Homeschoolers take top prizes in Youth Authors Contest

Homeschoolers won top honors in several categories of the Piedmont Parent Young Authors Contest this week:

Grades K-1:

1st Place: "The Four Friends" by Michaela Hope Gross, first grade, The Shepherd's School (Home School).

2nd Place: "The Duke of Dork and the King of Kina" by Jasmine Marshall, first grade, Paideia Marshall Home School.

Grades 4-5:

1st Place: "Corey the Toad and the Adventures of Gredimous and Wibowbow" by Corey K. Smith, fifth grade, Smith Acres Academy (Home School).

Grades 6-8:

1st Place: "Gooba Plans a Surprise", by Harper Springer, sixth grade, Chestnut Hill Academy (Home School).

The grand-prize winner for story was "Corey the Toad and the Adventures of Gredimous and Wibowbow" by Corey K. Smith, fifth grade (home school) ...

The Piedmont Parent Young Authors Contest is sponsored by Lake Jeanette Orthodontics & Pediatric Dentistry, the Greensboro Public Library, the Greensboro Children's Museum, the Children's Museum of Winston-Salem and Barnes & Noble in Winston-Salem.

(Winston-Salem Journal, 1/12/09)