Category : Young Adult Booklists

Summer Reading Grades 1-8

2008 Wakefield Public Schools Summer Reading Lists

Summer Reading Grade 1


Summer Reading Grade 2


Summer Reading Grade 3


Summer Reading Grade 4


Summer Reading Grade 5
Fiction


Summer Reading Grade 5
Nonfiction


Summer Reading Grade 6
Fiction


Summer Reading Grade 6
Nonfiction


Grade 7, Fiction


Grade 7, Nonfiction


Grade 8, Fiction


Grade 8, Nonfiction


The Massachusetts Book Awards

The Massachusetts Book Awards have been given since 2001 in the categories of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and children’s/young adult literature. They are awarded by the Massachusetts Center for the Book.

2007 (honoring books published in 2006)
FICTION - The emperor’s children, by Claire Messud
NONFICTION - Mayflower : a story of courage, community, and war, by Nathaniel Philbrick
POETRY - Averno, by Louise Glück
CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT - Incantation, by Alice Hoffman

2006 (honoring books published in 2005)
FICTION - The Season of open water, by Dawn Clifton Tripp
NONFICTION - The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism , by Megan Marshall
POETRY - Zeppo’s first wife : new and selected poems, by Gail Mazur
CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT - Where the Great Hawk Flies, by Liza Ketchum

2005 (honoring books published in 2004)
FICTION - Project X, by Jim Shepard
NONFICTION - Outwitting history, by Aaron Lansky
POETRY - Trouble in mind, by Lucie Brock-Broido
CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT - My light, by Molly Bang

2004 (honoring books published in 2003)
FICTION - A kiss from Maddalena, by Christopher Castellani
NONFICTION - Patriots : the Vietnam War remembered from all sides, by Christian G. Appy
POETRY - Middle earth, by Henry Cole
CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT - Silent boy, by Lois Lowry

2003 (honoring books published in 2002)
FICTION - Sea room, by Norman G. Gautreau, Wakefield author!
NONFICTION - Revere beach elegy, by Roland Merullo
POETRY - Never, by Jorie Graham
CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT - Hole in my life, by Jack Gantos
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD - Eric Carle, children’s author and illustrator

2002 (honoring books published in 2001)
FICTION - Mystic River, by Dennis Lehane
NONFICTION - The imprisoned guest, by Elisabeth Gitter
POETRY - Poems seven, by Alan Dugan
CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT - Moonpie and Ivy, by Barbara O’Connor
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD - Stanley Kunitz, poet

2001 (honoring books published in 2000)
FICTION - MotherKind, by Jayne Anne Phillips
NONFICTION - Reflections in Bullough’s Pond, by Diana Muir
POETRY - Breathing room, by Peter Davison
CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT - What’s in a name?, by Ellen Witlinger
CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOK - Henry hikes to Fitchburg, by D.B. Johnson


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