2006 LETTERS ABOUT LITERATURE CONTEST
Letters About Literature 2006 reading list
One of the great things about the Letters About Literature reading/writing contest is that students pick their own books. They're not assigned a book and asked for a report; instead, we ask them to think about the books that have touched them most deeply. Not surprisingly, they write to the authors of a wide range of literature.
So what were they reading in Wyoming this year? Here are the titles chosen by students who placed as semifinalists or higher in Wyoming's Letters About Literature 2006:
Level I - Grades 4-6
- Brink, Carol Ryrie - Caddie Woodlawn: A Frontier Story
- Creech, Sharon - Love That Dog
- Elliot, L.M. - Under a War Torn Sky
- Ellis, Deborah - The Breadwinner
- Flanagan, John - The Ranger's Apprentice
- Haddix, Margaret Peterson - Among the Barons and Among the Betrayed
- Hesse, Karen - Out of the Dust
- Horowitz, Anthony - Eagle Strike
- Hunter, Erin - Warrior series
- Lowry, Lois - The Giver
- Martin, Ann M. - A Corner of the Universe
- Morpurgo, Michael - Private Peaceful
- Parkinson, Siobhan - The Celtic Knot
- Paulsen, Gary - Brian's Return
- Rawls, Wilson - Where the Red Fern Grows
- Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter series
- Snicket, Lemony - A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Steinbeck, John - Of Mice and Men
- Taylor, Theodore - The Bomb
- Thomasma, Kenneth - Moho Wat
- Tolov, Dinko - Clay Characters
Level II - Grades 7-8
- Bernall, Misty - She Said Yes
- Brown, Dan - The Da Vinci Code
- Cray, Jordan - Danger.com/Stalker
- Crow, Chris - Getting Away with Murder
- Draper, Sharon M. - Tear of a Tiger
- Frank, E.R. - America
- George, Jean Craighead - Julie of the Wolves
- Hahn, Mary - Daphne's Book
- Hunt, Angela Elwell - The Heirs of Cahira O'Connor series
- Lowry, Lois - Gathering Blue
- MacHale, D.J. - The Reality Bug
- McDaniel, Lurlene - Telling Christina Goodbye and Rose for Melinda
- Paulsen, Gary - The Foxman
- Pelzer, David - A Child Called It
- Pierce, Tamora - Wild Magic and The Will of the Empress
- Poe, Edgar Allen - all poems and stories
- Pullman, Phillipi - The Golden Compass
- Rawls, Wilson - Where the Red Fern Grows
- Rivers, Francine - The Scarlet Thread
- Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter & the Sorceror's Stone
- Shara, Jeff - Rise to Rebellion
- Stine, R.L. - Fear Street series
- Stoehr, Shelly - Crosses
- Waters, Eric - Rebound
- Zindel, Paul - Confessions of a Teenage Baboon
Level III - Grades 9-12
- Baldacci, David - The Simple Truth
- Benge, Geoff & Janet - Gladys Alward
- Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451
- Burgess, Melvin - Smack
- Calbo, Zamora - Motives
- Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Game
- Cooper, Cynthia - She Got Game
- Crichton, Michael - Jurassic Park
- DeVillers, Julia - How my Personal Private Journal Became a Bestseller
- Faber, David - Because of Romek
- Frank, Anne - The Diary of Anne Frank
- Hemingway, Ernest - For Whom the Bell Tolls
- James, Henry - Washington Square
- Kay, Susan - Phantom
- Kaysen, Susanna - Girl, Interrupted
- Koontz, Dean - The Taking
- Lowry, Lois - The Giver
- McCormick, Patricia - Cut
- McDaniel, Lurlene - Baby Alice is Dying and Lifted up by Angels
- Nicholi, Dr. Armand M. Jr. - The Question of God
- Patterson, James - Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
- Pelzer, David - A Child Called It
- Ross, Allen - Mitakuye Oyasin
- Sachar, Louis - Holes
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Tey, Josephine - The Daughter of Time
- Vonnegut, Kurt - Harrison Bergeron
Contact us
For more information, or to suggest a link:
Tina Lyles, coordinator
Wyoming Center for the Book
2800 Central Ave.
Cheyenne WY 82002
307/777-6338
Fax 307/777-6289
tlyles@wyo.gov
Last Updated 3/31/06