BRYAN EATON/ Staff Photo. Melody Coker, 10, grabs a clothespin from Amesbury Elementary School teacher Sheila Harney which has students in the classroom's names on them. They were drawing to choose from different books that were donated to each fourth-grader in the Amesbury school system. Nick Emerson, who won this year's Top Chef competition and whose mother, Florence Emerson teaches at the Cashman School and sister Sally Heckerman at the elementary school, had arranged for the gifts through an associaton with Scholastic Book Company.

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