sydney Harris, Washington DC, wrote to Sue Monk Kidd, author of
The Secret Life of Bees |
Ayodele Akosile, Washington DC, wrote to Walter Dean Myers, author of Bad Boy |
Michael Walker, Washington DC, wrote to John Steinbeck, author of Of Mice and Men |
Florida |
Courtney Andexler, DeBary, wrote to Elisa Bartone, author of Peppe, the Lamplighter |
Xianlu Wang, Wesley Chapel, wrote to Blue Balliet, author of Chasing Vermeer |
Alexis Vanlaningham, Hollywood, wrote to Rachel Simon, author of Riding the Bus with My Sister |
Georgia |
Katie Williamson, Atlanta, wrote to Jodi Lynn Anderson, author of Peaches |
Shaina Sayeed, Savannah, wrote to Charles Dickens, author of Oliver Twist |
Fred Dong, Lilburn, wrote to Edgar Allen Poe, author of "Alone" |
Hawaii |
*Sarah Jenkins, Kaunakakai, wrote to Mildred Taylor, author of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |
Ben White, Kailua, wrote to J. K. Rowling, author of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone |
Roy Franco, Waimanalo, wrote to Albert Camus, author of The Plague |
Idaho |
Lessa Mansfield, Meridian, wrote to J. K. Rowling, author of The Harry Potter series |
Katie Mondada, Boise, Daniel Keyes, author of Flowers for Algernon |
Lindsey Evans, Pocatello, wrote to Wally Armstrong and Ken Blanchard, authors of The Mulligan |
Illinois |
Nikki Rhum, Buffalo Grove, wrote to Dan Millman, author of Peaceful Warrior |
Joey Romano, Norridge, wrote to Betsy Byars, author of Summer of the Swans |
Amy Nathan, Skokie, wrote to Mitch Albom, author of Tuesdays with Morrie |
Indiana |
Emma Alexander, Columbus, wrote to Robert Frost, author of "The Road Not Taken" |
Mathew Voorhees, Battle Ground, wrote to Ben Mikaelsen, author of Touching Spirit Bear |
Yasamin Oloomi, Fort Wayne, wrote to Azadeh Moaveni, author of Lipstick Jihad |
Iowa |
*Sarah Startz, Johnston, wrote to Barbara Park, author of The Graduation of Jake Moon |
*Laura Wang, Cedar Rapids, wrote to J. K. Rowling, author of The Harry Potter series |
Mythili Prabhu, Ames, wrote to William Easterly, author of The White Man's Burden |
Kansas |
Jamie Yearout, Stilwell, wrote Ann M. Martin, author of A Corner of the Universe |
Corinne Andresen, Overland Park, wrote Madeline L'Engle, author of A Swiftly Tilting Planet |
Ammarah Usmani, Wichita, wrote Firoozeh Dumas, author of Funny in Farsi |
Kentucky |
Elizabeth Guthrie, Bowling Green, wrote to Pam Muñoz Ryan, author of Esperanza Rising |
Braden Deifel, Louisville, wrote to Wilson Rawls, author of Where the Red Fern Grows |
Lydia Pope, Danville, wrote to Chris Bohjalian, author of Midwives |
Louisiana |
Mary Beth Oliver, Metairie, wrote to Gail Giles, Dead Girls Don't Write Letters |
Danielle Sermon, Boyce, wrote to Allan Zullo and Mara Bovsun, authors of Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust |
No winner selected this year on this competition level |
Maine |
Ben McKenna, Appleton, wrote to Gary Paulsen, author of The Voyage of the Frog |
Dana Vigue wrote to Janet Shaw, author of Meet Kaya |
Mike Weber, Auburn, wrote to Alex Sanchez, author of The Rainbow Boys |
Maryland |
Karina Sharma, Cumberland, wrote to Pam Muñoz Ryan, author of Esperanza Rising |
Kaley Booth, Salisbury, wrote to Ann M. Martin, author of A Dog's Life: Autobiography of a Stray |
Maggie Tighe, Frederick, wrote to Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World |
Massachusetts |
*Michael Hampton, East Longmeadow, wrote to Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea |
Ja-Lene Scott-Dottin, Somerville, wrote to Sharon Draper, author of Copper Sun |
*Ryan Heffrin, Marblehead, wrote to Jodi Picoult, author of Nineteen Minutes |
Michigan |
Phoebe Brown, Birmingham, wrote to Sarah Miller, author of Miss Spitfire |
Gabrielle Montesanti, Howell, wrote to Jesse Stuart, author of Come to My Tomorrowland |
Katelyn Wright, Battle Creek, wrote to Gerda Weissman Klein, author of All But My Life |
Minnesota |
Eliza Edwards, St. Paul, wrote to Mother Goose, author of My Very First Mother Goose |
*Anna Priore, Kenyon, wrote to Clarence K. Larson, author of A Long March Home |
Rachel Finkbeiner, Ramsey, wrote to F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby |
Mississippi |
Gabriel Phillips, Coldwater, wrote to Dav Pilkey, author of Captain Underpants |
Andrew Scott Wiggins, Laurel, wrote to Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game |
Niah Jamerson, Starkville, wrote to William Shakespeare, author of Romeo and Juliet |
Missouri |
Tyler Hall, Mathews, wrote to Mark Twain, author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
Sharon Han, Creve Coeur, wrote to Gabrielle Zevin, author of Elsewhere |
Michael Musgrave, Maryland Heights, wrote to Stephen Hawking, author of A Brief History of Time |
Montana |
Meranie Vercio, Great Falls, wrote to Katy Pistole, author of Morning Glory |
Mariah N. Wearley, Choteau, wrote to J. K. Rowling, author of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone |
Leah Bryan, Roundup, wrote to Louisa May Alcott, author of An Old Fashioned Girl |
Nebraska |
Ellen Friesen, Lincoln, wrote to Lois Lowry, author of Number the Stars |
Itachi Sanchez, Lincoln, wrote to Charles Finn, author of Please Hear What I'm Not Saying |
Andrew Squires, Lincoln, wrote to Leonard Peltier, author of Prison Writings: My Life Is my Sun Dance |
Nevada |
Jamyka Robinson, Las Vegas, wrote to Alan Lawrence Sitomer, author of Hip Hop High School |
Amanda Marks, Las Vegas, wrote to Scott Westerfeld, author of Uglies |
Suzette Smart, Winnemucca, wrote to Hal Borland, author of When the Legends Die |
New Hampshire |
Angela Wang, Nashua, wrote to Beverly Cleary, author of Ramona the Pest |
Sydnie Spencer, Lee, wrote to Carolyn Mackler, author of The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things |
Livie Lane, Dover, wrote to Jodi Picoult, author of My Sister's Keeper |
New Jersey |
Chris Farkouh, Rumson, wrote to Elie Wiesel, author of Night |
Courtney La Costa, Berkeley Heights, wrote to Paula Danzinger and Ann M. Martin, authors of Snail Mail No More |
*Marissa Brogger, Rumson, wrote to
Sue Monk Kidd, author of The Secret Life of Bees |
New Mexico |
Meagen Lin, Cedar Crest, wrote to Deepak Chopra, author of Keeper |
Shaquelle Pettes, Las Cruces, wrote to Thomas J. Dygard, author of The Backfield Package |
Julia Ottenstein, Albuquerque, wrote to Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha |
New York |
*Anne Le, Staten Island, wrote to Rafe Martin, author of Birdwing |
*Daniel Lee, Great Neck, wrote to Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird |
Christina Troitino, Clifton Park, wrote to Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner |
North Carolina |
Amber Parker, Matthews, wrote to Lisa Yee, author of Millicent Min, Girl Genius |
Leah Howard, Apex, wrote to Scott Westerfeld, author of Uglies |
Richard Deans, Rocky Mount, wrote to Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference |
North Dakota |
Savannah Husebye, Bismarck, wrote to O. T. Nelson, author of The Girl Who Owned a City |
Micaela Gerhardt, Bismarck, wrote to Sharon Creech, author of Walk Two Moons |
Liz Collin, Bismarck, wrote to Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild |
Ohio |
Lilah Kalfus, Orange, wrote to Tony Diterlizzi and Holly Black, author of The Spiderwick Chronicles |
Sterling Streb, Columbus, wrote to Lisi Harrison, author of The Clique |
Sunia Arif, Strongsville, wrote to Mariane Pearl, author of A Mighty Heart |
Oklahoma |
Haydn Kirkpatrick, Edmond, wrote to Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull |
Monica Glover, Moore, wrote to Jack Canfield, author of Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul |
Jesse Walton, Washington, wrote to Dave Pelzer, author of A Man Named Dave |
Oregon |
Hunter Hastings, Springfield, wrote to Lawrence Taylor, author of Taylor |
Jesse Turner, Portland, wrote to Barbara Robinson, author of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever |
Maya Lim, McMinnville, wrote to Anne Lamott, author of Bird by Bird |
Pennsylvania |
Maddie Roach, Malvern, wrote to J. K. Rowling, author of The Harry Potter series |
Carly Houlahan, Rosemont, wrote to Dr. Seuss, author of Oh, The Places You'll Go |
Samantha Weber, Freeport, wrote to Elie Wiesel, author of Night |
Rhode Island |
Julia Zubiago, East Greenwich, wrote to J. K. Rowling, author of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone |
Nolan McHale-Rossi, Barrington, wrote to Mary Roach, author of Stiff |
*Gabrielle Sclafani, Barrington, wrote to Wally Lamb, author of She's Come Undone |
South Carolina |
Lindsay Pollard, Clemson, wrote to Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, author of How I Came To Be a Writer |
Sinead Rose-Innes, Greer, wrote to Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak |
Rhett Ricard, Pomaria, wrote to Pat Conroy, author of My Losing Season |
South Dakota |
Peyton Sanders, North Sioux City, wrote to Simon Adams, author of World War II Eyewitness |
Denai Likness, Watertown, wrote to John Grogan, author of Marley and Me |
Amanda Jones, Claremont, wrote to Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner |
Tennessee |
Abby Glover, Milan, wrote to Pat Brisson, author of Sky Memories |
Megan Lee, Memphis, wrote to Wendelin Van Draanen, author of Flipped |
Ayesha Usmani, Memphis, wrote to Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club |
Texas |
Elaine Parizot, Houston, wrote to Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, author of Sang Spell |
Danielle Strasburger, Austin, wrote to Henning Mankell, author of Secrets In the Fire |
Charlie Caplan, Houston, wrote to Robert Jordan, author of Knife of Dreams |
Utah |
Quinn Howe, Murray, wrote to Malka Drucker and Michael Halperin, authors of Jacob's Rescue |
Lindy Hughes, Salt Lake City, wrote to Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief |
Mary Lauren Harris, Layton, wrote to Anne Frank, about The Diary of Anne Frank |
Vermont |
Katherine (Lydia) Ham, Sheffield, wrote to Elizabeth Winthrop, author of Counting On Grace |
No winner selected this year on this competition level |
No winner selected this year on this competition level |
Virginia |
Zach Rieman wrote to Gerald Morris, author of The Squire, His Knight and His Lady |
Brain Desgrosiellier, Palmyra, wrote to Andy McNab, author of Traitor |
*Courtney Hartnett, King George, wrote to Laura Hillenbrand, author of Seabiscuit |
Washington |
McKenzie Dent, Puyallup, wrote to Alice Mead, author of Soldier Mom |
Jessica Jang, Olympia, wrote to Richard Adams, author of Watership Down |
Alayna Chamberland, Olympia, wrote to Wally Lamb, author of She's Come Undone |
West Virginia |
Laken Autrey, Princeton, wrote to Kimberly Willis Holt, author of My Louisiana Sky |
Alexandra Flanigan, Morgantown, wrote to J. R. R. Tolkien, author of Lord of the Rings |
Rachel Hoffpauir, Paden City, wrote to Scott Westerfeld, author of Uglies |
Wisconsin |
Matthew Stokdyk, Sheboygan Falls, wrote to Edgar Allen Poe, author of "Evening Star" |
Taylor Kurowski, Green Bay, wrote to Wendelin Van Draanen, author of Runaway |
Tracy Haack, Clintonville, wrote to J. K. Rowling, author of The Harry Potter series |
Wyoming |
Gabriella LaBazzo, Cody, wrote to Ruth White, author of Buttermilk Hill |
Lila Jackson, Encampment, wrote to Frewin Jones, author of The Faerie Path |
Christopher Guiden, Worland, wrote to Ben Mikaelsen, author of Petey |
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