MARYLAND LETTERS ABOUT LITERATURE FINALISTS 2015 Level One (Grades 4-6)

Boonsboro Middle School, Boonsboro Lake Elkhorn Middle School, Columbia Salma Hakam – Peanuts James Dorsey – Amulet Cassandra Woolverton – A Tale Dark and The Bryn Mawr School for Girls, Baltimore Grimm Tahra Khanuja – See You at Harry's Aamina Bora – Candy Bomber

Chesapeake Public Charter School, Tilden Middle School, Rockville Lexington Park Declan Burros – Mockingbird Ariel Gill-Ehrenreich – Surviving Hitler Tome School, North East Cold Spring Elementary School, Potomac Elisabeth McDowell – Out of My Mind Dhruv Pai – A Series of Unfortunate Events Hektor Thompson – Peanuts

Hebbville Elementary School, Baltimore West Towson, Towson Jordan Franklin – Gifted Hands Blake Bayer – Divergent Tatiana Greene – The Giving Tree Kate Carrera – Wonder Ben Chico – Small Steps Highland Park Elementary School, Ben England – May I Cross Your Golden Landover River Mikaela Lyons – The Fault in Our Stars Carson Glikin – A Long Walk to Water Jackson Graney – Brian's Winter Individual Entry, Silver Spring William Lehmann – Brian's Winter Adoniyah Ben-Tsalmiel – A Medal for Leroy Landon Katz – How They Choked Tatum McLaney – Wonder Key School, Annapolis Ryan Quinn – Land of Stories: A Grimm Lizzy Armstrong – The Witch's Boy Warning Amanda Shrader – Out of My Mind Benjamin Raufman – Prisoner B-3087 Nora Shive – Matilda Krieger Schecter Day School, Baltimore Ceci Wetzel – I Am Malala Gillian Blum – The Tortoise and the Hare

MARYLAND LETTERS ABOUT LITERATURE FINALISTS 2015 Level Two (Grades 7-8)

Brooklyn Park Middle School, Baltimore Oakdale Middle School, Ijamsville Tyler Hueffmeier – Gossamer Olivia Giangrasso – My Sister's Keeper Sarah Rubin – Thirteen Reasons Why The Boys' Latin School of Maryland, Emily Reed – “Seven Seconds” Baltimore Theodore LaBonte-Clark – The Little Patapsco Middle School, Ellicott City Princess Uma Phatak – The Waves

The Bryn Mawr School for Girls, Baltimore Roland Park Elementary School, Baltimore Gabrielle Forbes – Still I Rise Colton Ross – A Long Walk to Water

Burleigh Manor Middle School, Ellicott City Samuel Ogle Middle School, Bowie Sathwik Yanamaddi - Gifted Hands Lucia Blotzer-Iannucci – The Mysterious Benedict Society Father Andrew White School, Leonardtown Grace Raddatz – Our Generation Springfield Middle School, Williamsport Stephanie Vicarte – The Miraculous Journey Green Acres School, Rockville of Edward Tulane Gisellah Suleman – “Invictus” St. Anne's School of Annapolis, Annapolis Kent County Middle School, Chestertown Liana Dawson – The Catcher in the Rye Olivia Coleman – Paper Towns Adrianna DiSilvestro – Black Beauty St. Augustine School, Elkridge Marina La Verde – Out of My Mind Lauren Greenhill – The Evolution of Bailey Maristch – The Hunger Games Calpurnia Tate Nellie Stup – Diary of Anne Frank St. Joseph's School, Baltimore Leonard Hall Junior Naval Academy, Heather Shanty – Selected Works of Charles Leonardtown Dickens Thomas Hall – The Hunger Games Washington Episcopal School, Bethesda Maryland School for the Blind, Baltimore Bridget Dick – The Fault in Our Stars Tyler Shallue – Charlotte's Web Ryan Kyle – Unbroken

North Dorchester Middle School, Hurlock West Frederick Middle School, Frederick Hunter Guerra – Wonder Navian Scarlett – “Still I Rise”

Notre Dame Preparatory School, Towson Windsor Knolls Middle School, Mt. Airy Claire Christian – The Outsiders Anne Cameron – Eleanor and Park Juliana Gorman – Night Abigail Kaiss – Night Laurel Mardiney – Night Katie Reiners – Night MARYLAND LETTERS ABOUT LITERATURE FINALISTS 2015 Level Three (Grades 9-12)

Bais Yaakov of Baltimore, Baltimore Kent County High School, Worton Avigial Albert – To Kill a Mockingbird Malique Johnson – Coming of Age in Mississippi Baltimore School for the Arts, Baltimore Courtney Sipes – The Things They Carried Nathan Formwalt – The Giving Tree Middletown High School, Middletown Boys' Latin School of Maryland, Baltimore Julianna Posey – All Wound Up Gideon Endalkachew – The Road Jalen Milton – “Barbie Doll” Mount Hebron High School, Ellicott City Matt Purnell – The Lightning Thief Amrithya Balasubramanian – The Outsiders John Woodward – Every Day Maya Huber – Frankenstein Steven Jin – Carrie Bishop Walsh School, Cumberland Libby Milano – The Kissing Hand Victor Scarpelli – “Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town” Notre Dame Preparatory School, Towson Jean Smith – Alice's Adventures in Clare Boland – Gracefully Grayson Wonderland Allison Hardebeck – Reading Lolita in Tehran Catonsville High School, Catonsville Morgan Peck – Night Emma Runge – The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Oakdale High School, Ijamsville Billy Vaughn – The Fault in Our Stars Cat Flayhart – It's Kind of a Funny Story

Dulaney Valley School, Timonium Oakland Mills High School, Columbia Eva Bacas – The Order of Odd-Fish Arlene Charles – Echoes of an Angel Olga Petrovskikh – Lean In Samantha McParland – It's Kind of a Funny Jack Tarantino – The Other Wes Moore Story Jasmine Taylor – “Still I Rise” Individual Entry, Severna Park Norman Xiong – The Joy Luck Club Parkville High School, Parkville Avery Henningsen – Of Mice and Men James M Bennett High School, Salisbury Amy Vennos – Girl in Translation