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Article: West Virginia Center for the Book announces state writing awards
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- August 30, 2006
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The following students are winners in the West Virginia Letters
About Literature program. State winners will advance for national
competition Bayan Misaghi, an eighth-grade student at John Adams
Middle School, and Mashal Sheikh, a ninth-grade student from
Charleston, took top honors in this years West Virginia Letters About
Literature writing contest. Misaghis letter to Lois Lowry, author of
The Giver, was selected as the first-place winner in Level II
competition for children in grades seven through eight and Sheikhs
letter to Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club, was selected as first-
place winner for competition level III (grades nine through 12). All
first-place essays advanced to ...