[CASL-L] 2025 Nutmeg Book Award Winners

[Porier, Anne]

In case you missed the latest Nutmeg newsletter
<https://sites.google.com/view/nutmegbookaward/newsletter-sign-up>, here
are the 2025 winners! Check out the Nutmeg Book Award website
<https://www.nutmegaward.org/about> for more information! Thank you for
your support of the Nutmeg Book Award!
Anne Porier
Co-Chair Nutmeg Steering Committee
Announcing the 2025 Nutmeg Book Award Winners!

*2025 Elementary Grades 2-3 Nutmeg Book Award Winner:*
*Yoshi's Big Swim: One Turtle's Epic Journey Home*
by Mary Wagley Copp, art by Kaja Kajfez

*2025 Intermediate Grades 4-6 Nutmeg Book Award Winner:*
*Invisible* by Christina Diaz Gonzalez, art by Gabriela Epstein

*2025 Middle School Grades Nutmeg Book Award Winner:*
*Starfish* by Lisa Fipps

*2025 High School Grades Nutmeg Book Award Winner:*
*Project Hail Mary* by Andy Weir
Thank you to everyone who made the 2025 Nutmeg Book Award possible!

A huge *THANK YOU* to all of the librarians and teachers who promoted these
titles over the past year, but especially to our 2025 Selection Committee
Chairpeople and all the Selection Committee Members for reading A LOT of
titles to bring us these amazing Winners!

*2025 Elementary Grades 2-3 Co-Chairpeople:*
Amy Rosenfield and Shana Shea
*2025 Intermediate Grades 4-6 Chairperson:*
Rebecca Kerrigan
*2025 Middle School Grades 7-8 Co-Chairpeople:*
Kelly Moore and Kristina Garner
*2025 High School Grades 9-12 Chairperson:*
Casey Laplante
*2026 Elementary Nutmeg Book Award Nominees:*

   - *Darwin's Super-Pooping Worm Spectacular* by Polly Owen, art by Gwen
   Millward
   - *The Egg Incident* by Ziggy Hanaor, art by Daisy Wynter
   - *Feathers Together* by Caron Levis, art by Charles Santoso
   - *Great Carrier Reef* by Jessica Stremer, art by Gordy Wright
   - *Henry, Like Always* by Jenn Bailey, art by Mika Song
   - *The Iguanodon's Horn: How Artists and Scientists Put a Dinosaur Back
   Together Again and Again... and Again* by Sean Rubin
   - *Just Harriet* by Elana K. Arnold, art by Dung Ho
   - *The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish* by Chloe Savage
   - *The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale* by Jon Klassen
   - *The World's Best Class Plant* by Liz Garton Scanlon & Audrey Vernick,
   art by Lynnor Bontigao

*2026 Intermediate Nutmeg Book Award Nominees:*

   - *Air* by Monica Roe
   - *The Carrefour Curse* by Dianne K. Salerni
   - *The Dog Knight* by Jeremy Whitley, art by Bre Indigo, colors by
   Melissa Capriglione
   - *Dogtown* by Katherine Applegate and Gennifer Choldenko, art by
   Wallace West
   - *Frizzy* by Claribel A. Ortega, art by Rose Bousamra
   - *Grounded* by Aisha Saeed, Huda Al-Marashi, Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow,
   & S.K. Ali
   - *It Found Us* by Lindsay Currie
   - *Moongarden* by Michelle A. Barry
   - *Speak Up!* by Rebecca Burgess
   - *Trex* by Christyne Morrell

*2026 Middle School Nutmeg Book Award Nominees:*

   - *Alone *by Megan E. Freeman
   - *Concealed* by Christina Diaz Gonzalez
   - *Don't Want To Be Your Monster* by Deke Moulton
   - *The Door of No Return* by Kwame Alexander
   - *Hamra and the Jungle of Memories *by Hanna Alkaf
   - *The Last Cuentista* by Donna Barba Higuera
   - *The Lost Year *by Katherine Marsh
   - *Simon Sort of Says* by Erin Bow
   - *Team Chu and the Battle of Blackwood Arena* by Julia C. Dao
   - *What Happened to Rachel Riley?* by Claire Swinarski

*2026 High School Nutmeg Book Award Nominees:*

   - *The 9:09 Project by Mark H. Parsons*
   - *For Lamb *by Lesa Cline-Ransome
   - *Gather *by Kenneth M. Cadow
   - *The Girls I've Been* by Tess Sharpe
   - *The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School* by Sonora Reyes
   - *Lunar New Year Love Story* by Gene Luen Yang & Leuyen Pham
   - *The Silence That Binds Us* by Joanna Ho
   - *Spin *by Rebecca Caprara
   - *The Spirit Bares Its Teeth* by Andrew Joseph White
   - *Throwback* by Maurene Goo

Color Flyers Available Here:
2026 Elementary Nominees Flyer
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2026 Intermediate Nominees Flyer
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2026 Middle School Nominees Flyer
<https://nutmegaward.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=15c8f45575e25dc8d6a0aaf1a&id=c62c5bdec0&e=8e89528f54>
2026 High School Nominees Flyer
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We Couldn't Have Done It Without Them!

A huge *THANK YOU* to our Selection Committee Chairs and all the Selection
Committee Members for reading and working together to make these amazing
nominee lists!


*2026 Elementary Grades 2-3 Co-Chairs:*
     Michele Kaminski and Sarah Prattson
*2026 Intermediate Grades 4-6 Chairs:*
     Meg Klein and Kristina Lareau
*2026 Middle School Grades 7-8 Co-Chairs:*
Ashley Ewert and Kristen Finnegan
*2026 High School Grades 9-12 Chairs:*
Cathy Andronik and Meg Glasgow
Leveled stickers are available to purchase on our website. The nominee
stickers are solid colors with the words Nutmeg Book Award and the level
nominee. There is a different color for each level. See examples here:
Nominee bookmarks and award winner foil seals are also available to
purchase online. We allow electronic credit card or PayPal payments through
our website. For more information on this, please go to our promotional
materials page
<https://nutmegaward.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=15c8f45575e25dc8d6a0aaf1a&id=22b6ffae99&e=8e89528f54>
.

If you still prefer to print, fill out and send a check, you will be able
to access that form on our website soon.

For questions regarding the orders of Promotional Materials, please contact
Kristin Raiche, Nutmeg Book Award Treasurer at: kraiche at enfield.org.
*Nutmeg Book Award Highlights From Around CT:*

Are you or your library doing something extra special to highlight the
Nutmeg Book Awards?  We want to hear about it!  Send your highlight to the
Nutmeg Book Award Steering Committee at nutmegbookaward1993 at gmail.com
<nutmegbookaward1993 at gmail.com?subject=Nutmeg%20Book%20Award%20Highlights> to
be featured in our next newsletter.

*Book Nominee Concerns:*

Selecting the books for the Nutmeg Book Award is a long and challenging
process that includes the input of librarians, educators, and students from
across the state.  We understand that these selections may not match the
preference of every individual, but hope that encouraging reading across
all ages and interests stays at the forefront of this Award.  Should you
have concerns about a title, please contact the appropriate committee
chairs.  The Nutmeg Book Award Selection Committee Chairs can be found
here: Committee Members Directory.
<https://nutmegaward.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=15c8f45575e25dc8d6a0aaf1a&id=7d585c62ea&e=8e89528f54>

*Copyright © 2025 Nutmeg Book Award*
Anne Porier
School Librarian
Moses Y. Beach Elementary School
Wallingford CT
aporier at wallingfordschools.org
203-294-3950
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