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Nutmeg Book Awards: 2022 Nominees

Elementary Nominees Grades 2-3

Link to Investigators by John Green in the Catalog

2022 Winner

Link to Big Foot and Little Foot by Ellen Potter in the Catalog
Link to CatStronauts : Mission Moon by Drew Brockington in the Catalog
Link to Dinosaur lady : the daring discoveries of Mary Anning, the first paleontologist by Linda Skeers in the Catalog
Link to Just ask! : be different, be brave, be you by Sonia Sotomayor in the Catalog
Link to Little leaders : bold women in black history by Vashti Harrison in the Catalog
Link to Meet Yasmin! by Saadia Faruqi in the Catalog
Link to Megabat by Anna Humphrey in the Catalog
Link to Moth : an evolution story by Isabel Thomas in the Catalog
Link to My papi has a motorcycle by Isabel Quintero in the Catalog
Link to The proudest blue : a story of hijab and family by Ibtihaj Muhammad in the Catalog
Link to Seeds Move! by Robin Page in the Catalog
Link to Superlative Birds by Leslie Bulion in the Catalog
Link to The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander in the Catalog
Link to We are water protectors by Carole Lindstrom in the Catalog

Intermediate Nominees Grades 4-6

Link to Wink by Rob Harrell in the Catalog

2022 Winner

Link to Clean Getaway by Nic Stone in the Catalog
Link to Cog by Greg Van Eekhout in the Catalog
Link to Emmy in the Key of Code by Aimee Lucido in the Catalog
Link to Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson in the Catalog
Link to Planet Earth is Blue by Nicole Panteleakos in the Catalog
Link to The remarkable journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart in the Catalog
Link to Sal & Gabi break the universe by Carlos Alberto Pablo Hernandez in the Catalog
Link to Sanity & Tallulah by Molly Brooks in the Catalog
Link to You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P! by Alex Gino in the Catalog

Middle School Nominees Grades 7-8

Link to Insignificant events in the life of a cactus by Dusti Bowling in the Catalog

2022 Winner

Link to The benefits of Being an Octopus by Ann Braden in the Catalog
Link to Charlie Thorne and the last equation by Stuart Gibbs in the Catalog
Link to The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. PeĢrez in the Catalog
Link to Genesis Begins Again by Alicia Williams in the Catalog
Link to Good Enough by Jen Petro-Roy in the Catalog
Link to Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish by Pablo Cartaya in the Catalog
Link to Pet by Akwaeke Emezi in the Catalog
Link to Snapdragon by Kat Leyh in the Catalog
Link to Tristan Strong punches a hole in the sky by Kwame Mbalia in the Catalog

High School Nominees Grades 9-12

Link to Sadie by Courtney Summers in the Catalog

2022 Winner

Link to Cosmoknights by Hannah Templer in the Catalog
Link to A Curse so Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer, in the Catalog
Link to Darius the Great is not Okay by Adib Khorram in the Catalog
Link to Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia in the Catalog
Link to The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe in the Catalog
Link to The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys in the Catalog
Link to Grimoire Noir by Vera Greentea in the Catalog
Link to When My Heart Joins the Thousand by A. J. Ste iger in the Catalog
Link to Solo by Kwame Alexander in the Catalog