BANGOR (AP) – A 13-year-old girl from Blue Hill will represent Maine in the national spelling bee after winning the state competition.

Imogen Page won the 2008 Maine State Spelling Bee on Saturday by spelling words such as “susceptible,” “kahuna” and “nirvana.”

She and 15 other middle-school students, representing the state’s 16 counties, participated in the event at Eastern Maine Community College.

Imogen has spent most of her life in London and moved to Maine four years ago.

The national spelling bee takes place in May in Washington, D.C.

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Information from: Bangor Daily News, http://www.bangornews.com

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