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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
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
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
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...
Uglies
By: Scott Westerfeld
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...
2010 Connecticut Book Award Nominee
Children’s Book - Author
Happenstance Found
(Part of Books of Umber, The)
By: P. W. Catanese
This edition: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publication date: January 27, 2009
Ages: 8 - 12
Twelve-year-old Happenstance awakens in a cave with no memory of who he is or how he came to be there. Soon a mysterious trio arrives to take him away: the explorer Umber, the shy archer Sophie, and Oates, whose strength and...
Connecticut Winners List
2010 Nutmeg Book Award
Intermediate
Double Identity
By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
This edition: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publication date: August 23, 2005
Ages: 10 - 14
So my only protection is a kindergarten teacher and a ninety-eight-pound female minister....And they don't even believe I'm in danger.
As Bethany approaches her thirteenth birthday, her parents act more oddly than usual....