2009 Nutmeg Children's Book Award Nominees

Grades 4-6 Nominees

Blood on the River by Elisa Carbone           Close encounters of a third world kind by
                                                                                                          Jennifer J. Stewart
Eager by Helen Fox                                  Free Baseball by Sue Corbet

Golden & Gray by Louise Arnold               Gossamer by Lois Lowry

The Homework Machine by Dan Gutman   MVP by Douglas Evans

Shakespeare's Secret by Elise Broach          Three Good Deeds by Vivian Vande Velde

Teen Nominees

Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko        Ask Me No Questions by
                                                                                                                            Marina Budhos

The Case of the Missing Marquess by Nancy Springer    Dairy Queen by Catherine
                                                                                                                             Gilbert Murdock

Day of Tears by Julius Lester                 Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
 

Heat by Mike Lupica                              The Schwa Was Here by Neil Shusterman

Uglies by Scott Westerfield                      Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver