[CASL-L] 2012 Nutmeg Award winners

[David Bilmes]

Nutmeg Children’s Book Award Announces 2012 Winners

        The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Stolen Children by Peg Kehret are this year's Nutmeg Book Award winners.
The Hunger Wars was a runaway winner in the Teen level 2012 Nutmeg Award, while Stolen Children edged out Deep, Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn by only 54 votes out of nearly 19,000 that were cast to win the Intermediate Level voting.

This award encourages children in grades 4-8 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 library media specialists who are members of our sponsoring organizations. Next year, the Nutmeg Award will be adding a high school level list.

        Almost 30,000 students from 500 schools and libraries voted in total. 

The Hunger Games, a dystopian fiction story, received 6,110 votes to finish far ahead of the second place title, The Compound by S.A. Bodeen, which received 1,018 votes in the teen category. Stolen Children, a thriller about a 14-year-old girl who is kidnaped while baby-sitting a young child, received 5,568 votes to narrowly defeat Deep, Dark and Dangerous: A Ghost Story, which received 5,114 votes in the Intermediate category. 

Our thanks go to all of the schools and libraries which participated in this year's voting. 

     Vote totals: Intermediate            18,782

Stolen Children                                        5,568
Deep and Dark and Dangerous                    5,514
Dying to Meet You                                     3,059 
Gollywhopper Games                                 2,708
Savvy                                                        2,635
Herbert's Wormhole                                   2,287 
Masterpiece                                            1,502
Extra Credit                                               1,356
Signal                                                       1,093 
Key to Rondo                                             996


Vote Totals: Teen                         11,190

The Hunger Games 6,110
The Maze Runner 1,102
The Compound 1,018
Scat 764
I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President
588
Pop 468
Princess of the Midnight Ball 356
Viola in the Reel Life 343
Ostrich Boys 266
The Rock and the River 175

David Bilmes and Kristin Raiche
2012 Nutmeg Committee Co-Chairpersons



David Bilmes
Library Media Specialist
Schaghticoke Middle School
23 Hipp Road
New Milford, CT 06776
(860) 354-2204, ext. 113 or 115
bilmesd at newmilfordps.org 

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