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Massachusetts State Reading List
2009-2010 Massachusetts Children's Book Award Master List
Weedflower
By: Cynthia Kadohata
This edition: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publication date: March 28, 2006
Ages: above 11
Twelve-year-old Sumiko feels her life has been made up of two parts: before Pearl Harbor and after it. The good part and the bad part. Raised on a flower farm in California, Sumiko is used to being the only Japanese girl in...
Barack Obama
Our 44th President
By: Beatrice Gormley
This edition: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publication date: December 2, 2008
Ages: 8 - 12
President Barack Obama's early involvement with politics was inspired by his mother's interest in the controversial social issues of her times -- a passion that she passed on to her son. As the first African American editor...
Other Formats: eBook
Found
(Part of Missing, The)
By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: April 22, 2008
Ages: 8 - 12
Thirteen-year-old Jonah has always known that he was adopted, and he's never thought it was any big deal. Then he and a new friend, Chip, who's also adoped, begin receiving mysterious letters. The first one says, "You are one...
Goldwhiskers
(Part of Spy Mice)
By: Heather Vogel Frederick
Illustrated by: Sally Wern Comport
This edition: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publication date: January 9, 2007
Ages: 8 - 11
Winter break is off to an exciting start with Oz and D. B. jetting off to London for Oz¹s mom¹s opera premiere. And Glory Goldenleaf, private eye, comes along for a pleasure trip.
But this jolly holiday...
Other Formats: eBook
2010-2011 Massachusetts Children's Book Award Master List
Anything But Typical
By: Nora Raleigh Baskin
This edition: Hardcover, 208 pages
Publication date: March 24, 2009
Ages: 10 - 14
Jason Blake is an autistic 12-year-old living in a neurotypical world.
Most days it's just a matter of time before something goes wrong. But Jason finds a glimmer of understanding when he comes across PhoenixBird, who posts...
Chains
By: Laurie Halse Anderson
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: October 21, 2008
Ages: above 10
If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl?
As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
The Underneath
By: Kathi Appelt
Illustrated by: David Small
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: May 6, 2008
Ages: above 10
There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road.
A calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the lonely howl of a chained-up hound deep in the...
No Talking
By: Andrew Clements
Illustrated by: Mark Elliott
This edition: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publication date: June 26, 2007
Ages: 8 - 12
"You have the right to remain silent." However...
The fifth-grade girls and the fifth-grade boys at Laketon Elementary don't get along very well. But the real problem is that these kids are loud and disorderly. That's...
Edward's Eyes
By: Patricia MacLachlan
This edition: Hardcover, 128 pages
Publication date: August 28, 2007
Ages: 8 - 12
Jake is a part of an extraordinary family.
He has a life filled with art, music, and long summer nights on the Cape. He has hours and days and months of baseball. But, more than anything in this world, Jake knows he has...
Massachusetts Winners List
2010 Massachusetts Children's Book Award
Found
(Part of Missing, The)
By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: April 22, 2008
Ages: 8 - 12
Thirteen-year-old Jonah has always known that he was adopted, and he's never thought it was any big deal. Then he and a new friend, Chip, who's also adoped, begin receiving mysterious letters. The first one says, "You are one...