Calling all book lovers! Announcing the 2022-2023 Massachusetts Children's Book Award (MCBA) nominees!
What you need to know:
-These books aren't just amazing books-they're on this list because kids like you think they're awesome too! Click here for more information to vote for this year's winner and visit here to nominate your favorites for future awards.
Alone by Megan E. Freeman
Readalikes:
The Canyon's Edge by Dusti Bowling
Across the Desert by Dusti Bowling
Also available as an eBook.
Amari and the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston
Also available in the following formats: Audiobook, eAudio, eBook, and Playaway.
Readalikes:
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia
Also available in the following formats: Audiobook, eAudio, eBook, and Playaway. There is also a graphic novel based on the book.
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians Book #1) by Rick Riordan
Also available in Spanish, and the following formats: eAudio, eBook, DVD, Blu-ray. There is also a graphic novel based on the book.
Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith
A celebration of stories all about the Indigenous tradition of the powwow.
Also available in Audiobook and eBook.
Readalikes:
Feel the Beat: Dance Poems that Zing from Salsa to Swing written by Marilyn Singer and illustrated by Kristi Valiant
Flight of the Puffin by Ann Braden
Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire by John August
Arlo has no idea what he's in for when mysterious creatures start appearing in the woods behind his house.
Also available in eBook and eAudio.
Readalikes:
Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez by Adrianna Cuevas
Elizabeth's Legacy (Royal Institute of Magic #1) by Victor Kloss
Available to request from libraries outside of Worcester.
Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Also available in eBook, eAudio, and Large Print.
Readalikes:
The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore
Also available in Audiobook, eBook, and eAudio.
Obie is Man Enough by Schuyler Bailar
The Blackbird Girls by Anne Blankman
Also available as an eBook.
Readalikes:
Letters from Cuba by Ruth Behar
The Radium Girls: The Scary But True Story of the Poison That Made People Glow in the Dark by Kate Moore
Available to request from libraries outside of Worcester.
Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls by Kaela Rivera
Cece lives in constant fear of the criaturas in the desert outside of her village but when one of them saves her life, will she risk her reputation to save the criatura in return?
Readalikes:
Valentina Salazar is Not a Monster Hunter by Zoraida Córdova
Scritch Scratch by Lindsay Currie
-Cara
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