Sixteen Bellevue students were honored May 9 in the statewide Letters About Literature contest. Students wrote letters to authors about their books. The competition was sponsored by the Washington State Library and the Library of Congress.

Level 1 (grades 4-6)

Hallie Chen, state semifinalist, for a letter to Gail Carson Levine about the book “The Two Princesses of Bamarre”; Archika Dogra, state semifinalist, to Cynthia Lord about the book “Rules”; Daniel Lim, honorable mention to E.B. White about the book “The Trumpet of the Swan”; Laurent Man, state semifinalist,    to Linda Sue Park    about the book “A Single Shard:’ Aasiyta Sathar, state semifinalist, to Susan S. Adler about the book “Samantha Learns a Lesson”; Sarah Rose Smale, state semifinalist, to Aesop about the book “Aesop’s Fables”; Sarah Xu, state semifinalist, to Veronica Roth about the book “Divergent”; and Maggie Yu, states semifinalist, to R.J. Palacio    about the book “Wonder.”

Level 2 (grades 7-8)

Sophia Cho, state semifinalist, to J.K. Rowling about the book “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.”

Level 3 (grades 9-12)

Bella Aghajanyan, state semifinalist, to     Naoki Higashida about the book “The Reason I Jump”; Mia Baker, state semifinalist, to John Green about the book “The Fault in Our Stars”; Timothy Bi, state semifinalist, to Deborah Wiles about the book “Each Little Bird That Sings”; Tahlia Edgar-Chalker, state semifinalist to Stephen Chbosky about the book “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”; Jakob Picciotto, state semifinalist, to Jenny Nimmo about the book “Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors”; Phoebe Stern, honorable mention to Linda Sue Park about the book “A Long Walk to Water; and Liliane Tansley, state semifinalist    to Tamora Pierce about the book “First Test.”