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Nutmeg Book Awards: 2025 Nominees

Elementary Nominees Grades 2-3

Cover of Yoshi's Big Swim: One Turtle's Epic Journey Home by Mary Wagley Copp

2025 Winner

Link to Anglerfish: the Seadevil of the Deep by Elaine Alexander in the catalog

Link to Aven Green Sleuthing Machine by Dusti Bowling in the catalog

Link to Batcat by Meggie Ramm in the catalog

Link to The Best of Iggy by Annie Barrows in the catalog

Link to Big Truck Little Island by Chris Van Dusen in the catalog

Link to Dear Beast by Dori Hillestad Butler in the catalog

Link to Ducks Overboard!: a True Story of Plastic in Our Oceans by Markus Motum in the catalog

Link to Evergreen by Matthew Cordell in the catalog

Link to Everything in Its Place by Pauline David-Sax in the catalog

Link to Fauja Singh Keeps Going by Simran Jeet Singh in the catalog

Link to The Great Stink by Colleen Paeff in the catalog

Link to My Two Border Towns by David Bowles in the catalog

Cover of The Sweetest Scoop: Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Revolution by Lisa Robinson

Link to Wombats! Go Camping by Maddie Frost in the catalog

Intermediate Nominees Grades 4-6

Link to Invisible by Christina Diaz Gonzalez in the catalog

2025 Winner

Link to Anybody Here Seen Frenchie? by Leslie Connor in the catalog

Link to The Canyon's Edge by Dusti Bowling in the catalog

Link to Chester Keene Cracks the Code by Kekla Magoon in the catalog

Link to Cookies and Milk by Shawn Amos in the catalog

Link to Falling Short by Ernesto Cisneros in the catalog

Cover of Loki: a Bad God's Guide to Being Good by Louie Stowell in the catalog

Link to A Rover's Story by Jasmine Warga in the catalog

Link to Tumble by Celia C. Perez in the catalog

Link to Wayward Creatures by Dayna Lorentz in the catalog

Middle School Nominees Grades 7-8

Link to Starfish by Lisa Fipps in the catalog

2025 Winner

Link to African Town by Irene Latham in the catalog

Link to Bloom by Kenneth Oppel in the catalog

Link to Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger in the catalog

Link to Invisible by Christina Diaz Gonzalez in the catalog

Link to Iveliz Explains It All by Andrea Beatriz Arango

Link to King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender in the catalog

Link to Obie Is Man Enough by Schuyler Bailar in the catalog

Link to Troublemaker by John Cho in the catalog

Link to Year of the Reaper by Makiia Lucier

High School Nominees Grades 9-12

Link to Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir in the catalog

2025 Winner

Link to All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir in the catalog

Link to As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoula Katouh in the catalog

Link to A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik in the catalog

Link to Golden Arm by Carl Deuker in the catalog

Link to The Honeys by Ryan La Sala in the catalog

Link to I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys in the catalog

Link to Kneel by Candace Buford in the catalog

Link to Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles in the catalog

Link to The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson in the catalog

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