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Letters About Literature
2010 Level I First Place Winner and National Winner

Lara Bagdasarian
UCLA Lab School, Los Angeles
Wrote to Francisco Jiménez, author of The Circuit

  Read Lara's Letter (pdf)
2010 Level 2 First Place Winner

S.B.
Mark Twain Elementary School, Angels Camp
Wrote to Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak

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2010 Level 3 First Place Winner and National Honorable Mention

Michael Egan
Individual Entry, Wilton
Wrote to Neil Gaiman, author of "Instructions"

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Letters About Literature is an annual national contest for students in grades 4 through 12. The students are invited to write a letter to an author (living or dead), in which he or she explains just how the author's work has changed the student's life or view of the world.
Finalists and Semi-Finalists