Massachusetts Book Award2009

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Andere Namen: Mass Book Awards (Englisch), Massachusetts Must-Read (Englisch)
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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 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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Winner 4

WerkKategorieJahr
One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference von Katie Smith MilwayChildren's / Young Adult2009
People of the Book von Geraldine BrooksFiction2009
Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China During the Cultural Revolution (Melanie Kroupa Books) von Moying LiNonfiction2009
The Ghost Soldiers: Poems von James TatePoetry2009

Honor Book 8

WerkKategorieJahr
The Other Side of the Island von Allegra GoodmanChildren's / Young Adult2009
The Willoughbys von Lois LowryChildren's / Young Adult2009
Der Fluch von Scarborough Fair von Nancy WerlinChildren's / Young Adult2009
American Savior: A Novel of Divine Politics von Roland MerulloFiction2009
Through an Uncommon Lens: The Life and Photography of F. Holland Day von Patricia J. FanningNonfiction2009
White Heat von Brenda WineappleNonfiction2009
Spring (National Poetry Series) von Oni BuchananPoetry2009
Sea Change: Poems von Jorie GrahamPoetry2009

Must-Read (Longlist) 50

WerkKategorieJahr
One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference von Katie Smith MilwayChildren's / Young Adult2009
The Other Side of the Island von Allegra GoodmanChildren's / Young Adult2009
The Willoughbys von Lois LowryChildren's / Young Adult2009
Der Fluch von Scarborough Fair von Nancy WerlinChildren's / Young Adult2009
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves von M. T. AndersonChildren's / Young Adult2009
Die Penderwicks zu Hause von Jeanne BirdsallChildren's / Young Adult2009
Priscilla and the Hollyhocks von Anne BroylesChildren's / Young Adult2009
Lost and Found von Andrew ClementsChildren's / Young Adult2009
My Most Excellent Year von Steve KlugerChildren's / Young Adult2009
Sisters of Scituate Light von Stephen KrenskyChildren's / Young Adult2009
As Good as Anybody von Richard MichelsonChildren's / Young Adult2009
Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai von Claire A. NivolaChildren's / Young Adult2009
Greetings From Nowhere von Barbara O'ConnorChildren's / Young Adult2009
First Daughter: White House Rules von Mitali PerkinsChildren's / Young Adult2009
The Mayflower and the Pilgrims' New World von Nathaniel PhilbrickChildren's / Young Adult2009
People of the Book von Geraldine BrooksFiction2009
American Savior: A Novel of Divine Politics von Roland MerulloFiction2009
A Better Angel: Stories von Chris AdrianFiction2009
Requiem, Mass.: A Novel von John DufresneFiction2009
Map of Ireland: A Novel von Stephanie GrantFiction2009
Auftauchen von Jennifer HaighFiction2009
Blindspot von Jane KamenskyFiction2009
Die Tochter der Ketzerin von Kathleen KentFiction2009
Im Aufruhr jener Tage: Roman von Dennis LehaneFiction2009
The Foreigner von Francie LinFiction2009
The End von Salvatore ScibonaFiction2009
The World Before Her von Deborah WeisgallFiction2009
Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China During the Cultural Revolution (Melanie Kroupa Books) von Moying LiNonfiction2009
Through an Uncommon Lens: The Life and Photography of F. Holland Day von Patricia J. FanningNonfiction2009
White Heat von Brenda WineappleNonfiction2009
A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade von Christopher BenfeyNonfiction2009
Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer Among the American Romantics von Renee BerglandNonfiction2009
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library) von Drew Gilpin FaustNonfiction2009
Es war nicht Kolumbus: Die wahren Entdecker der Neuen Welt von Tony HorwitzNonfiction2009
The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse von Jane KamenskyNonfiction2009
The Paradise of All These Parts: A Natural History of Boston von John Hanson MitchellNonfiction2009
Patriot Pirates: The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune in the American Revolution von Robert H. PattonNonfiction2009
Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times von Susan QuinnNonfiction2009
The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order von Joan WickershamNonfiction2009
The Ghost Soldiers: Poems von James TatePoetry2009
Spring (National Poetry Series) von Oni BuchananPoetry2009
Sea Change: Poems von Jorie GrahamPoetry2009
Watching the Spring Festival: Poems von Frank BidartPoetry2009
Her place in these designs von Rhina P. EspaillatPoetry2009
Quaker Guns von Caroline KnoxPoetry2009
Same Life: Poems von Maureen N. McLanePoetry2009
Francis d'Assisi 2008 von Gary MetrasPoetry2009
Two minutes of light von Nancy K. PearsonPoetry2009
In memory of the fast break von Michael SweeneyPoetry2009
Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (Pitt Poetry Series) von Ronaldo WilsonPoetry2009

Special Director's Mention 2

WerkKategorieJahr
A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade von Christopher BenfeyNonfiction2009
The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order von Joan WickershamNonfiction2009

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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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