Massachusetts Children's Book Award 2024-25!

THE 2024-2025 WINNER OF THE MCBA IS:

HEY all 4th, 5th and 6th grade students at Nathan Hale Elementary!!!

Do you want to be a part of group of children who select their favorite book of the 2024-25 School Year?

DO THIS:

• READ at least 5 out of 25 books below

• WRITE UP a note on why you enjoyed the book (or did not!) 

  • • • • Ms Yosca keeps the note forms in the library. Ask for one.

• If you read 5 (or more!) books and take notes ---> you are eligible to vote

• We vote in April 2025

• All books are available at:

  •  the Hale library

  • Boston Public Libraries

  • SORA  once you are logged in through Clever, go to EXPLORE, then look for MA Children's Book Award 2024-25

• BenBee and the Teacher Griefer: The Kids under the Stairs series - K.A. Holt

• Shark Summer - Ira Marcks

• Unsettled - Reem Faruqi

• Mexikid: a Graphic Memoir - Pedro Martin

• The One Thing You'd Save - Linda Sue Park

• Piece by Piece: How I Built My Life (No Instructions Required) -  David Aguilar

• Anybody Here Seen Frenchie? - Leslie Connor

• Violet and Jobie in the Wild - Lynne Rae Perkins

• Hoops - Matt Tavares

• The Vanquishers - Kalynn Bayron

• Ways to Make Sunshine - Renee Watson

• A Case of Grave Danger: Violet Veil Mysteries - Sophie Cleverly

• The Unforgettable Logan Foster - Shawn Peters

• Swim Team - Johnnie Christmas

• A Rover's Story - Jasmine Warga

• Ellen Outside the Lines - A.J. Sass

• The Year I Flew Away  - Marie Arnold

• The Best of Iggy - Annie Barrows

• Lety Out Loud - Angela Cervantes

• Small Town Pride - Phil Stamper

• Nikhil Out Loud - Maulik Pancholy

• Something Like Home - Andrea Beatriz Arango

• Stowaway - John David Anderson

• Science Comics Frogs: Awesome Amphibians - Liz Prince

• When Impossible Happens - Jane de Suza

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