Massachusetts Book Award Winners for the Year 2006
Honoring books published in 2005.
Celebrated at Lenox Town Hall and Lenox Library, 15 October 2006.
Fiction Award
The
Season of Open Water by Dawn Clifton Tripp
(Random House)
MCB Reading and Discussion Guide (PDF)
Fiction Honors
Hedwig and Berti by Frieda Arkin
(Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Press)
MCB Reading and Discussion Guide (PDF)
Flashback by Gary
Braver
(Forge / Tom Doherty Associates)
MCB Reading and Discussion Guide (PDF)
Nonfiction Award
The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
by Megan Marshall (Houghton
Mifflin)
MCB Reading and Discussion Guide (PDF)
Nonfiction Honors
Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet by Charlotte
Gordon
(Little, Brown)
MCB Reading and Discussion Guide (PDF)
A
Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit by Alan Lightman
(Pantheon Books)
MCB Reading and Discussion Guide (PDF)
Poetry Award
Zeppo's First Wife: New and Selected Poems by Gail Mazur(University of Chicago Press)
MCB Reading and Discussion Guide (PDF)
Poetry Honors
Natural History by Dan Chiasson
(Alfred A. Knopf)
MCB Reading and Discussion Guide (PDF)
Habitat: New and Selected Poems, 1965-2005 by Brendan Galvin
(Louisiana State University Press)
MCB Reading and Discussion Guide (PDF)
Children's / Young Adult Literature Award
Where the Great Hawk Flies by Liza Ketchum
(Clarion Books)
MCB Reading and Discussion Guide (PDF)
Children's / Young Adult Honors
The Old African by Julius Lester
(Dial
Books / Penguin)
MCB Reading and Discussion Guide (PDF)
Beneath the Streets
of Boston: Building America's First Subway by
Joe McKendry
(David R. Godine, Publisher)
MCB Reading and Discussion Guide (PDF)
2006 Massachusetts Book Award Judges
Matthew Battles, Houghton Library, Harvard University, author of Library,
an Unquiet History
George Bergen, The Bookstore, Lenox
Margaret Chang, Massachusetts
College of Liberal Arts, North Adams
Nancy Hayes Clune, Lawrence Library,
Pepperell
Judith Gray, Concord Free Public Library
Joan Houlihan, Concord
Poetry Center
Wendy Hudson, Nantucket Bookworks
Sandy Leifeld, Newton Free
Library
Shona Ramaya, author of Monsoon Operation
Nancy Lusignan Schultz,
Salem State College, author of Fire & Roses
Lloyd Schwartz, University
of Massachusetts – Boston, author of Cairo Traffic
Carol Stoltz, Porter
Square Books, Cambridge