And the winners are ...

The 2010 New Hampshire Letters About Literature competition received 684 entries in the from New Hampshire students. Of these, 47 letters were selected as New Hampshire LAL Semi-Finalists. From those 47 letters a panel of NH judges selected these three as the winners:

• A letter to Judy Blume from Kristin Chan , a fifth grader at Infant Jesus School (Nashua, NH), was selected as 2010 Level I NH winner.
• Lauren Kiessling , an student at Haverhill Cooperative Middle School, wrote the 2010 Level II NH winning letter to Jodi Picoult.
• Sarah Schott, a student at Belmont High School wrote the letter that was selected as the 2010 Level III NH winner. She did not give us permission to publish her letter.

The 2010 NH Letters About Literature judges were: Georgeanne Boyd, a teacher at Plymouth Regional HS; Walter Butts, NH Poet Laureate; Ann Hoey, Youth Services Coordinator, NH State Library; author Lita Judge; Albert McKeon, a reporter at The Telegraph; and Christopher Rose, a teacher at the Mary A. Fisk School.