Massachusetts Book Award2013

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Andere Namen: Mass Book Awards (Englisch), Massachusetts Must-Read (Englisch)
24 Werke 23,777 Bücher 1,368 Rezensionen 4.0
Awarded by the Massachusetts Center for the Book
Each year, the MassBooks recognize significant achievements in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, and children's literature from the previous mehr anzeigen calendar year. To be eligible, books must have been written by authors who currently live and work in Massachusetts or must present topics of particular and specific importance to the Commonwealth regardless of their author’s residency.
Throughout the award year, we promote an award winner and two honors books in each of the four award categories by producing/hosting reading, discussion, and activity guides for each title at our web site and by featuring the books at the Massachusetts table in the Pavilion of the States at the National Book Festival. The award and honors titles are also deposited in Special Collections at the State Library.
Massachusetts Book Award website
The 1st annual awards were made in 2001 weniger anzeigen
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Alle, 2023 (61), 2022 (63), 2021 (64), 2020 (59), 2019 (60), 2018 (60), 2017 (60), 2016 (60), 2015 (30), 2014 (24), 2013 (24), 2012 (48), 2011 (48), 2010 (48), 2009 (50), 2008 (12), 2007 (12), 2006 (12), 2005 (12), 2004 (12), 2003 (12), 2002 (13), 2001 (25)

Winner 4

WerkKategorieJahr
Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas von Molly BangChildren's / Young Adult2013
The Technologists von Matthew PearlFiction2013
Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History von George Howe ColtNonfiction2013
Place: New Poems von Jorie GrahamPoetry2013

Honor Book 8

WerkKategorieJahr
We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March von Cynthia LevinsonChildren's / Young Adult2013
Red Thread Sisters von Carol Antoinette PeacockChildren's / Young Adult2013
There Goes Ted Williams: The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived von Matt TavaresChildren's / Young Adult2013
Verschwiegen von William LandayFiction2013
Cascade von Maryanne O'HaraFiction2013
The Art Forger von B. A. ShapiroFiction2013
Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life von Natalie DykstraNonfiction2013
Life in the second circle : poems von Michael CantorPoetry2013

Must-Read (Longlist) 24

WerkKategorieJahr
Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas von Molly BangChildren's / Young Adult2013
We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March von Cynthia LevinsonChildren's / Young Adult2013
Red Thread Sisters von Carol Antoinette PeacockChildren's / Young Adult2013
There Goes Ted Williams: The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived von Matt TavaresChildren's / Young Adult2013
October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard von Lesléa NewmanChildren's / Young Adult2013
Summer of the Gypsy Moths von Sara PennypackerChildren's / Young Adult2013
The Technologists von Matthew PearlFiction2013
Verschwiegen von William LandayFiction2013
Cascade von Maryanne O'HaraFiction2013
The Art Forger von B. A. ShapiroFiction2013
Three Parts Dead von Max GladstoneFiction2013
Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History von George Howe ColtNonfiction2013
Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life von Natalie DykstraNonfiction2013
To Free a Family: The Journey of Mary Walker von Sydney NathansNonfiction2013
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War von Stephen R. PlattNonfiction2013
In Pursuit of Giants: One Man's Global Search for the Last of the Great Fish von Matt RigneyNonfiction2013
The Choke Artist: Confessions of a Chronic Underachiever von David YooNonfiction2013
Place: New Poems von Jorie GrahamPoetry2013
Life in the second circle : poems von Michael CantorPoetry2013
The Bees Are Waiting von Karina BorowiczPoetry2013
What Is Amazing von Heather ChristlePoetry2013
Shortly Thereafter von Colin D. HalloranPoetry2013
Darkening the Grass (Emerging Voices) von Michael MillerPoetry2013
The Song of Achilles von Madeline Miller2013

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Awarded by the Massachusetts Center for the Book
Each year, the MassBooks recognize significant achievements in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, and children's literature from the previous calendar year. To be eligible, books must have been written by authors who currently live and work in Massachusetts or must present topics of particular and specific importance to the Commonwealth regardless of their author’s residency.
Throughout the award year, we promote an award winner and two honors books in each of the four award categories by producing/hosting reading, discussion, and activity guides for each title at our web site and by featuring the books at the Massachusetts table in the Pavilion of the States at the National Book Festival. The award and honors titles are also deposited in Special Collections at the State Library.
Massachusetts Book Award website
The 1st annual awards were made in 2001 (English, Von Mitgliedern verfasst)
Massachusetts Book Awards

The Massachusetts Book Awards highlight the work of our vital contemporary writing community and encourage readers to do some "close reading" of those imaginative works created by the authors among us. Throughout the award year, we a list of "Must Reads " in each of four award categories -- fiction, nonfiction, poetry & children's/young adult literature -- that have been written by Massachusetts writers or about Massachusetts themes. We also publish an annual MassBook Census of Massachusetts books. In the Fall, we name promote an award winner in each of the categories. (English, Von Mitgliedern verfasst)

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