Nutmeg Book Awards
Every year, on May 1, the new nominees for the award are announced. These nominees get grouped into four categories: Elementary (Grades 2-3), Intermediate (Grades 4-6), Middle School (Grades 7-8), and High School (Grades 9-12). Children then have a year to read the nominated titles and vote for their favorite.
Many of the titles on these lists have ebook and audiobook versions available through RBdigital or Overdrive/Libby, so you can enjoy them even while the library building is closed to the public due to COVID-19.
After the Fall (How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again)
by Dan Santat
Because
Score by Mo Willems (author) Performance by Amber Ren (illustrator)
Borrowing Bunnies: A Surprising True Tale of Fostering Rabbits
by Cynthia Lord, photographs by John Bald, illustrations by Hazel Mitchell
The Cardboard Kingdom
by Chad Sell
Carter Reads the Newspaper
by Deborah Hopkinson, illustrated by Don Tate
Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams
by Lesa Cline-Ransome, illustrations by James Ransome.
Ida, Always
by Caron Levis, illustrated by Charles Santoso
Infamous Ratsos
by Kara LaReau, illustrated by Matt Myers
Jasmine Toguchi: Mochi Queen
by Debbi Michiko Florence
Magic Ramen: The Story of Momofuko Ando
by Andrea Wang, illustrated by Kana Urbanowicz
Rescue & Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship
by Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes, illustrated by Scott Magoon
Seashells: More than a Home
by Melissa Stewart, illustrated by Sarah S. Brannen
We Don’t Eat Our Classmates
by Ryan T. Higgins
Wedgie and Gizmo
by Suzanne Selfors, illustrated by Barbara Fisinger
The World is Not a Rectangle: A Portrait of Architect Zaha Hadid
by Jeanette Winter
Framed!
by James Ponti
Front Desk
by Kelly Yang
The Great Treehouse War
by Lisa Graff
I Love You, Michael Collins
by Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess
by Shari Green
The Nameless City
by Faith Erin Hicks
New Kid
by Jerry Craft
The Peculiar Incident on Shady Street
by Lindsay Currie
Restart
by Gordon Korman
The Belles
by Dhonielle Clayton
The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora
by Pablo Cartaya
Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World
by Ashley Herring Blake
New Kid
by Jerry Craft
The Night Diary
by Veera Hiranandani
Nyxia
by Scott Reintgen
The Prince and the Dressmaker
by Jen Wang
Small Spaces
by Katherine Arden
The Stars Beneath Our Feet
by David Barclay Moore
After the Shot Drops
by Randy Ribay
American Road Trip
by Patrick Flores-Scott
Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree
by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey
by Ngozi Ukazu
Dread Nation
by Justina Ireland
A Heart In A Body In The World
by Deb Caletti
Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe
by Preston Norton
The Nowhere Girls
by Amy Reed
The Poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo
