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DALLAS PUBLIC LIBRARY 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 Jan Gifford, Public Information, Dallas Public Library, 214-670-7380 or Gail Bialas, Texas Center for the Book, 214-670-7808.

See also:

2001 Winners of Letters About Literature Essay Contest

1999 Winners of Letters About Literature Essay Contest

1998 Winners of Letters About Literature Essay Contest

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