Kristi,
Are you forwarding this to gnm and Speak and maybe Conntech? Do you want me to do it?
Linda
From: CASL-L [mailto:casl-l-bounces+linda.williams=ct.gov@mylist.net] On Behalf Of Garofalo Lisa
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 8:05 AM
To: casl-l@mylist.net
Cc: Pamela Dear; Kristi Sadowski
Subject: [CASL-L] and the winners are...
Nutmeg Book Award Announces 2014 Winners!
The Nutmeg Steering Committee is excited to announce the 2014 Nutmeg Book Award Winners!
Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper is the winner of the Intermediate Award
Divergent by Veronica Roth is the winner of the Teen Award
Paper Towns by John Green is the winner of the first ever High School Nutmeg Book Award
Almost 20,000 students voted from across the state of Connecticut. For the first year of the High School Award, there was a strong showing of 22 schools/libraries participating in the voting with 420 votes cast. Slightly over a quarter of the votes, 112, were for the winning title Paper Towns. The winner for the Teen Award, Divergent, received an overwhelmingly majority of the votes with 4,230 of the 7,881 total votes. As usual, the votes for the Intermediate Book Award were a little more spread out but still a clear winner for Out of My Mind.
The Nutmeg Book Award encourages children to read quality literature and to choose their favorite from a list of ten nominated titles. Jointly sponsored by the Connecticut Library Association (CLA) and the Connecticut Association of School Librarians (CASL), the Nutmeg Committee is comprised of teen readers, children's librarians and school librarians who are members of our sponsoring organizations. 2014 was the first year the High School level was added and for the 2015 award, there is the addition of the Elementary Award with a selection of 15 nominees for students in grades 2-4.
Our thanks go to all of the schools and libraries and of course the students who participated in this year's voting!
Intermediate Book Award
Total votes: 17,349
5,689 Out of My Mind
3,815 The Candymakers
2,106 Closed for the Season
1,499 Wildfire Run
944 Inside Out and Back Again
933 Saving Armpit
776 The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman
620 Wild Girl
594 The Great Wall of Lucy Wu
373 Mike Stellar: Nerves of Steel
Teen Book Award
Total votes: 7881
4,230 Divergent
982 Michael Vey: Prisoner of Cell 25
455 Mindblind
417 The Lions of Little Rock
414 Now is the Time for Running
313 Page by Paige
299 City of Orphans
290 I’ll Be There
249 Okay for Now
232 Scorpio Races
High School Award
Total votes: 420
112 Paper Towns
92 Legend
49 Daughter of Smoke and Bone
49 Wintergirls
41 The Night Circus
24 Kings of Colorado
19 Hold Me Closer, Necromancer
16 Everybody Sees the Ants
10 Shine
8 Watch That Ends the Night
Pamela Dear & Kristi Sadowski
2014 Nutmeg Steering Committee Co-Chairpersons
Lisa Garofalo
School Librarian
Ellington Middle School & Crystal Lake School
Ellington, CT
lgarofalo@ellingtonschools.net
Secretary, Ellington Education Association
Secretary, Nutmeg Book Award Steering Committee