Massachusetts Book Award Winners for the Year 2004
Honoring books published in 2003.
Celebrated at the Massachusetts State House, Beacon Hill, Boston, 18 November 2004.
Massachusetts Book Medal
Pen New England
A Community of Writers Enriching a Commonwealth of Readers
(PEN New England)
Fiction Award
A Kiss from Maddalena by Christopher Castellani
(Algonquin Books)
Fiction Honors
Reunion by Alan Lightman
(Pantheon Books)
Operation Monsoon by Shona Ramaya
(Graywolf Press)
Nonfiction Award
Patriots: the Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides by Christian G. Appy
(Viking Press)
Nonfiction Honors
The Big House by George Howe Colt
(Scribners/Simon & Schuster)
Sea of Glory by Nathaniel Philbrick
(Viking Press)
Poetry Award
Middle Earth by Henri Cole
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Poetry Honors
Far Side of the Earth by Tom Sleigh
(Houghton Mifflin)
Departure by Rosanna Warren
(W. W. Norton)
Children’s / Young Adult Literature Award
The Silent Boy by Lois Lowry
(Houghton Mifflin / Walter Lorraine)
Children’s / Young Adult Honors
Don't Say Ain't by Irene Smalls
(Charlesbridge Publishing)
My Brothers' Flying Machine by Jane Yolen
(Little, Brown and Company)