State Award Reading List
Massachusetts State Reading List
2009-2010 Massachusetts Children's Book Award Master List
Weedflower
By: Cynthia Kadohata
Cover By: Kamil Vojnar
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 of...
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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 winds up being...
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