A joint project of the Maine Library Association, Maine Association of School Libraries and the Maine Literacy Council
2021-2022 MSBA Voting Results
2021-2022 MSBA Winner
Primer
by Jennifer Muro and Thomas Krajewski
1st Place: Primer by Jennifer Muro, Thomas Krajewski and Gretel Lusky (190 votes)
2nd Place: Becoming Muhammad Ali by Kwame Alexander, James Patterson and Dawud Anyabwile (167 votes)
3rd Place: When Stars are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed and Iman Geddy (164 votes)
and here's the
Maine Student Book Award
2022-2023 Reading List
Amari and the Night Brothers
B.B. Alston
Willodeen
Katherine Applegate
Imaginary
Lee Bacon
Obie Is Man Enough
Schuyler Ballar
Magical Imperfect
Chris Baron
Across The Desert
Dusti Bowling
Danny Chung
Sums It Up
Maisie Chan and Natelle Quek
Down to Earth
Betty Culley
Shadow Prince
David Durham
Nightingale
Deva Fagan
Starfish
Lisa Fipps
Carry Me Home
Janet Fox
Alone
Megan Freeman
All You Knead Is Love
Tanya Guerrero
The 1619 Project: Born In The Water
Nikole Hannah-Jones
Last Cuentista
Donna Barba Higuera
The Way Of The Hive
Jay Hosler
Stella
McCall Hoyle
Strong As Fire, Fierce As Flame
Supriya Kelkar
When The World Was Ours
Liz Kessler
How To Change Everything
Naomi Klein
Deadman's Castle
Iain Lawrence
Six Crimson Cranes
Elizabeth Lim
This Is Our Rainbow
Katherine Locke
School of Phantoms
Kory Merritt
Girl From The Sea
Molly Knox Ostertag
Summer of Brave
Amy Noelle Parks
Garlic and Vampires
Bree Paulsen
Time Villains
Victor Pineiro
Strangest Thing In The Sea
Rachel Poliquin
One Small Hop
Madelyn Rosenberg
No Humans Allowed
Madeline Roux
Chickenology
Barbara Sandri
Million Dollar Race
Matthew Ross Smith
Leonard (My Life As A Cat)
Carlie Sorosiak
Kate In Between
Claire Swinarski
Erik Vs. Everything
Christina Uss
Katie the Catsitter
Colleen Venable and Stephanie Yue
Ash House
Angharad Walker
Last Gamer Standing
Katie Zhao