Food for the Future makes Mass Book Award Long List!

I am thrilled that Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World made the Massachusetts Book Award Long List!

Mass Center for the Book is excited to recognize longlisted titles across five categories—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, middle grade/young adult, and picture book/early reader. Awards and honors books (including the winner of the new translated literature prize) will be announced in September and celebrated at the State House this fall.

PICTURE BOOK / EARLY READER LONGLIST
When Things Aren’t Going Right, Go Left by Marc Colagiovanni and Peter H. Reynolds (Scholastic)
If the Rivers Run Free by Andrea Debbink. Nicole Wong, illus. (Sleeping Bear)
A Very Cranky Book by Angela DiTerlizzi and Tony DiTerlizzi (HarperCollins)
Night Owl Night by Susan Edwards Richmond. Maribel Lechuga, illus. (Charlesbridge)
Summer Is for Cousins by Rajani LaRocca. Abhi Alwar, illus. (Abrams)
Once Upon a Book by Grace Lin and Kate Messner (Little, Brown BYR)
Homeland by Hannah Moushabeck. Reem Madooh, illus. (Chronicle)
Everything Possible by Fred Small. Alison Brown, illus. (Nosy Crow)
Mole Is Not Alone by Maya Tatsukawa (Henry Holt)
Yoshi’s Big Swim by Mary Wagley Copp. Kaja Kajfež, illus. (Capstone Editions)
Food for the Future by Mia Wenjen. Robert Sae-Heng, illus. (Barefoot Books)
Nana and Me by Jane Yolen. Sejung Kim, illus. (Bushel & Peck)

MIDDLE GRADE / YOUNG ADULT LONGLIST
All You Have to Do by Autumn Allen (Penguin)
Spin by Rebecca Caprara (Atheneum BYR)
The Remarkable Rescue at Milkweed Meadow by Elaine Dimopoulos (Charlesbridge)
Pedro & Daniel by Federico Erebia (Levine Querido)
The Song of Us by Kate Fussner (HarperCollins)
A Work in Progress by Jarrett Lerner (Simon & Schuster)
Chinese Menu by Grace Lin (Little, Brown BYR)
Squished by Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter (Scholastic)
The Fall of Whit Rivera by Crystal Maldonado (Holiday House)
The Moonlit Vine by Elizabeth Santiago (Lee & Low)
I Am Not Alone by Francisco X. Stork (Scholastic)
Ghosts, Toast, and Other Hazards by Susan Tan (Macmillan)

FICTION LONGLIST
The Light of Seven Days by River Adams (Delphinium)
Rogue: A Novel by Mona Awad (Simon & Schuster)
Relentless Melt by Jeremy P. Bushnell (Melville House)
The Last Beekeeper by Julie Carrick Dalton (Macmillan)
Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy (Zando)
Kantika: A Novel by Elizabeth Graver (Metropolitan Books)
Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck (Simon & Schuster)
The Archivists by Daphne Kalotay (Northwestern Univ. Press)
Like the Appearance of Horses by Andrew Krivak (Bellevue)
Muckross Abbey and Other Stories by Sabina Murray (Grove Atlantic)
Night Angels by Weina Dai Randel (Lake Union)
We Have Always Been Who We Are by Sofia T. Romero (Blackstone)

NONFICTION LONGLIST
He/She/They by Schuyler Bailar (Hachette Go)
Spoken Word: A Cultural History by Joshua Bennett (Vintage)
How Infrastructure Works by Deb Chachra (Riverhead)
Necessary Trouble by Drew Gilpin Faust (FSG)
An Unruled Body by Ani Gjika (Restless Books)
The Country of the Blind by Andrew Leland (Penguin)
What’s Gotten Into You by Dan Levitt (HarperCollins)
Winter Solstice by Nina MacLaughlin (Black Sparrow)
Everyday Something Has Tried to Kill Me and Has Failed by Kim McLarin (lg Publishing)
Into the Amazon by Larry Rohter (W.W. Norton)
Chomsky & Me by Bev Boisseau Stohl (OR Books)
Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo (Simon & Schuster)

POETRY LONGLIST
Navigating the Reach by Mary Buchinger (Salmon Poetry)
Gravity and Center by Henri Cole (FSG)
The Diaspora Sonnets by Oliver de la Paz (W.W. Norton)
Ordinary Entanglement by Melissa Dickey (Cleveland State Univ. Poetry Center)
Fierce Elegy by Peter Gizzi (Wesleyan Univ. Press)
Shadow Act by Daniel Brock Johnson (McSweeney’s Publishing)
The Observable Universe by Hannah Larrabee (Lily Poetry)
Ghost :: Seeds by Sebastian Merrill (Texas Review)
Love is a Shore by Hilary Sallick (Lily Poetry)
American Scapegoat by Enzo Silon Surin (Black Lawrence)
This Far North by Jason Tandon (Black Lawrence)
The Mansions by Daniel Tobin (Four Way Books)

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