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Nutmeg Book Awards: 2025 Nominees

2025 Nutmeg Award 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

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

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

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

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