Massachusetts Book Award Winners for the Year 2005
Honoring books published in 2004.
Celebrated at 21st Century Literacies, a special conference of the Massachusetts Library Association, held at the DoubleTree Hotel, Lowell, 17
November 2005.
Massachusetts Book Medal
Reach Out and Read
Taking care to build the next generation of readers
Somerville, Massachusetts
Fiction Award
Project X by Jim Shepard
(Alfred A. Knopf)
MCB Reading and Discussion Guide (PDF)
Fiction Honors
Love in the Asylum by Lisa Carey
(William
Morrow)
MCB Reading and Discussion Guide (PDF)
Inheritance by Lan Samantha Chang
(W. W. Norton)
MCB Reading and Discussion Guide (PDF)
Nonfiction Award
Outwitting History by Aaron Lansky
(Algonquin Books)
MCB Reading and Discussion Guide (PDF)
Nonfiction Honors
Spirit and Flesh by James M. Ault, Jr.
(Alfred A. Knopf)
MCB Reading and Discussion Guide (PDF)
Washington’s
Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
(Oxford University Press)
MCB Reading and Discussion Guide (PDF)
Poetry Award
Trouble in Mind by Lucie Brock-Broido(Alfred A. Knopf)
MCB Reading and Discussion Guide (PDF)
Poetry Honors
Goodbye to the Orchard by Steven Cramer
(Sarabande Books)
MCB Reading and Discussion Guide (PDF)
The Unsubscriber by Bill Knott
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
MCB Reading and Discussion Guide (PDF)
Children's / Young Adult Literature Award
My Light by Molly Bang
(Blue Sky Press)
MCB Reading and Discussion Guide (PDF)
Children's / Young Adult Honors
Blow Out the Moon by Libby Koponen
(Little, Brown)
MCB Reading and Discussion Guide (PDF)
Fine Feathered Friends by Jane Yolen
(Boyds Mills Press)
MCB Reading and Discussion Guide (PDF)
2005 Massachusetts Book Award Judges
Anne Bernays, novelist, PEN New England
Ellen Wendruff, Robbins
Library, Arlington
Russ Barker, Brookline Booksmith
Linda Knaack, Forbes
Library, Northampton
Diana Muir, historian, author of Reflections in Bullough’s
Pond
John Morse, President, Merriam-Webster, Inc.
Nick Flynn, poet, author
of Blind Huber
Peter Thornell, Hingham Public Library
Wendy Garland, Greenlodge
School, Dedham
Pat Purdy, Banbury Cross Children’s Bookshop, Wenham
Amy Pattee, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College