Contest, Based on the Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The deadline is looming: Wednesday, 2/10/10, so get your submission in the mailbox for the 2010 Big Read Adult Writing Contest. The first place winner will be published in the Post-Dispatch. Write an essay of 250-1,000words in response to the question, How do you think the American childhood has and hasn't changed since the 1840's? There is also a story writing contest in which you can enter an original story in the writing style of Mark Twain.

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