It is time to VOTE for the 2022 Nutmeg Nominees.

Please click on the buttons below the nominee lists to access the PDF descriptions for the nominees of each level.

Use the links below each level to vote electronically or come to the library for paper ballots. You can only vote 1 time for each level. Voting will open on April 1 and end on April 30.

• Big Foot and Little Foot by Ellen Potter, art by Felicita Sala
• CatStronauts: Mission Moon by Drew Brockington
• Dinosaur Lady: The Daring Discoveries of Mary Anning, the First Paleontologist by Linda Skeers, art by Marta Alvarez Miguens
• InvestiGATORS by John Patrick Green
• Just Ask: Be Different, Be Brave, Be You by Sonia Sotomayor, art by Rafael Lopez
• Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison
• Meet Yasmin! by Saadia Faruqi, art by Hatem Aly
• Megabat by Anna Humphrey, art by Kass Reich
• Moth: An Evolution Story by Isabel Thomas & Daniel Egneus
• My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero, art by Zeke Pena
• The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family by Ibtihaj Muhammad, with S.K. Ali, art by Hatem Aly
• Seeds Move! by Robin Page
• Superlative Birds by Leslie Bulion, art by Robert Meganck
• The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander & Kadir Nelson
• We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom, art by Michaela Goade

• Clean Getaway by Nic Stone
• COG by Greg Van Eekhout
• Emmy in the Key of Code by Aimee Lucido
• Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson
• Planet Earth is Blue by Nicole Panteleakos
• The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart
• Sal & Gabi Break the Universe by Carlos Hernandez
• Sanity & Tallulah by Molly Brooks
• Wink by Rob Harrell
• You Don’t Know Everything, Jilly P! by Alex Gino

• The Benefits of Being an Octopus by Ann Braden
• Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation by Stuart Gibbs
• The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Perez
• Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
• Good Enough by Jen Petro-Roy
• Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling
• Marcus Vega Doesn’t Speak Spanish by Pablo Cartaya
• Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
• Snapdragon by Kat Leyh
• Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia

• Cosmoknights (Book One) by Hannah Templer
• A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
• Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
• Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia
• The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe
• The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
• Grimoire Noir by Vera Greentea & Yana Bogatch
• Sadie by Courtney Summers
• Solo by Kwame Alexander with Mary Rand Hess
• When My Heart Joins the Thousand by A.J. Steiger

• Bear Goes Sugaring by Maxwell Eaton III
• Crossings: Extraordinary Structures for Extraordinary Animals by Katy S. Duffield, art by Mike Orodán
• Digging for Words: José Alberto Gutiérrez and the Library He Built by Angela Burke Kunkel, art by Paola Escobar
• The Floating Field: How a Group of Thai Boys Built Their Own Soccer Field by Scott Riley, art by Nguyen Quang and Kim Lien
• In a Jar by Deborah Marcero
• It Began With a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way by Kyo Maclear, art by Julie Morstad
• J.D. and the Great Barber Battle by J. Dillard, art by Akeem S. Roberts
• King of the Birds by Elise Gravel
• Lift by Minh Lê, art by Dan Santat
• Maybe Tomorrow? by Charlotte Agell, art by Ana Ramírez González
• Mr. Summerling’s Secret Code by Dori Hillestad Butler, art by Tim Budgen (Treasure Troop series, #1)
• Our Friend Hedgehog: The Story of Us by Lauren Castillo
• The Paper Kingdom by Helena Ku Rhee, art by Pascal Campion
• Salma the Syrian Chef by Danny Ramadan, art by Anna Bron
• Shadow Island by Mike and Nancy Deas

• Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome
• From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks
• A Galaxy of Sea Stars by Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo
• Just Like Jackie by Lindsey Stoddard
• Katie the Catsitter by Colleen AF Venable, illustrated by Stephanie Yue
• Nightbooks by J. A. White
• Saving Winslow by Sharon Creech
• The Silver Arrow by Lev Grossman
• The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez by Adrianna Cuevas
• When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed

• Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes
• Game Changer by Tommy Greenwald
• The Line Tender by Kate Allen
• Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds
• The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
• 96 Miles by J. L. Esplin
• Nowhere Boy by Katherine Marsh
• The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson
• Suggested Reading by Dave Connis
• Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang, art by Gurihiru

• All Eyes On Her by L. E. Flynn
• The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X. R. Pan
• Flamer by Mike Curato
• Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez
• The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
• The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
• More Than Just a Pretty Face by Syed M. Masood
• Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi with Yusef Salaam; art by Omar T. Pasha
• We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
• What I Carry by Jennifer Longo