Nutmeg Book Award

2025 Nutmeg Book Award Nominees

2025 Nutmeg Winner

2024 Nutmeg Book Award Winners

Past Elementary (Grades 2-4) Winners

2020: A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold

2019: The Bad Guys by Aaron Blabey

2018: Finding Winnie by Lindsay Mattick

2017: Hilo: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth by Judd Winnick

2016: Jedi Academy by Jeffrey Brown

2015: The Day The Crayons Quit by Drew Dawalt

Past Intermediate (Grades 4-6) Winners

2020: Ban this Book by Alan Gratz

2019: Awkward by Svetlana Chmakova

2018: The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

2017: Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson

2016: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

2015: The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann

2014: Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper

2013: Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea

2012: Stolen Children by Peg Kehret

2011: The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies

2010: Double Identity by Margaret Peterson Haddix

2009: MVP*Magellan Voyage Project by Douglas Evans

2008: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

2007: Thunder From the Sea by Joan Hiatt Harlow

2006: The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

2005: Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac

2004: Babe and Me by Dan Gutman

2003: Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

2002: Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix

2001: 101 Ways to Bug Your Parents by Lee Wardlaw

2000: Million Dollar Shot by Dan Gutman

1999: Mick Harte Was Here by Barbara Park

1998: The Private Notebook of Kate Roberts by Amy Hest

1997: Shape-Changer by Bill Brittain

1996: The Grand Escape by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

1995: The Biggest Klutz in the Fifth Grade by Bill Wallace

1994: Shiloh! by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

1993: My Teacher is an Alien by Bruce Coville

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