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STATE WINNERS
Awards Presented through Affiliate
State Centers for the Book
*National Winner
**Placed in the top five or six on the national level
State |
Level I grades 4-6 |
Level II
grades 7-8 |
Level III
grades 9-12 |
Alabama |
Katherine Williams, Auburn, to Leo Lesieg, I
Wish I Had Duck Feet |
Cindy Jia, Tuscaloosa, to William Shakespeare,
Twelth Night |
None selected |
Alaska |
Kendall Angeline Masneri, Anchorage, to Louis
Sachar, There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom |
Diana Lower, Girdwood, to Ms. Kaysen, Girl
Interrupted |
Robin Lawrence, Seward, to Mr. Card, Enders
Shadow |
Arizona |
Paulina Avalos, Tucson, to Louis Sachar, Sideways
School Series |
Illyssa Mauldin, Gilbert, to Scott O'Dell, Island
of the Blue Dolphin |
Kim Hoster, Cottonwood, to Alice, Go Ask
Alice |
Arkansas |
*Harry Maddox, Searcy, to Natalie
Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting |
Elizabeth Dare, Searcy, to Wilson
Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows |
Josh Abbuhl, Clarksville, to George
Orwell, 1984 |
California |
**Andrew Kreitzman, Corte
Madera, to Andrea Warren, Surviving Hitler |
Julia Havard, Saratoga, to Pablo
Nerudo, Odes to Common Things |
Wenny Hsieh, Pleasanton, to Amy
Tan, The Joy Luck Club |
Colorado |
Jenny Nill, to Jane Yolen, The
Devil's Arithmetic and Ethan Robertson, Littleton, to
Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia |
Sara Hayden, Ft. Collins, to Paulo
Coelho, The Alchemist |
Kelly Bastron, Littleton, to Munro
Leaf, The Story of Ferdinand and John Christiansen,
Littleton, to George Orwell, 1984 |
Connecticut |
Larry Spada, Rocky Hill, to Pam Conrad, A
Ghost Story |
Arielle Jaffe, West Hartford, to Robert Lipsyte,
One Fat Summer |
Asdis Thordardottir,
West Hartford, to George Orwell, 1984 |
District of Columbia |
*Gideon Bender to Lois Lowry, The Giver |
Masha L. Casey to Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl
|
Khanh Nguyen to Kaye Gibbons, Ellen Foster |
Florida |
Reagan Johnson, Palm City, to Margaret
Rey, Pretzel |
Stephen Hill, Lakeland, to Ernest Dimnet, The Art of
Thinking |
Amanda Smolinsky, Port Saint Lucie,
to Chris Van Allsburg, The Polar Express |
Georgia |
Elisabeth O'Quinn, Fitzgerald, to
Margaret Donaldson, Journey into War |
*Frances Choi, Decatur, to Norton
Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth |
Ming Lin, Jr., Valdosta, to Amy
Tan, The Joy Luck Club |
Illinois |
Jena'e Dearing, Deer Creek, to Beverly Cleary,
Dear Mr. Henshaw |
Iliana Miranda, Chicago, to Anke De Vries, Bruises
|
Kristin Ginger, Glen Ellyn, to Janet Fitch,
White Oleander |
Maine |
Cory Boissonneault, Biddeford, to Beverly Cleary,
Runaway Ralph |
**Robert Langton, Edgecomb, to Edward Bloor,
Tangerine |
Nate Farnsworty, Lewiston, to Olaf Stapledon,
Last and First Men |
Maryland |
**Brittany Akers, Williamsport, to June Rae
Wood, The Man who Loved Clowns |
Tiffani Scott, Highland, to Ernest Hemingway,
The Old Man and the Sea |
Andrea Shaw, Laurel, to Leon Uris, Exodus |
Massachusetts |
Taylor Sarousi, Framingham, to Emily Bronte,
Jane Eyre |
Andrea Nordberg, Melrose, to John Hersey, Hiroshima |
**Kate Peter, East Harwich, to Cynthia Voigt,
Dicey's Song |
Minnesota |
**Sarah Lepley, Eagan, to Sharon Creech, Walk
Two Moons |
Madeline McCarty, Plymouth, to Todd Strasser,
Give a Boy a Gun |
Caitlin Shaw, St. Louis Park, to Nevil Shute,
On the Beach |
Missouri |
Michael Leahy, Camdenton, to J.K. Rowling, Harry
Potter and The Scorcerer's Stone |
Caitlin Wanta, Columbia, to Lloyd Alexander,
Time Cat |
Anna Compton, Harrisonville, to Eudora Welty,
One Writer's Beginnings |
Montana |
Indica Larragoite, Lincoln, to Eve Bunting,
Summer of Riley |
**Morielle Stroethoff, Missoula, to Zlata Filipovic,
Zlata's Diary |
*Jazlyn Langford, Molt, to Roald Dahl, Matilda
|
Nebraska |
Hannah Potter, Lincoln, to Bess Streeter Aldrich,
A Lantern in her Hand |
Erin Metzler, Arlington, to Harry Mazer,
A Boy at War |
Eliott Scheffler, Blair, to Sharon Kay Penman,
Falls the Shadow |
New Jersey |
**Kyoo-Eun Jang, Princeton, to Ms. Namioka,
Ties that Break, Ties that Bind |
Dana Eiselen, Ocean City, to Aidan Chambers,
Postcards from No Man's Land |
Ashanti Hubbs, Columbus, to Dr. Maya Angelou,
Phenomenal Woman |
New York |
Amanda Tashjian, Albany, to Ann Norris Baldwin,
A Little Time |
Semantha Shankman, Elwood, to Jerry Spinelli,
Stargirl |
Lindsey Campana, Freedom, to Dr. Seuss, The
Lorax |
North Carolina |
Daniel Vann, Hendersonville, to Kate DiCamillo,
Because of Winn-Dixie |
Sam Louis Taylor, Washington, to Harper Lee,
To Kill a Mockingbird |
Virginia Alldredge, Asheville, to John Irving,
The Cider House Rules |
North Dakota |
Shelby Deckert, Rubgy, to Virginia Euwer Wolff,
Probably Still Nick Swansen |
Breana Schlosser, St. Anthony, to Robert Newton
Peck, Little Heart School |
*Abby Swegarden, Fargo, to Sylvia Plath for
her collected poems |
Ohio |
Casey Munn, Dayton, to Johanna Reiss, The
Upstairs Room |
Lisa Xie, West Chester, to Pearl S. Buck, The
Good Earth |
Ryan Horn, Lancaster, to Samuel L. Clemens,
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
Oregon |
Michael Moyer, Salem, to Lemony
Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events |
Marie Murphy, Salem, to J.R.R. Tolkien,
The Lord of the Rings |
**Jeffrey Hunt, Hermiston, to Steven
King, The Running Men |
Pennsylvania |
Pauline Holdsworth, State College, to Tamora
Pierce, Alanna, The First Adventure |
**Kaylyn Koberna, Doylestown, to Pearl Buck,
Imperial Woman |
Alison Wall, New Britain, to Pearl Buck, The
Good Earth |
South Carolina |
Cassie Harris, Salem, to Will Hobbs, The
Condor Project |
**Krupa Sandhinti, Columbia, to Elie Wiesel,
Night |
Maranda Robinson, Duncan, to Sharon Draper,
Forged by Fire |
Tennessee |
Meredith Marcum, Oak Ridge, to Jack Gantos,
Joey Pigza Loses Control |
Lydia White, Germantown, to C. S. Lewis, The
Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe |
Elizabeth A. Fidler, Maryville, to Lady Margaret
Cavendish, The Life of the Thrice Noble . . .Prince William
Cavendish |
Texas |
Katie Adams, Dripping Springs, to
Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons |
Vicky Ren, Houston, to Shel Silverstein,
The Giving Tree |
Isela Cervantes, Willis, to Lars
Eigner, Travels with Lizbeth |
Utah |
Anna Drysdale, Salt Lake City, to
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince |
Gracey Brimhall, South Jordan, to
Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue |
Liz Philips, Salt Lake City, to
Avi, What do Fish Have to Do with Anything? |
Virginia |
Matt Rowe, Richmond, to Avi, The
Fighting Ground |
Jennifer Ohaski, Winchester, to
Lauren Lee, Stella: On the Edge of Popularity |
Brittany Dick, Charlottesville,
to Susanna Kaysen, Girl Interrupted |
West Virginia |
Jenna Wood, Fairmont, to Susan Pfeffer,
An Unlikely Heroine |
Natalie Campbell, Nitro, to J.K.
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Scorcerer's Stone |
Amber Nixon, Bunker Hill, to Sonya
Sones, Stop Pretending |
Wisconsin |
Emily Wisniewski, Waupaca, to Sharon Creech,
Love That Dog |
Emily Langhorst, Plover, to Tom Jordan, Pre |
Rae Hockers, Sister Bay, to John Steinbeck,
The Grapes of Wrath |
Wyoming |
Meghan Kolf, Douglas, to Kimberly Wills Holt,
My Louisiana Sky |
Sagel Weichman, Jackson, to J.R.R. Tolkien,
The Lord of the Rings |
**Jennifer Shafer, Big Piney, to Louisa Mae
Alcott, An Old- Fashioned Girl |
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