Connecticut State Reading Lists
Award Lists
2019 Nutmeg Book Award
Scythe
Two teens must learn the “art of killing” in this Printz Honor–winning book, the first in a chilling new series from Neal Shusterman, author of the...
2020 Nutmeg Book Award
Long Way Down
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is Na...
2021 Nutmeg Book Award Nominee
Ida, Always
A beautiful, honest portrait of loss and deep friendship told through the story of two iconic polar bears.Gus lives in a big park in the middle of ...
The World Is Not a Rectangle
A Portrait of Architect Zaha Hadid
A Washington Post Best Children’s Book of 2017 Parents’ Choice Recommended Get to know Zaha Hadid in this nonfiction picture book about the famed a...
Game Changers
The Story of Venus and Serena Williams
An ALA Notable Book “Every page is splashed with vibrant color and eye-catching patterns, and the figures of the women themselves are full of energ...
The Nowhere Girls
“A call-to-action to everyone out there who wants to fight back.” —Bustle “Subversive anti-sexism—just try to put it down.” —Kirkus Reviews (starre...
A Heart in a Body in the World
“This is one for the ages.” —Gayle Forman, author of the #1 bestseller If I Stay “A book everyone should read right now.” —The New York Times Book ...
Framed!
Get to know the only kid on the FBI Director’s speed dial and several international criminals’ most wanted lists all because of his Theory of All S...
The Peculiar Incident on Shady Street
A girl unravels a centuries-old mystery after moving into a haunted house in this deliciously suspenseful mystery.Tessa Woodward isn’t exactly thri...