Thank you for voting!
The votes have been tallied, and we have a winner! Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan was voted the best book by kids from 144 different communities in Massachusetts.
The top 25 books are available here!
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Where the book “candidates” came from:
During the summer of 2019 Bruins summer visits to Andover, Bourne, Braintree, East Longmeadow, Easthampton, Lawrence, Marshfield, Martha’s Vineyard, Melrose, Millbury, Pittsfield, Princeton, and Sheffield, we asked kids to tell us what their favorite book is. We got hundreds of responses and put them into a comprehensive list. The candidate books came from that list with a few librarian recommendations. Kids will also have the option to write in their book candidate.
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