Letters about Literature 2006 Results
The New Jersey Center for the Book proudly announces the winners, the honorable mentions, and the semi-finalists of the 2006 Library of Congress Letters About Literature contest. About 7000 entries were received from New Jersey , an indication of how deeply New Jersey 's teachers and school librarians feel about literacy. The email addresses used for this announcement were garnered from entries and from the Library of Congress, so it is possible that duplicate emails will be received. Only about 1% of the 7000 entries became semifinalists. The judges were quite impressed with the quality of the entries. As one of the judges, Newark Public Library Director Wilma Grey, said, "As I was reading those letters, I was so uplifted by the quality of the writing and the mature thoughts of those young people. What a wonderful job they did." Letters have been sent to the winners, the honorable mentions, and the semi-finalists announcing their great success and requesting a written answer containing an email address where they can be contacted and written permission to use their names. It will be through their email that they will be invited to the statewide ceremony. If you see the name of one of your students, please congratulate them and ask them if they received a letter, and if they did, to please have Mom or Dad answer it. Only one letter will go out; although if we don't receive an answer, we have been known to go to great lengths to seek out that student. Once their written responses are received, they will be acknowledged with an email.
Congratulations to all the students and their teachers and school librarians.
Pat Morris. Chairman, Letters About Literature Project
New Jersey Center for the Book / Library of Congress
lacemaker@nac.net
Level I (grades 4 - 6) |
Winner:
Wesley McLeon
Winning Letter
Honorable Mention:
Lila Milgrom
Semi Finalists:
Sydney Backman
Ryan Bell
Jessica Bishop
Kayla Ciliento
Louis C. (Luke) Dodge
Isabela Dos Santos
Christopher Harwood
Misha Nicole Inniss-Thompson
Kathryn Lee
Khadejah Lionel
Anthony Madle
James Marvosa
Wesley McLeon
Lila Milgrom
Marisol Pacaja
William M. Reinhardt
Zoe Ross-Nash
Michelle Rudshteyn
Ashley Somyk
Taylor Swaak
Jennifer Tang
Gabriel Toledo
Georgiana Wright
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Level II (grade 7 - 8) |
Winner:
Elizabeth Camuti
Winning Letter
Honorable Mention:
Alexandra Trugio
Semi-Finalist:
Girisa Achaibar
Angie Arroyo
Alison Ball
Tara Bisson
Elizabeth Camuti
Jason Comas
Clarissa Conniff
Alexi Corham
Nicole Cosentino
Martin de Bourmont
Rachel DiSalvo
Aparajeeta Duttchoudhury
Betty Glauberzon
Cesar Grandez
Andrew Grieco
Alyson Heller
Samson Huang
Ashley Hudson
Janice Kim
Rachel Koehn
Chris Lancaster
Tiffany Liang
Tiffany Liu
Caryn McCarthy
Mary McNally
Sameen Mian
Kelsey Lynn Miley
Sarah Morgan
Sunny Pacilio
Kelly Pandolpho
Sarah Parker
Disha Patel
Rylee Porter
Sara P.
Mariana Rios
Sandina SaintElien
Thomas Santana
Gabby Santomauro
Samantha Schranck
Becky Sokolow
Daniel Solecki
Grace Son
Vasiliki Triantafillou
Alexandra Truglio
Joshua Uy
Ryan Williams
Jiayan Yu
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Level III (grade 9 - 12) |
Winner:
Kristin Hanratty
Winning Letter
Honorable Mention:
Elisheva Goldman
Semi-Finalists:
Alaine Abuan
Alyssa Bragg
Lisa Marie Camarro
Winston Chen
Casey Cunningham
Mine Demirel
Ashley DiMassimo
Casey Emilius
Bill Fawcett
Stephanie Fox
Samantha Francis
Diana Galvez
Elisheva Goldman
Ashley Grosche
Seidy Guzman
Kristin Hanratty
Ethan Hort
Sarah Huque
Russell Kohlmann
Willow Latham
Kevin Li
Simon Liebling
Chistina Louis
Danielle McArow
James Meissgeier
Nancy Muntz
Katrina Robie
Kimberly Rosa
Zandra Ruiz
Lucas Sachs
Allison Strong
Amanda Swanson
Rebecca N. Thompson
Ati Waldman
Nicole Weingartner
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Additional Information
More about Letters about
Literature
Library of Congress Web
Page for Letters about Literature
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