[CASL-L] Nutmeg Book Award programs

[Cathy Andronik]

I've been using the High School Nutmeg nominees with my school book club since the inception of that level.  We've passed 40 members this year!  I give a short booktalk on each of the nominees each May, and the members choose which 4 or 5 they'd like to read with the club.  (We meet every 6 weeks or so through the school year.)  Then I apply for a DonorsChoose grant to buy copies of the books.  I've asked the kids what they think of the books we read, which are not always the hottest current titles (thinking Hunger Games or Maze Runner), and I love the response:  "we like them because they're not books we would necessarily pick up randomly on our own."  The Nutmeg choices provide great discussion material (the club was POLARIZED over "Leonard Peacock," with some loving it and some HATING it, which made for a heated half hour!!!; and we had a hard time watching our pronouns with "Every Day").  I always try to find a tech/online component to our discussions; for instance, we enjoyed the character website that went along with "The Diviners," I showed a clip from a Sun Ra film for "Boy21" and a Bogart/Bacall scene for "Leonard Peacock" (most of the kids had no clue who they were), and had the playlist of dance music running behind our "This Song Will Save Your Life" discussion.  I just snagged a YALSA/Dollar General grant to run a summer book club at the local public library in collaboration with the Teen Librarian there, which will focus on three of the latest Nutmeg high school nominees.  I encourage the book club kids to vote for their favorite, of course!

Cathy Andronik
Teacher Librarian
Brien McMahon High School
Norwalk
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On Fri, 2/19/16, LaPlante, Casey <LaPlanteC at granby.k12.ct.us> wrote:

 Subject: [CASL-L] Nutmeg Book Award programs
 To: "casl-l at mylist.net" <casl-l at mylist.net>
 Date: Friday, February 19, 2016, 12:43 PM
 
 
 
  
  
 
 
 
 
 Do you know of any amazing
 Nutmeg Award programs going on in school or public
 libraries? 
 Please let us know!   
 We are looking for library
 programs to highlight during a workshop session at the 2016
 CLA Conference in April.  Book discussions, clubs,
 celebrations, 
 author visits,
 etc.—any programs that get kids excited about the
 Nutmegs.  Any level, from elementary to high school,
 please share your ideas and
  
 we will absolutely give
 you credit! 
    
 Send any relevant info to
 us at:  
 laplantec at granbyschools.org or haronson at biblio.org
 
    
 We appreciate your help
 and your input! 
    
 Casey LaPlante 
 2017 HS Nutmeg Book Award
 Co-Chair 
    
 Heather Aronson 
 2016 Nutmeg Book Award
 Steering Committee Chair 
    
    
 
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