To All A Mile in My Shoes Participants:
Thank you so very much for your participation in the A Mile in My Shoes writing project. There were so many excellent essays that it was very difficult for our judges to pick the finalists.
Following are the winners in each category:
6th-8th grade (1st place $175, 2nd place $75):
1st Place: Dwight Smith, St. Andrews Middle School
2nd Place: Benchanity Deloach, Morningside Middle School
9th-12th grade (1st place $175, 2nd place $75):
1st Place: Ju'Wan Williams, West Ashley High
2nd Place: Devario C. Reid, Academic Magnet High
Published
by the University of South Carolina Press
Ouachita
Parish Library
Summer Adult Read Selection 2008
“A
moving and powerful autobiography…a sterling example
of the power of an individual voice raised in protest, of
what happens when one person unwaveringly insists on what
is right and just.” New Orleans
Times-Picayune
“Spellbinding…This
book is so well written as told through the voice of Scott,
it is difficult to put it down. Its contents also are of
major importance.” Charleston (SC)
Post and Courier
”The
book was really an eye-opener for me… I have learned
more in that book than in any history I have ever read.” Letter
from young adult reader
“Riveting….
There are three books that I should have been forced to read
as a high school student and which I firmly believe that
all current students should be mandated to read…The
third…is ‘Witness to the Truth’.” Joe
Galeota, Columnist, West Roxbury Bulletin (Boston, MA) |
