8 Exeter Students Honored in Letters About Literature

Eight Exeter students are semi-finalists in Letters about Literature.

The competition is a reading and writing promotion program of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, and coordinated in New Hampshire by the Center for the Book at the New Hampshire State Library.

Below is a press released submitted by the Center for the Book at the New Hampshire State Library:

The Center for the Book at the New Hampshire State Library has announced semi-finalists for the 2014 Letters about Literature competition.

This year, forty-seven semi-finalist letters were selected out of 560 letters received from New Hampshire students. Winning letters from three categories -  upper elementary, middle school, and high school students - will be selected and announced at the end of April. The Center for the Book at the New Hampshire State Library will award $100 to each first place winner. State winners will advance to the national competition.

Letters About Literature is a reading and writing promotion program of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, and coordinated in New Hampshire by the Center for the Book at the New Hampshire State Library. To enter, young readers wrote a personal letter to an author explaining how his or her work changed their view of the world or themselves. Readers selected authors from any genre: fiction or nonfiction, contemporary or classic. The contest theme encouraged young readers to explore their personal response to a book and then express that response in a creative, original way.

Congratulations to all the 2014 Letters About Literature New Hampshire semi-finalists!

Adam Cataldo, North Haverhill

Adam Hamel, Milford

Andrew McNeil, Milford

Anna Meldrum, Milford

Arya Patel, Nashua

Cameron Magari, Meriden

Caroline Fischer, Nashua

Chiara Cross, Brookline

Chris Cashman, Exeter

Claire Emily Reynolds, Nashua

Cynthia Kectic, Rindge

Dylan Shedd, Dunbarton

Elizabeth Hunter, Bow

Elizabeth Jones, Meriden

Ella French, Rindge

Erica Kneeland, Exeter

Erin Farley, Exeter

Gavin McGough, Meriden

Hannah Cloonen, Pembroke

Justin Carbone, Exeter

Kylie Greska, Milford

Lindsay Kendall Anikis, Meriden

Luke M. Sandmann, Meriden

Madison Bailey, Pembroke

Marley Mailloux, Hampstead

Matthew Stollstorff, Exeter

Megan Hutar, Durham

Rebecca Durham, Milford

Riley Matthews, Milford

Robert S. Cornett, Milford

Ryan Fischer, Nashua

Salina Chadbourne, Pembroke

Sierah Miles, Milford

Sydnie Breton, Pembroke

Thomas M. Herner, Milford

Timothy Bilik, Milford

Timothy Faulkner, Exeter

Tristan Thompson, Exeter

Tyler Boudreau, Exeter

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Another eight students were recognized as semi-finalists but did not, as of April 14, give permission for the release of their names.