(KTNC)-- Young Nebraska writers will receive Letters about Literature award certificates from Gov. Pete Ricketts on Wednesday April 6,  at a proclamation-signing ceremony celebrating National Library Week which is April 10th-16th.

 Letters about Literature is a national reading and writing promotion program. Nearly 50,000 adolescent and young readers nationwide in grades four through twelve participated in this year’s Letters about Literature program, hundreds of them from Nebraska. 

The students wrote personal letters to authors explaining how his or her work changed their view of themselves or the world. They selected authors from any genre, fiction or nonfiction, contemporary or classic. Winners were chosen from three competition levels: upper elementary, middle, and secondary school. 

One area young writer to receive recognition was Carson Bredemeier of Falls City, for a letter to Laura Hillenbrand. Bredemeier was an alternate winner.