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Nutmeg Book Award Announces 2013 Winners

After an extra few months of reading, we are excited to announce the
2013 Nutmeg Book Award Winners!

Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea is the winner of the Intermediate
Award and 
Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry is the winner of the Teen Award.

Because of Mr. Terupt was suggested to the Selection Committee by a
student reader, truly demonstrating the influence our young readers have
on this award. Rot & Ruin won with a small margin over The Running Dream
with only 58 votes separating the 1st and 2nd place titles. Over 30,000
students voted from across the state of Connecticut. 

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.

 

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

 

Intermediate Book Award
Total votes:  22, 308

6,197 Because of Mr. Terupt
4,855 Tale Dark & Grimm
3,148 My Life as a Book
2,399 Powerless
1,897 Baseball Great
1,431 Potato Chip Puzzles
919     Born to Fly
727     Wonder of Charlie Anne
577     Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
158     Where the Mountain Meets the Moon      

 

Teen Book Award 
Total votes: 8849

1,448   Rot & Ruin
1,390   The Running Dream
1,204   Matched
1,015   A Long Walk to Water
878     Bruiser
830     After Ever After
673     The Grimm Legacy
612     Trash
513     The Accidental Genius of Weasel High 
286     Evolution, Me and Other Freaks of Nature

 
Lisa Garofalo & Joan Stokes 
2013 Nutmeg Committee Co-Chairpersons

 

 

Lisa Garofalo

School Librarian

Ellington Middle School & Crystal Lake School

Ellington, CT

lgarofalo at ellingtonschools.net 

 

Co-Chair, Nutmeg Book Award Steering Committee 



 

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