Massachusetts Book Award Winners for the Year 2007
Honoring books published in 2006.
Fiction Award
The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud (Alfred A. Knopf)
Fiction Honors
Jump at the Sun by Kim McLarin (HarperCollins)
How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life by Mameve Medwed
(HarperCollins)
Nonfiction Award
Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick (Viking)
Nonfiction Honors
House of War by James Carroll (Houghton
Mifflin)
Failed States by
Noam Chomsky (Metropolitan/Henry Holt)
Poetry Award
Averno by Louise Glück (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)Poetry Honors
The Republic of Poetry by Martín Espada (W.
W. Norton)
God’s
Silence by Franz Wright (Alfred
A. Knopf)
Children's / Young Adult Literature Award
Incantation by Alice Hoffman (Little, Brown)
Children's / Young Adult Honors
Clementine by Sara Pennypacker (Hyperion)
Counting on Grace by Elizabeth
Winthrop (Wendy Lamb/Random
House)
2007 Massachusetts Book Award Judges
Israella Abrams, Swampscott Public Library
Lisa Borders, author of Cloud
Cuckoo Land
Jeanne Braham, editor, author of Light Within the Light
Jennifer
Hanson, Primary Source Inc., Watertown
Pat Keogh, Foundation for Children’s
Books, Boston
Ifeanyi Mentiki, Wellesley College, Grolier Poetry Book Shop, Cambridge
Jacqueline
Rafferty, Paul Pratt Memorial Library, Cohasset
Chris Rose, Andover Bookstore
Richard D. Simpson, Water Street Books, Williamstown
Suzanne Strempek Shea,
author of Shelf Life
Jennifer Whitehead, Belchertown Public Library