Connecticut Nutmeg Reading Program

Each year in March, Mrs. Julie Scanlon, children's coordinator at the Sherman Library Association, and Mrs. Anne Krieg order books which have been selected as Connecticut Nutmeg Nominees for the next year. In past years fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students will vote the next January on their favorite. This year for the first time, books were also nominated to be read by seventh and eighth graders.  In November before voting in January, Nutmeg Readers are invited to a "Library Sleep-in". For more information, see the official web site at www.nutmegaward.org/ where there are pictures and annotations for each book.

2007 Nutmeg Nominees Grades 4-6:

Becoming Naomi Leon, by Pam Munoz Ryan

The Boy Who Saved Baseball, by John H. Ritter

Brainboy and the Deathmaster, by Tor Seidler

Gifts from the Sea, by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock

Granny Torrelli Makes Soup, by Sharon Creech

Half and Half, by Lensey Namioka

Kensuke's Kingdom, by Michael Morpurgo

Marcaroni Boy, by Katherine Ayes

Thunder from the Sea, by Joan Hiatt Harlow

The Warriors, by Joseph Bruchac

2007 Nutmeg Nominees Grades 7-8: 

Airborn: by Kenneth Oppel

For Freedom, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Inventing Elliot, by Graham Gardner

Jumpman Rule #1, by James Valentine

Mortal Engines, by Philip Reeve

Milkweed, by Jerry Spinelli

Mississippi Trial, 1955, by Chris Crowe

Say Yes, by Audrey Couloumbis

Under the Same Sky, by Cynthia Defelice

Vampire High, by Douglas Rees