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Maine Student Book Award 2017-2018

Welcome to Waynflete School Library's Maine Student Book Award site.

The Maine Student Book Award is designed to expand literary horizons of students in grades 4-8 by encouraging them to read, evaluate, and enjoy a selection of new books and to choose a statewide favorite by written ballot each spring.

Please note that there are now two MSBA lists, one for 4th-6th grade and one for 6th-8th grade. There are many titles that are on both lists, but each list also has a selection that is unique to the lower or upper age ranges. Waynflete 4th and 5th graders will be reading from the 4th-6th grade list for voting purposes. 6th, 7th, and 8th graders will read from the 6th-8th grade list.

Click on the links to the left to find this year's nominees, book summaries, author biographies, recommendations, and other interesting information.

Announcing

The 2017-2018 Maine Student Book Award winners…

Grades 4-6

Maxi's Secrets

by Lynne Plourde

2nd Place: Mighty Jack by Ben Hatke

3rd Place: Slacker by Gordon Korman

Grades 6-8

Ghost

by Jason Reynolds

2nd place: Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk

3rd place: Mighty Jack by Ben Hatke