Contest Alert:Letters About Literature

The Center for the Book (part of the Library of Congress) is hosting a contest for grades 4-12 called Letters About Literature. All kids have to do is "write a personal letter to an author, living or dead, from any genre--fiction or nonfiction, contemporary or classic, explaining how that author's work changed the student's way of thinking about the world or themselves." Contest opened Sept. 1, and closes Dec. 14, 2007.