by Rebecca Forand

South Jersey students are invited to participate in The Diverse Minds Youth Writing Challenge, a contest that asks high school students to write and illustrate an original book to help elementary school children celebrate tolerance and diversity.

The Challenge — sponsored by Pepco Holdings and B’nai B’rith — is open to high school students in Cape May, Cumberland, Salem, Gloucester, Camden, Atlantic, Burlington and Ocean counties.

Over the past seven years, 20 original children’s books have been published through the Challenge, but this is the first year it is available to South Jersey student authors…more.