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2009-2010 Letters About Literature Competition Award Winners Announced
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
The Letters About Literature program, sponsored by the South Carolina Center for the Book and the Library of Congress, in partnership with Target Stores, is a national reading and writing promotion contest.  To enter, readers write personal letters to an author, living or dead, from any genre, explaining how that author's work changed their way of thinking about the world or themselves.  Nine winners will be honored at an awards ceremony at the State Library’s South Carolina Center for the Book in Columbia. The ceremony will be held on May 7 from 11:00 am to noon in Room 309, 1430 Senate Street, Columbia.  Contest judges and the Director of the State Library will be on hand to present awards.  Winners will be reading their letters and each will receive a check from the South Carolina State Library Foundation ($100 for first place, $50 for second, and $25 for third).  In addition, first place winners receive a $50 gift card from Target stores.

Level I Winners (grades 4-6)
•    1st place     Sydney Hodgin, Westminster        West Oak Middle School, Westminster
•    2nd place     Hannah McKee, Westminster        West Oak Middle School, Westminster
•    3rd place    Abbigail Duncan, Simpsonville        Sterling School, Greenville

Level II Winners (grades 7-8)
•    1st place     Kerry Yan, Greer            Riverside Middle School, Greer
•    2nd place     Camille Lundberg, Simpsonville        Riverside Middle School, Greer
•    3rd place     Sarah Shepard, Simpsonville        Sterling School, Greenville

Level III Winners (grades 9-12)
•    1st place     Christian Myers, Columbia        Dreher High School, Columbia
•    2nd place     Katherine Howell, Greenville        Wade Hampton High School, Greenville
•    3rd place     John Riley, Columbia            Dreher High School, Columbia

 
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