State Award Reading List
Connecticut State Reading List
2009 Nutmeg Book Award Nominees
Intermediate
Golden & Grey (An Unremarkable Boy and a Rather Remarkable Ghost)
By: Louise Arnold
Cover By: Brett Helquist
This edition: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publication date: June 28, 2005
Ages: 8 - 12
Tom Golden is a boy who doesn't fit in.Grey Arthur is a ghost who can't figure out where he belongs. When a trick of fate creates an instant connection between them, Grey Arthur discovers what he is meant to be: Tom's...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
Return of the Homework Machine
By: Dan Gutman
Cover By: Dan Santat
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: June 2, 2009
Ages: 8 - 12
Snik, Brenton, Judy, and Kelsey haven't stayed in the best touch since last year's big homework-machine scandal. But they are all pulled back together again when Brenton realizes that the most powerful part of the machine --...
Other Formats: eBook
Teen
Ask Me No Questions
By: Marina Budhos
Cover By: Ferdinando Scianna
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: February 7, 2006
Ages: 10 - 14
"You forget. You forget you don't really exist here, that this isn't your home."Since emigrating from Bangladesh, fourteen-year-old Nadira and her family have been living in New York City on expired visas, hoping to realize...
Uglies
By: Scott Westerfeld
Cover By: Carissa Pelleteri / Designed by: Rodrigo Corral
This edition: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publication date: February 8, 2005
Ages: above 12
Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that?Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an...
Other Formats: eBook
