Massachusetts Book Award2013

Given by Massachusetts Center for the Book

Otros Nombres: Mass Book Awards (Inglés), Massachusetts Must-Read (Inglés)
24 Obras 23,622 Libros 1,363 Reseñas 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 mostrar más 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 mostrar menos
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Todos, 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

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

Honor Book 8

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

Must-Read (Longlist) 24

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

Descripciones

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, Escritos por miembros)
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, Escritos por miembros)

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