Amanda Espericueta and the bee
Submitted on May 30, 2008 - 2:27pm.
Angel Booth - Hampton Short Course 2008
WASHINGTON, May 29 - They were celebrities among themselves - their own paparazzi. "Are you a speller?" "Can you sign my book?"
The picture of an unsupervised field trip, spellers circled the lobby of the Grand Hyatt Washington Hotel this week, anxiously exchanging red autograph books, flipping to their profile pages and scribbling their preteen signatures under their snapshots and bios.
On page 248 was 14-year-old Amanda Espericueta's eighth-grade class picture from Bishop Garriga Prepatory Middle School in Corpus Christi, Texas.
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