Make My Mark Bookmark Contest Winners

Our mailbox has never been so colorful. We appreciate the students who entered the Make My Mark summer bookmark contest. The tributes to their favorite stories took creativity and imagination to new heights. Our judges had a difficult time choosing the winners. Congratulations to the first place winners in each category.

  • Ellen Shelton (age 11, Elementary), Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
  • Owen Wilson (age 12, Middle School), Legend of the Giant Panda by A. B. Curtiss
  • Cora Weems (age 16, High School), The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howit
  • McKayla Cavanagh (University of South Carolina) The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

Thanks for making this year's contest such a huge success.

Upcoming Event

Author photo of Patricia Brandon and the cover of Rise of the Pale Moon.

Author Patricia Brandon and "Rise of the Pale Moon"

February 11, 2026, 5:30 PM

Join us at the next installment of the Speaker at the Center with Author Patricia Brandon where she will discuss her historical fiction novel, "Rise of the Pale Moon." Set against the backdrop of the Revolutionary War era in coastal South Carolina, Rise of the Pale Moon weaves a compelling tale of three young women from distinct backgrounds: an indentured servant from London, a chattel slave raised on the Montague Hall plantation, and a Catawba Indian captured by the Cherokee and traded into slavery.