On Thursday, June 19, 2008, the New Jersey Center for the Book will hold
a reception at Winants Hall on the Rutgers University campus in New
Brunswick, New Jersey.
The occasion is the celebration of the New Jersey winners and finalists
of the 2008 Letters About Literature competition offered by The Center
for the
Book in the Library of Congress, in partnership with Target Stores and
the New Jersey Center for the Book.
The three grade levels represented in the competition are: Level I,
grades 4 - 6; Level II, grades 7 - 8; and Level III, grades 9 -12.
This essay competition is a keystone event that the New Jersey Center
for the Book sponsors and presents simultaneously with the Library of
Congress program in Washington, D.C.
