Winners

Level I (grades 4-6)

Kanesia Price, grade 6, Unalaska City School District (writing to Hal Granum, author of The Great Eagle Spirit)

Level II (grades 7 & 8)

Meryem Kugzruk, grade 8, Barnette Magnet School, Fairbanks (writing to Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird)

Level III (grades 9-12)

Sophie Wiepking-Brown, grade 11, West High School, Anchorage (writing to Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down)

The top state winners each receive cash awards of $100 and $50 credit on Target.com.

Runners Up

Level I (grades 4-6)

Stony Yanuchi, grade 5, individual entry, Healy (writing to Anthony Horowitz, author of the Alex Rider series)

Level II (grades 7 & 8)

Signe Englert, grade 8, Thorne Bay School, Thorne Bay (writing to Deborah Ellis, author of The Breadwinner)

Level III (grades 9-12)

Gabriel Kewan, grade 11, AVAIL High School, Anchorage (writing to Brian Welch, author of Save Me from Myself)

Level I (grades 4-6)

Robin McKnight, grade 6, Seward Elementary School, Seward (writing to Jennifer Donnelly, author of A Northern Light)

Level II (grades 7 & 8)

Jessie Magnan, grade 7, Teeland Middle School, Wasilla (writing to Wilson Rawls, author of Where the Red Fern Grows)

Mikael Stovarsky, grade 8, Barnette Magnet School, Fairbanks, (writing to Jane Austen, author of Pride and Prejudice)

Level III (grades 9-12)

Nicole Ringland, grade 10, individual entry, Eagle River (writing to Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak)

Haylee Hunter, grade 9, Kenai Central High School, Kenai (writing to Ayn Rand, author of Anthem)

Tessa Bercier, grade 11, AVAIL High School, Anchorage (writing to Jane Yolen and Bruce Coville, authors of Armageddon Summer)

Anna Wichorek, grade 10, individual entry, Anchorage (writing to Kien Nguyen, author of Unwanted)