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Texas Center for the Book
Letters About Literature Essay Contest for Grades 4-12,
2000 Winners
Level One Winner:
Heather Anne Cale's Letter to Anne Frank About Her Book, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Level Two Winner:
Jessica Brier's Letter to Anne Frank About Her Book, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Level One Second Place Winner:
Viet-Bac Pham's Letter to Beverly Cleary About Her Book, Henry and the Clubhouse
Level Two Second Place Winner:
Heena Akhtar's Letter to Tupac Shakur About His Book, The Rose That Grew From Concrete
List of 2000 Texas Semi-Finalists
The 1999-2000 Texas Letters About Literature winners are Jessica Brier of Austin, Texas, for Level Two and Heather Anne Cale of New Caney, Texas, for Level One. Both of these winners wrote letters to Anne Frank about Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. Both of them will come to Houston in April to read their letters before the Texas Association of School Librarians. In the next few weeks, the names of the second place winners/first runners-up will be posted on this site along with the names of the semi-finalists. Watch this site for more information.
Click the links above to read the winning letters.
For more information, contact Marcia Trent, Texas Center for the Book, 214-670-7818.