Dahlheimer also received a $1,000 scholarship from the reading promotion's
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This year's selection , Hoot, is appropriate for family reading. For more information, go
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Liza McFadden, President of the nonprofit Volunteer Florida Foundation,
which manages Governor Bush's Family Literacy Initiative and the Read
Together, Florida literacy promotion , also announced that second-place winner
is Chase Cicale, sixth-grader at Rodgers Middle School in Riverview (Tampa
Bay). The competition and final
judging were managed by Just Read, Florida! of the Florida Department of
Education.R. Wilson's electronic Standard
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Dahlheimer's school, St. The contest invited students to create a new ending to Carl
Hiaasen's award-winning book Hoot.
"The imagination and creativity of Florida students is astounding, and is
magnified in the writing of these students," said McFadden.
Read Together, Florida, the one state/one book literacy promotion, is a
project of the Governor 's Family Literacy Initiative, managed by the nonprofit
Volunteer Florida Foundation. The strategic partnership with H.
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Final selection was made by Just Read, Florida!/Florida Department
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Preliminary essay contest judging was performed by representatives from
Washington Mutual, Starbucks Coffee Company and Barnes + Noble .
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perform quick core and gap analyses of their book collections by
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most collection development.W. Wilson products are created for
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Both students have
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state, the promotion has been even better than we dreamed.

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Placing third in the contest is Amber Zarichniak, an eighth-grader at
Sugarloaf Elementary Middle School on Summerland Key. The film is being produced by Walden Media (Holes, Because of Winn
Dixie), Frank Marshall (The Bourne Supremacy, Seabiscuit) and Jimmy Buffet.org . Wilson to
bring librarians a long-awaited collection development tool which
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Peter Catholic School, received a $1,000 award from
Washington Mutual. Wilson's Standard Catalogs.
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The presentation took place at the Orlando
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Dahlheimer also will visit Governor Jeb
Bush in Tallahassee in June. Walden Media will also be
developing a broad educational offering of classroom and library materials for
teachers, librarians and after-school leaders nationwide.VolunteerFloridaFoundation.com.

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- Part of Governor Bush's Read Together, Florida Essay Contest -

- Second-place Winner from Tampa Bay, Third-place from the Keys -

ORLANDO, Writer/Director Wil Shriner (Frasier,
Becker) presented sixth-grader Zak Dahlheimer of Deland with a walk-on movie
role in the screen adaptation of Hoot, an award for winning first place in the
Read Together, Florida essay contest, part of Governor Jeb Bush's Family
Literacy Initiative.
The contest was open to all middle school students in Florida and was part
of the one book/one state reading promotion Read Together, Florida, which is
designed to enhance the love of reading. Each of the three winners received a
personally inscribed copy of Hoot from Hiaasen ."
Involvement with the movie, which will be filmed in Florida this summer,
is made possible by New Line Cinema, Walden Media and The Kennedy/Marshall
Company.
The Hoot movie script was written and will be directed by Shriner. Zak Dahlheimer's teacher and parents also
will be invited to the movie set at that time. Participating organizations include the State Library and Archives of
Florida , the Department of Education's Office of Just Read, Florida!, the
Florida Center for the Literary Arts at Miami Dade College, Starbucks Coffee
Company, Random House Children's Books, Comcast, Barnes + Noble, Florida Press
Association and local libraries and bookstores across the state. Read Together ,
Florida ran from March 1 to April 30. Bowker.R.BooksInPrint. Wilson databases--indexes, abstracts ,
full text resources, plus the acclaimed Standard Catalogs--meet the
research needs of customers around the globe.

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The movie will be filmed in Florida this summer. Barnes +
Noble also will give the second-place winner a gift certificate to the
bookstore.

Contact:
Fonda Anderson , Volunteer Florida Foundation
727-821-2056, FondaAnderson@aol.

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The student's essay will appear in this year's edition of
Beginnings, a journal for first-time writers, published by the Center for the
Literary Arts at Miami Dade College. More than 1,200 essays were submitted
across Florida . "Read Together,
Florida is designed to get everyone excited about reading.

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Bowker,
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today announced that it has signed an agreement with the H. Bowker has been
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years and H. In addition, comprehensive
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Writer/Director Shriner Presents Deland Student with Movie Role in Hiaasen's Hoot Being Filmed in Florida

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created with input from librarians nationwide.'"
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