The Connecticut Nutmeg Book Award
Elementary Award: Grades 2-4Intermediate Award: Grades 4-6Teen Award: Grades 7-8High School Award: Grades 9-12
Click on the links below to review what books are currently available at the Meriden Public Library. As always, staff is available to help you place holds on items that may be checked out.
Elementary Nominees
Blizzard by John Rocco
A Dance Like Starlight by Kristy Depsey & Floyd Cooper
Elizabeth, Queen of the Seas by Lynne Cox
Finding Winnie by Lindsay Mattick
Hippopotamister by John X Green
Lindbergh by Torben Kuhlmann
Mango, Abuela, and Me by Meg Medina
Miss Mary Reporting by Sue Macy
My Pet Human by Yasmine Surovec
Pugs of the Frozen North by Philip Reeve
Tales of Bunjitsu Bunny by John Himmelman
Upside-Down Magic by Sarah Mlynowski, Lauren Myracle & Emily Jenkins
Wet Cement by Bob Raczka
When the Beat Was Born by Laban Carricj Hill
The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes
Intermediate Nominees
Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Gabriel Finley and the Raven’s Riddle by George Hagen
Kinda Like Brothers by Coe Booth
Ratscalibur by Josh Lieb
The Tapper Twins Go to War (with Each Other) by Jeff Rodkey
Took: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn
Under the Egg by Laura Marx Fitzgerald
The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
A Whole New Ballgame by Phil Bildner
Teen Nominees
The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds
Full Cicada Moon by Marilyn Hilton
Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead
I am Princess X by Cherie Priest
I Kill the Mockingbird by Paul Acampora
The Last Boy at St. Edith’s by Lee Gjertsen Malone
The Novice by Taran Matharu
Orbiting Jupiter by Gary Schmidt
The Seventh Most Important Thing by Shelley Pearsall
Thirteen Chairs by Dave Shelton
High School Nominees
Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy
Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
Simon vs. the Homo Sapien Agenda by Becky Albertalli
Traffick by Ellen Hopkins
The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith
We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz and Kekla Magoon
