Nutmeg Book Award2018

Given by Connecticut Library Association

Other Names: Connecticut's Nutmeg Book Award
45 Works 43,011 Books 2,508 Reviews 4.1
The Nutmeg Book Award encourages children in grades 2-12 to read quality literature and to choose their favorite from a list of ten nominated titles. We have lists for four divisions: Elementary show more (grades 2-4), Intermediate (grades 4-6), Teen (grades 7-8) and High School (grades 9-12). Jointly sponsored by the Connecticut Library Association (CLA) and the Connecticut Association of School Librarians (CASL),the Nutmeg Committee is comprised of children's librarians and school library media specialists who are members of our sponsoring organizations. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (68), Nominee (769)
Categories:
All, Elementary (150), High School (110), Intermediate (320), Middle School (51), Teen (139)
Years:
All, 2024 (45), 2023 (45), 2022 (45), 2021 (45), 2020 (45), 2019 (45), 2018 (45), 2017 (45), 2016 (45), 2015 (45), 2014 (30), 2013 (20), 2012 (20), 2011 (20), 2010 (20), 2009 (20), 2008 (20), 2007 (20), 2006 (20), 2005 (10), 2004 (10), 2003 (10), 2002 (10), 2001 (10), 2000 (10), 1999 (10), 1998 (10), 1997 (10), 1996 (10), 1995 (10), 1994 (10), 1993 (10)

Winner 4

WorkCategoryYear
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear by Lindsay MattickElementary2018
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky AlbertalliHigh School2018
The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker BradleyIntermediate2018
Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. SchmidtTeen2018

Nominee 45

WorkCategoryYear
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear by Lindsay MattickElementary2018
Elizabeth, Queen of the Seas by Lynne CoxElementary2018
A Dance Like Starlight: One Ballerina’s Dream by Kristy DempseyElementary2018
Hippopotamister by John Patrick GreenElementary2018
The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin HenkesElementary2018
When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop (Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award for New Talent) by Laban Carrick HillElementary2018
Tales of Bunjitsu Bunny by John HimmelmanElementary2018
Lindbergh: The Tale of a Flying Mouse by Torben KuhlmannElementary2018
Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber by Sue MacyElementary2018
Mango, Abuela, and Me by Meg MedinaElementary2018
Upside-Down Magic by Sarah MlynowskiElementary2018
Wet Cement: A Mix of Concrete Poems by Bob RaczkaElementary2018
Pugs of the Frozen North by Philip ReeveElementary2018
Blizzard by John RoccoElementary2018
My Pet Human by Yasmine SurovecElementary2018
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky AlbertalliHigh School2018
Red Rising by Pierce BrownHigh School2018
Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica HesseHigh School2018
Traffick by Ellen HopkinsHigh School2018
We Are the Ants by Shaun David HutchinsonHigh School2018
Dumplin' by Julie MurphyHigh School2018
The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick NessHigh School2018
X: A Novel by Ilyasah ShabazzHigh School2018
More Happy than Not by Adam SilveraHigh School2018
The Way I Used to Be by Amber SmithHigh School2018
The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker BradleyIntermediate2018
Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss BertmanIntermediate2018
A Whole New Ballgame: A Rip and Red Book by Phil BildnerIntermediate2018
Kinda Like Brothers by Coe BoothIntermediate2018
Under the Egg by Laura Marx FitzgeraldIntermediate2018
Gabriel Finley and the Raven's Riddle by George HagenIntermediate2018
Took: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing HahnIntermediate2018
Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly HuntIntermediate2018
Ratscalibur (Chronicles of the Low Realm) by Josh LiebIntermediate2018
The Tapper Twins Go to War (With Each Other) by Geoff RodkeyIntermediate2018
Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. SchmidtTeen2018
I Kill the Mockingbird by Paul AcamporaTeen2018
Full Cicada Moon by Marilyn HiltonTeen2018
The Last Boy at St. Edith's by Lee Gjertsen MaloneTeen2018
The Novice by Taran MatharuTeen2018
The Seventh Most Important Thing by Shelley PearsallTeen2018
I Am Princess X by Cherie PriestTeen2018
The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason ReynoldsTeen2018
Thirteen Chairs by Dave SheltonTeen2018
Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca SteadTeen2018

Descriptions

The Nutmeg Book Award encourages children in grades 2-12 to read quality literature and to choose their favorite from a list of ten nominated titles. We have lists for four divisions: Elementary (grades 2-4), Intermediate (grades 4-6), Teen (grades 7-8) and High School (grades 9-12). Jointly sponsored by the Connecticut Library Association (CLA) and the Connecticut Association of School Librarians (CASL),the Nutmeg Committee is comprised of children's librarians and school library media specialists who are members of our sponsoring organizations. (English, Member-written)
Connecticut's childrens choice award. (English, Member-written)

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