JUST IN TIME FOR SUMMER READING FUN!
MASS. CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD: 2010
The nominees for the 2010 Massachusetts Children’s Book Award have just been announced!!
Students who are entering grades 4-6 will be eligible to vote for their favorite from the list if they
have read, have heard read-aloud, or listened to an audio version, of just five from the list by March,
2010. Check out the Southborough Library for available titles and most on the list come in
paperback. I promise there is something on this list for everyone!
Abby Takes A Stand (McKissack): A trip to her grandmother’s attic takes Abby back to 1960 in
Nashville.
Barack Obama: Our 44th President (Gormley): Follow the path to the White House.
Big Field (Lupica): What will it take for Hutch to share his passion for baseball with his
father?
Billy, the Fish (James): When Ned’s brother eats experimental fish food, it just adds to his
troubles!
Bread and Roses (Paterson): Two children are caught up in the Lawrence, MA. mill
strike of 1912
Castle Corona (Creech): What is in the leather pouch that Pia & Enzo bring
as tasters for the king?
Elijah of Buxton (Curtis): A masterful storyteller describes life in a haven for runaway
slaves.
Emmy & the Incredible Shrinking Rat (Jonell): Is Nanny Barmy trying to poison Emmy and her family?
Feathers (Woodson): Frannie wants to believe Emily Dickinson’s poem “Hope is a thing with
feathers.”
Found: The Missing, Bk 1 (Haddix)
Green Glass Sea (Klages): Something mysterious is happening in Los Alamos, NM in
1943.
Horns and Wrinkles (Helgerson): Claire must reverse a curse with a good deed.
How to Steal a Dog (O’Connor): Georgina convinces her brother to steal a dog for the
reward money.
Lemonade War (Davies): When his younger sister skips a grade, Evan wants to prove his
worth.
Listen! (Tolan): Recuperating from an accident that killed her mother, Charley tries to train a
wild dog.
London Eye Mystery (Dowd): Salim goes up on London’s famous ferris wheel and
disappears.
My Haunted House (Sage): Watch out for trapdoors, secret passageways, bats and ghosts!
Out of Patience (Meehl): 12-year-old Jake can’t wait to escape from Patience,
Kansas.
Paint the Wind (Ryan): The bond between orphaned Maya and a once-wild horse is tested.
Pizza, Pigs & Poetry (Prelutsky): YOU can be the next Jack Prelutsky, and he’ll show you how!
Rules (Lord)
Simon Bloom, Gravity Keeper (Reisman): Science and magic aren’t really that far apart!
Spy Mice: Goldwhiskers (Frederick): Help Glory Goldenleaf track a valuable jewel & missing orphans.
Swindle (Korman): How is Griffin going to get back his valuable baseball card?
Weedflower (Kadohata): After Pearl Harbor, Japanese-American Sumiko must give up
her dream.
I can’t wait to hear your favorites when we come back to school this fall!
Mrs. Woodfin
