FREE: Dear America Third Annual Student Writing Contest

The listing, Dear America Third Annual Student Writing Contest has ended.

Paperback book in brand new condition

For the last three years, Scholastic's Arrow Book Club has run a contest challenging students to write a diary entry fom someone in the past, present, or future. In 1999, nearly 6,000 entries were received, including the four winning entries:

In Jodie Hillyard's grand-prize-winning entry Pikadon-don, The World War II Diary of Rieko Murasako, an atomic bomb devastates Nagasaki, Japan, and changes Rieko's life forever.

The Journey to a New Land, The Diary of Hattie Simalina Potch, by first-prize-winner Sara Doran, tells of the difficulties that the Mayflower's passenger endure and of Hattie's own struggles once on land in Plimoth.

In first-prize-winner Nathan Sadasivan's The Diary of Edward Daniel Phillips, Edward, a Union soldier, survives the Battle of Gettysburg.

Volcano of Mont Pelee, The Diary of Nicole Mailhot, Nicole Hillyard's first-prize-winning entry, describes the effect of a volcano on the inhabitants of a Caribbean island in 1902.

Also included are an introductionby Richard Abrahamson, Professor of Literature for Children and Young Adults, University of Houston; a letter from award-winning Dear America author Barry Denenberg; and biographies of the authors of the winning entries.