EACHERS\/LIBRARIANS: Please note that funding for the 2012-2013 program has not yet been approved. Once this happens, LAL will be uploading the new contest guidelines on their website.<\/p>\n
We anticipate some significant changes in who may be eligible to enter, so do please review the new guidelines once they become available.<\/p>\n
This national reading and writing program is sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and presented in partnership with participating affiliate state centers for the book.<\/p>\n
State winners in the Letters About Literature, a national reading and writing program, were recognized with a reception and awards ceremony Saturday, April 7, in Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library on the campus of The University of Alabama.<\/p>\n
The event was sponsored by the Alabama Center for the Book.<\/p>\n
The program asks young people in grades 4 through 12 to write to an author (living or dead) about how his or her book affected their lives.
\nChildren\u2019s author, Kerry Madden, was the guest speaker. Madden applauded and encouraged the students by sharing her life story and explained how everyone has something to write about.<\/p>\n
Six hundred students from across the state of Alabama participated in this year\u2019s contest and wrote to authors as diverse as Jeff Kinney author of \u201cDiary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever\u201d; S. E. Hinton author of \u201cThe Outsiders\u201d; and Gustave Flaubert author of \u201cMadame Bovary.\u201d
\nSixty-four students were selected as state semi-finalists and were invited along with their families and teachers to the awards ceremony. Each semi-finalist received a certificate.<\/p>\n
The top letters in each competition level were announced: Level 1 (grades 4-6), Level 2 (grades 7-8) and Level 3 (grades 9-12). First place winners received a $50 Target GiftCard, $100 from the Alabama Center for the Book and a journal. Second, third and honorable mention winners received cash awards from the Center and journals.<\/p>\n
The three first place winners will now advance to the national competition sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, presented in partnership with Target. Winners will be announced later this month.<\/p>\n
Two national winners in each competition level will receive a $500 Target GiftCard and will designate a favorite library that he or she wishes to receive a $10,000 grant from Target.<\/p>\n
The four national honors recipients from each competition level designate a library to receive a $1,000 Target grant; those students each receive a $50 Target GiftCard.<\/p>\n
Madden is the author of the Smoky Mountain Trilogy: Gentle\u2019s Holler, Louisiana Song and Jessie\u2019s Mountain. Gentle\u2019s Holler received starred reviews from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly and was a New York and Chicago Public Library Pick. Her picture book about Charlie Lucas and Kathryn Tucker Windham, Nothing Fancy About Charlie & Kathryn, will be published next year with her daughter, Lucy, illustrating the text.<\/p>\n
The Alabama Center for the Book (http:\/\/alabamacenterforthebook.lib.ua.eu) works with many organizations, individuals and agencies to promote reading, literacy, publishing, and other book-related activities. The Alabama Center for the Book is the Alabama Affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for the Book and is housed in the University Libraries at the University of Alabama. The Center is located at 711 Capstone Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, in the Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library, room 201.<\/p>\n
Target sponsors Letters About Literature as part of its commitment to supporting education and early childhood reading. Target recognizes the integral role that reading plays in shaping a child\u2019s future, because reading is the foundation for lifelong learning and success.<\/p>\n
Since its creation by Congress in 1977 to \u201cstimulate public interest in books and reading,\u201d the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress (www.Read.gov\/cfb\/) has become a major national force for reading and literacy promotion. A public-private partnership, it sponsors educational programs that reach readers of all ages, nationally and internationally. The Center provides leadership for 52 affiliated state centers for the book (including the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands) and nonprofit reading-promotion partners and plays a key role in the Library\u2019s annual National Book Festival. It also oversees the Library\u2019s Read.gov website and administers the Library\u2019s Young Readers Center.<\/p>\n
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\nCaleb Clarke
\nSpanish Fort Middle School
\nSecond Place<\/strong>
\nHannah Soloff
\nThe Montgomery Academy
\nThird Place<\/strong>
\nFrancie Hill
\nThe Montgomery Academy
\nHonorable Mention<\/strong>
\nJulia Coccaro
\nSpanish Fort Middle School<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nLevel 2 (grades 7-8)<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
\nChenna Christoffer
\nTuscaloosa Academy
\nSecond Place<\/strong>
\nRupa Palanki
\nPhillips Preparatory School (individual entry)
\nThird Place<\/strong>
\nMario Madrigal
\nOxford Middle School<\/div>\n<\/div>\nLevel 3 (grades 9-12)<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
\nClaudia Mitchell
\nRandolph School
\nSecond Place<\/strong>
\nSara Jane Kachelman
\nFlorence High School
\nThird Place<\/strong>
\nClaire Oldfather
\nProvidence Classical School<\/div>\n<\/div>\nLevel 1<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
\nSophia Higgs, Advent Episcopal School
\nAnthony Minopoli, Berry Middle School
\nAdnan Reddy, Berry Middle School
\nAndrew Gedgoudas, Berry Middle School
\nKristen Smith, Berry Middle School
\nTuba Khan, Berry Middle School
\nMegan Seidel, Highlands School
\nAnna Lisa Goodman, Highlands School
\nAda Cohen, Highlands School
\nBisola Adediji, The Montgomery Academy
\nSujin Lee, The Montgomery Academy
\nTara Katz, The Montgomery Academy
\nCatherine Updegraff, The Montgomery Academy
\nMary Jane McConnell, The Montgomery Academy
\nMadelyn Clark, Providence Classical School
\nHannah James, Spanish Fort Middle School
\nLana Stringer, Spanish Fort Middle School
\nHunter Langham, Spanish Fort Middle School
\nMadison Fabber, Spanish Fort Middle School<\/div>\n<\/div>\nLevel 2<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
\nEllie Gorman, Advent Episcopal
\nTomeka Frieson, Advent Episcopal
\nOlivia Minor, Advent Episcopal
\nHarper Johnson, Baldwin Arts and Academics Magnet Middle School
\nBrittney Hudson, Baldwin Arts and Academics Magnet Middle School
\nKara Moncrief, Baldwin Arts and Academics Magnet Middle School
\nZachary Fitzgerald, Baldwin Arts and Academics Magnet Middle School
\nMary Frances Lembke, Highlands School
\nLauren Curry, Oxford Middle School
\nAidan Lambrecht, Providence Classical School
\nMary Katherine Givhan, Providence Classical School
\nDrew Lindley, Providence Classical School
\nAddison Harrison, Tuscaloosa Academy
\nChelsea Alan, Tuscaloosa Academy
\nWilliam Henson, Tuscaloosa Academy<\/div>\n<\/div>\nLevel 3<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
\nGabrielle D’Arcy, Florence High School
\nCaroline Lentz, Florence High School
\nHannah Wright, Florence High School
\nTeena Patel, Florence High School
\nKaitlin Moon, Pelham High School
\nPaige Knight, Pelham High School
\nStormy Womack, Pelham High School
\nAshley Brown, Pelham High School
\nBelle Griffin, Pelham High School
\nEmily Rames, Pelham High School
\nAlexis Lang, Pelham High School
\nJoshua Daniles, Providence Classical
\nMatthew McDavid, Providence Classical
\nOlivia Miller, Providence Classical
\nSavannah Silver, Providence Classical
\nFaith Buckley, Providence Classical
\nElizabeth Cummings, Providence Classical<\/div>\n<\/div>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"