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2005 STATE WINNERS
National Winners in BOLD
State |
Level I grades 4-6 |
Level II
grades 7-8 |
Level III
grades 9-12 |
Alabama |
Carter Goodwyn, Montgomery, to Lillie Paterson,
author of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Freedom Movement |
Leslie Kraynak, Spanish Fort, to Antoine De
Saint-Expuery, author of The Little Prince |
Ellen Cresay, Florence, to C. S. Lewis, author
of The Lion, the Witch, and the
Wardrobe |
Alaska |
Cassidey Walker, Dutch Harbor, to Martin Luther
King Jr., author of “I Have a Dream” speech |
Marshall Farris, Wasilla, to Mitch Albom, author
of Tuesdays with Morrie |
Jenna Blackburn, Kenai, to Harper Lee, author
of To Kill a Mockingbird |
Arizona |
Moriah Kandi Greathouse, Tempe,
to Jerry Spinelli, author of Loser | Sergio José Cañez,
Tuson, to J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings
series |
Kathleen Conti, Tucson, to Madeline
L’Engle, author of A Ring of Endless
Light |
Arkansas |
Benjamin Dardas, Harrison, to Lois
Lowry, author of The Giver |
Camille Coston, Little Rock, to
Tamora Pierce, author of Trickster’s Choice |
Elisa Shea, Bismarck, to David
Pelzer, author of A Child Called It |
California |
Kelsey Woo, Newport Beach, to Betty
Smith, author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
Laura Gibson, Upland, to Marian
Hale, author of The Truth About Sparrows |
Hann-Shuin Yew, San Jose, to Iris
Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking |
Colorado |
Emma Thompson, Denver, to Lois
Lowry, author of The Giver |
Gabe Goodman, Greeley, to Terry
Trueman, author of Stuck in Neutral |
Brad Young, Colorado Springs, to
T.H. White, author of the Once and Future King |
Connecticut |
Anna Alferi, West Hartford, to Andy Lipman,
author of Alive at 25 |
Sophia Harrington, West Hartford, to Georges
Duplaix, author of The Big Brown
Bear |
Abbe Muller, West Hartford, to Elie Weisel,
author of Dawn |
District of Columbia |
Nina Silverberg, to Sharon Creech, author of
Walk Two Moons |
Christopher Prust, to Albert Marrin, author
of Hitler |
Yesenia Ventura, to Mitch Albom, author of
Tuesdays with Morrie |
Florida |
Terry Hemmingway, Land O’ Lakes,
to Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, author of Shiloh
|
Alexandra Mulligan, Coral Springs, to Judy Blume, author
of Are You There, God?
It’s Me, Margaret |
Mary Kate Floyd, Weston, to Sue
Mayfield, author of Drowning Anna |
Georgia |
Caitlin Whitehead, Franklin, to
Ursula K. LeGuin, author of Catwings |
Ashley Price, Macon, to Anne Frank,
author of The Diary of Young Girl |
Jung (Mary Beth) Yoon, to Bill
Watterson, author of Calvin & Hobbes |
Hawaii |
Sydney Yoshioka, Honolulu, to Kate Dicamillo,
author of The Tale of Despereaux
|
Emma de Vries, Kailua, to O. Henry, author
of “The Gift of the Magi” |
Maran Osakoda, Kapaa, to Dave Pelzer, author
of A Child Called It |
Illinois |
Mitchell Curtis Deck, Peoria, to Keith Brandt,
author of Lou Gehrig, Pride of the Yankees |
Jocelyn Garibay, Bloomingdale, to Steven Levenkron,
author of The Luckiest Girl
in the World |
Matthew Levine, Evanston, to Lance Armstrong,
author of It’s Not About
the Bike |
Indiana |
Logan Rassel, Valparaiso, to J. K. Rowling,
author of the Harry Potter series |
Christina Goggin, Cambridge City, to Emily
Dickinson, author “If I Can
Stop One Heart from Breaking” |
Shannon O’Halloran, Muncie, to Sylvia
Plath, author of The Bell Jar |
Iowa |
Erica Bjelland, Decorah, to Patricia Reilly
Giff, author of Pictures of Hollis Woods |
Bekah Hanish, Badger, to Lynn and Gilbert Morris,
author of Driven with the Wind |
Edward Chen, Ames, to Albert Camus,
author of The Stranger |
Kentucky |
Daniel Kiesling, Lexington, to Emily Rodda,
author of Rowan of Rin
| K. C. Holbert, Bardstown, to J. R. R. Tolkien,
author of The Lord of the Rings
trilogy |
None selected this year |
Louisiana |
None selected this year |
None selected this year |
Rachel Clark, Baker, to L. M. Montgomery, author
of Emily Climbs |
Maine |
Sean Fay, Camden, to Carl Hiaasen, author of
Hoot
| Ansley White, Cumberland, to Jean Ferris, author
of Eight Seconds |
Katelyn E. Roedner, Saco, to Daniel Quinn,
author of My Ishmael |
Maryland |
Darcy Costello, Columbia, to Mildred D. Taylor,
author of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
|
Chelsea Heatley, Crofton, to Judy Blume, author
of Are You There, God? It’s
Me, Margaret |
Ashleigh Jobson, Annapolis, to the anonymous
author of Go Ask Alice |
Massachusetts |
Karlee Sullivan, Ayer, to Shel Silverstein,
author of “The Voice”
|
Katharine Henry, Melrose, to Frances Hodgson
Burnett, author of The Secret Garden |
Karen Wilfrid, to Katherine Mansfield,
author of the story “Miss Brill” |
Michigan |
Crystel Barbee, Detroit, to Madonna, author
of English Roses
| Carissa Shalosky, Hillsdale, to Kimberly Kirberger,
author of No Body’s
Perfect |
Anne Pedtke, Laingsburg, to Ray Bradbury, author
of Dandelion Wine |
Minnesota |
Laura Thompson, Bemidji, to David Pelzer, author
of A Child Called It |
Stephen Kindt, Excelsior, to Vince Lombardi,
author of “What It Takes to
be Number 1” speech |
Aaron LaFave, Faribault, to J. D. Salinger,
author of The Catcher in the Rye |
Mississippi |
None selected this year
| Kale Green, Ocean Springs, to Arthur C. Clarke,
author of 2061: Odyssey Three |
None selected this year |
Missouri |
Katherine Petrullo, St. Louis, to Virginia
Hamilton, author of Bluish
|
Lauren Croll, Columbia, to Terry McMillan,
author of Mama |
Jessica Lemaster, Nixa, to Charles Frazier,
author of Cold Mountain |
Montana |
Josie Rundle, Bigfork, to Ben Mikaelsen, author
of Petey |
Nicole Lightner, Chateau, to Louis Sachar,
author of Holes |
Jenny Turk, Joliet, to L.M. Montgomery, author
of Anne of Green Gables |
Nebraska |
Fiona Loggie, Omaha, to Dianne Gray, author
of Holding Up the Earth |
Elizabeth Milan, Herman, to Misty Bernall,
author of She Said Yes |
Alexander J. Lin, Lincoln, to Mark Twain, author
of A Connecticut Yankee
in King
Arthur’s Court |
Nevada |
None selected this year
| Gaby Al-Dabbagh, Las Vegas, to Harper Lee,
author of To Kill a Mockingbird |
None selected this year |
New Hampshire |
Shauna Casey, Salem, to Patricia Polacco, author
of Thank You, Mr. Falker |
Evelyn Anne Bulkeley, Plainfield, to Thorton
Wilder, author of Our Town |
None selected this year |
New Jersey |
Olivia Boser, Rumson, to Cherie Bennet and
Jeff Gottesfeld, author of Anne Frank and Me
|
Megan Hartwick, Mahwah, to Lois Lowry, author
of The Messenger |
Sanders Berstein, Mountain Lakes, to Humphrey
Carpenter, author of J.R.R. Tolkien,
a Biography |
New Mexico |
Joey Roback, Placitas, to Jerry Spinelli,
author of Loser |
Christian A. Zikmanis, Las Cruces, to Lois
Lowry, author of The Giver |
Heather Berghmans, Stanley, to Anne Rice, author
of Interview with the Vampire |
New York |
Matthew Siegel, Grand Island, to Elizabeth
George Speare, author of The Sign of the Beaver |
Vivian Yu, Brooklyn, to Jerry Spinelli, author
of Stargirl |
Corina Encarnacion, Corona, to Franz Kafka,
author of “The Metamorphosis” |
North Carolina |
Amira Elmalawny, Winston-Salem, to Kate DiCamillo,
Tale of Despereaux |
Sabrina Christensen, Asheville, to J. K. Rowling,
author of Harry Potter and
the Sorcerer’s Stone |
Hayley Gula, Mooresville, to Livia Bitton-Jackson,
author of I Have Lived a Thousand
Years |
North Dakota |
Mia Barnett, Fargo, to Ann M. Martin, author
of A Corner of the Universe
|
Macy Egeland, Bismarck, to Robert Newton Peck,
author of The Day No Pigs Would Die |
Xiaowen Li, Fargo, to Toni Morrison, author
of The Bluest Eye |
Ohio |
Sahar Atassi, Westlake, to C. S. Lewis, author
of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
|
Rachel Clifton, Struthers, to Kathleen Benner
Duble, author of Bridging Beyond |
Kristin Burnside, Canton, to Alice Sebold,
author of The Lovely Bones |
Oklahoma |
Joey C. De Angelis, Tulsa, to Jerry Spinelli,
author of Maniac Magee |
Amy Tai, Tulsa, to Amy Tan, author
of The Joy Luck Club |
Sarah Gibson, Fort Gibson, to Charles Dickens,
author of A Tale of Two Cities |
Oregon |
Latricia Shaw, Springfield,
to Dave Pelzer, author of A Child Called It |
Erica Berry, Portland, to Cornelia
Funke, author of Inkheart |
Rosemary Engelfried, Hillsboro,
to Lee Hammond, author of Draw Horses |
Pennsylvania |
Luke Edmondson, State College, to Louis Sachar,
author of Holes |
Kristen Soforic, Mt. Pleasant, to Madeline
L’Engle, author of A Wrinkle
in Time |
Anna Eichner, Tarentum, to J. M. Barrie, author
of Peter Pan |
Rhode Island |
Angela Russo, West Greenwich, to Wendelin
Van Draanen, author of the Sammy Keyes books |
Katherine Zullo, North Kingston, to Eireann
Corrigan, author of You Remind Me
of You |
Jennifer Plume, Riverside, to J. K. Rowling,
author of Harry Potter and the Order
of the Phoenix |
South Carolina |
Mallory Blackmon, Lancaster, to Patricia Polacco,
author of Thank You, Mr. Faulker |
Brittany Cash, Chesnee, to Randy Powell, author
of Dean Duffy |
Amy Zhang, Columbia, to Amy Tan, author of The
Joy Luck Club |
South Dakota |
Lottie A. Grimshaw, Mission, to Laura Ingalls
Wilder, author of The Little House on the Prairie series |
Paige Willett, Sioux Falls, to Alan Zullo and
Mara Bovsun, authors of Survivors, True Stories of Children
in the Holocaust |
Meaghan Downs, Presho, to Emily Bronte, author
of Jane Eyre |
Tennessee |
Isabelle Todd, Memphis, to Judy Blume, author
of Double Fudge |
Natalie Jacewicz, Memphis, to Daniel Keyes,
author of Flowers for Algernon |
Becca Johnson, Memphis, to Frank O’Hara,
author of the poem “Steps” from Lunch Poems |
Texas |
Dulce Diaz, Garland, to E. B. White,
author of Trumpet of the Swans |
Charlie Minato, Plano, to Walter
Dean Meyers, author of Slam |
Jeff Derbyshire, Bellaire, to Leon Uris, author of Trinity |
Utah |
Shelby Nash, Murray, to Jerry Spinelli,
author of Wringer |
Spencer Thompson, Sandy, to Lois
Lowry, author of The Giver |
Weixin Le, Layton, to Taylor Hartman,
author of The Color Code |
Virginia |
Natalie Kim, McLean, to Christopher
Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963
|
Kristin Lannetti, Norfolk, to David
Pelzer, author of The Lost Boy |
Hannah Danielle Pierce,
Radford, to author of The Westing Game |
Washington |
None selected this year
| Jonathan Li, Seattle, to Michael Crichton,
author of Prey |
None selected this year |
West Virginia |
Ian Lovern, Bluefield, to George
Orwell, author of Animal Farm |
Alison Lester, Princeton, to J.
R. R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit |
Carolyn Garcia, Fairmont, to Sharon
Creech, author of Bloomability |
Wisconsin |
Lakshmi Varanasi, Racine, to Gloria Whelan,
author of Homeless
Bird |
Jada Straub, Wisconsin Rapids, to Virginia
Wolff, author of Make Lemonade |
Kira Labby, Shawano, to Margery Williams, author
of The Velveteen Rabbit |
Wyoming |
Rebecca Thompson, Casper, to Kate McMullan,
The Story of Harriet Tubman
| Katie Allegretto, Gillette, to Laurie Halse
Anderson, author of Speak |
Jesse Busch, Worland, to Lois Lowry, author
of The Giver |
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