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Letters About Literature - Winner's List for 2001
National Winner, Level I. Hannah Bauchat, grade 7, Columbia,
SC, for her letter to Steven King about The Green Mile
National Winner, Level II. Jennifer Todd, grade 8, Salt Lake
City, UT, for her letter to Jane Austen about Pride and Prejudice
STATE WINNERS
AWARDS PRESENTED THROUGH AFFILIATE STATE
CENTERS FOR THE BOOK
(Level I on first line and Level II on second line under
each state unless otherwise noted)
ALASKA
Alaina Alderson, grade 5, Eagle River, AK, to J. K. Rowling,
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Robert Kirchner, grade 10, Anchorage, AK, to Mitch Albom, Tuesdays
with Morrie
ARIZONA
Allissia Romero, grade 5, Tucson, AZ, to Louis Sachar, Holes
Carly Parsons, grade 8, Marana, AZ, to Natalie Babbitt, Tuck
Everlasting
ARKANSAS
Violet Beals, grade 6, Pearcy, AR, to Joseph Campbell, I
Am the Mountainy Singer
Sarita Perez, Little Rock, AR, to J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter
book series
CALIFORNIA
Min Lee, grade 4, La Palma, CA, to E. B. White, Charlotte's
Web
Minh Huynh, grade 11, San Gabriel, CA, to Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit
451
COLORADO
Jackie Kleinsasser, grade 6, Monument, CO, to Roald Dahl, The
BFG
Kerrie Earley, grade 11, Littleton, CO, to Marguerite Henry,
Misty's Twilight
CONNECTICUT
Pia Crawford-Silva, grade 6, West Hartford, CT, to Jane Yolen,
The Devil's Arithmetic
Cross Woodfield, grade 11, West Hartford, CT, to Margaret Wise
Brown, Goodnight Moon
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Yizhoo Chen, grade 7, Washington, DC, to Piri Thomas, Down
These Mean Streets
Andre Turner, Jr., grade 12, Washington, DC, to Claude Brown,
Manchild in the Promised Land
ILLINOIS
Katherine Black, grade 7, Skokie, IL, to Donald Ladew, Stradivarius
Jeremy Newtson, grade 10, Pleasant Plains, IL, to Henry Aaron
and Lonnie Wheeler, I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story
INDIANA
Jacqueline Klapak, grade 7, Highland, IN, to Helen Kaufmann,
The Story of Beethoven
Catherine E. Dea grade 11, North Manchester, IN, to Mark Twain,
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
KANSAS
Kevin Grunwald, grade 7, Indian Hills Middle School, Shawnee
Mission, KS, to Stephen King, The Green Mile
Curtis Shank , grade 8, Indian Hills Middle School, Shawnee Mission,
KS, to Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
MAINE
Amber Casterlin, grade 4, Brunswick, ME, to Barbara Cooney,
Miss Rumphius
Ethan Hyland, grade 9, Poland, ME, to Stephen Ambrose, Undaunted
Courage
MARYLAND
Brian Warlitner, Huntingtown, MD, to Will Hobbs, Far North
Betsy Seeger, grade 10, Severn, MD, to Mitch Albom, Tuesdays
with Morrie
MASSACHUSETTS
Alison Perry, grade 7, North Brookfield, MA, to Katherine Paterson,
Bridge to Terabithia
Jane Partensky, grade 11, Waltham, MA, to Andrew Marvell, "To
His Coy Mistress" and
Zoe Paschkis, grade 8, Newton , to James Hurst, "The Scarlet Ibis"
MINNESOTA
Brittany Jaekel, grade 6, Champlin, MN, to Anne Frank, Diary
of Anne Frank
Claire Shefchik, grade 10, Stillwater, MN, to Kevin Baker, Dreamland
MISSOURI
Lindsay Wallace, grade 7, Columbia, MO, to Martin Luther King
Jr., "I Have a Dream"
Keely D. White, grade 12, Hopkins, MO, to John Irving, The
Cider House Rules
MONTANA
No Level I winner selected this year from Montana
Chance Schieffert, grade 12, Big Timber, MT, to Wilson Rawls,
Where the Red Fern Grows
NEBRASKA
Travis Johnson, grade 7, Milford, NE, to Jerry Spinelli, Maniac
Magee
Jonas Azzam, grade 9, Lincoln, NE, to Philip Gourevich, "We Regret
To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families:
Stories from Rwanda"
NEW MEXICO
Amanda Orta, grade 6, Las Cruces, NM, to Mildred Taylor, Roll
of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Michelle Grammes, grade 11, Moriarty, NM, to Robert Frost, "The
Road Not Taken"
NORTH CAROLINA
Josey Ellis, grade 5, Boone, NC, to C. S. Adler, Eddie's
Blue-Winged Dragon
Christie Cunningham, grade 9, Jamestown, NC, to Ray Bradbury,
Fahrenheit 451
NORTH DAKOTA
Samantha Offerdahl, grade 7, Bismarck, ND, to Mark Twain,
The Mysterious Stranger
LeAnna Lesmeister, grade 11, Williston, ND, to George Orwell,
Animal Farm
OHIO
Lauren Burke, grade 7, Pickerington, OH, to Irene Hunt, Lottery
Rose
Carlee Tressel, grade 12, Boardman, OH, to F. Scott Fitzgerald,
The Great Gatsby
OKLAHOMA
Shannon Whaley, Edmond, OK, to Cynthia Joye Rowland, The
Monster Within
Blake Stewart, grade 9, Sallisaw, OK, to Harper Lee, To Kill
A Mockingbird
OREGON
Derek Wood, grade 6, Beaverton, OR, to the author of Since
You Went Away
Keely Koda, grade 10, Vale, OR, to Lois Lowry, Number the Stars
PENNSYLVANIA
Kayla Sargeson, grade 7, Harmony, PA, to Anne Frank, Anne
Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Laura K. Smith-Gary, grade 9, Wyalusing, PA, to George Orwell,
1984
SOUTH CAROLINA
Hannah Bauchat, grade 7, Columbia, SC, to Stephen King, The
Green Mile
Abigail Geese, grade 10, Myrtle Beach, SC, to Terry Goodkind,
Wizard's First Rule
TENNESSEE
Ara-Isabel Agato, grade 6, Oak Ridge, TN, to Margarette Haddix,
Running Out of Time
Jose Rodriguez, grade 11, Dyersburg, TN, to Robert Jordan, Wheel
of Times series
TEXAS
Christian Wallace, grade 6, Andrews TX, to Wesley Eure, The
Red Wings of Christmas
Karen Kaczronski, grade 12, The Woodlands, TX, to Jostein Gaarder,
That Same Flower
UTAH
Cutter Bach, grade 5, Park City, UT, to Cynthia Rylant, Dog
Heaven
Jennifer Todd, grade 8, Salt Lake City, UT, to Jane Austin, Pride
and Prejudice
VERMONT
James Gram, grade 6, Montpelier, VT, to Roald Dahl, Charlie
and the Chocolate Factory
Eva Wilkens, grade 12, Hyde Park, VT, to Sonya Sones, Stop
Pretending
VIRGINIA
Ben Urbanski, Grade 7, Vienna, VA, to Anne Frank, The Diary
of Anne Frank
Annetta Fotopoulos. Grade 9, Burke, VA , to Steven Pressfield,
Gates of Fire
WASHINGTON
Austin Tucker, grade 4, Walla Walla, WA, to Jerry Spinelli,
Wringer
Amy Powell, grade 9, Port Orchard, WA, to Maurice Sendak, Where
the Wild Things Are
WISCONSIN
Samantha Bister, grade 7, Menonomee Falls, WI, to Louis Sacher,
Holes
Ashleigh Leitch, grade 8, Cumberland, WI, to Judith Kerr, When
Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
WYOMING
Sterling McCarty, grade 6, Chugwater, WY, to Matt Christopher,
Fighting Tackle
Audra Hawkins, grade 11, Laramie, WY, to Carolyn Keene, Nancy
Drew mystery series
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