2012 Nutmeg Children's Book Award Nominees

Grades 4-6 Nominees

 Deep Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn        Dying to meet you by Kate Klise
                                                                                                        
 Extra Credit by Andrew Clements                                  The Gollywhopper Games by Jody Feldman

 Herbert's Wormhole by Peter Nelson                                 The Key to Rondo by Emily Rodda

 Masterpiece by Elise Broach                                            Savvy by Ingrid Law

 Signal by Cynthia De Felice                                             Stolen Children by Peg Kehret

Teen Nominees

 The Compound by S.A. Bodeen                                       The Hunger Games by Susan Collins
                                                                                                                           

 I Am A Genius Of Unspeakable Evil And I Want To Be Your Class President by Josh Lieb         
                                                                                                                            

 The Maze Runner by James Dashner                                 Ostrich Boys by Keith Gray
 

 Pop by Gordon Korman                    Princess of the midnight Sun by Jessica Day George                  

 The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon                           Scat by Carl Hiaasen

 Viola in the Reel Life by Adriana Trigiani