https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl Check out the 2023 Intermediate Nutmeg Nominees! Scroll side to side to see all the books. Then, scroll down on each book to read a summary, view a video, a link to the author website as well as a picture of the author. en-us 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC 2025-09-27 23:15:35 UTC hello@padlet.com elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756254 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756254 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756256 For as long as Robinson Hart can remember, it’s just been her and Grandpa. Robbie knows they look like an odd pair, because her blond hair and pale skin don’t match his dark complexion—but those differences don’t mean anything to her. And though she wishes Grandpa would tell her more about the rest of her family, she’s learned over the years that he doesn’t like to talk about the past.

But Grandpa’s memory is starting to get bad, and Robbie’s worried that soon he won’t remember their family—including her—at all. She’s sure that he would get better if she could stay out of trouble, but it’s hard to keep her fists to herself when bullies like Alex Carter make fun of her for not having a mom or for looking so different from Grandpa. It’s up to Robbie to learn how to deal with her anger and to keep her family together—no matter what.]]> 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756256 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756257 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756257 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756258 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756258 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756262 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756262 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756263 Katie is dreading the boring summer ahead while her best friends are all away at camp--something that's way out of Katie and her mom's budget, UNLESS Katie can figure out a way earn the money for camp herself. But when Katie gets a job catsitting for her mysterious upstairs neighbor, life get interesting.

First, Madeline has 217 cats (!) and they're not exactly . . . normal cats. Also, why is Madeline always out EXACTLY when the city's most notorious villain commits crimes?! Is it possible that Katie's upstairs neighbor is really a super villain?

Can Katie wrangle a whole lot of wayward cats, save a best friendship (why is Beth barely writing back? And who's this boy she keeps talking about?!), AND crack the biggest story in the city's history? Some heroes have capes . . . Katie has cats!]]> 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756263 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756264 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756264 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756265 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756265 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756266 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756266 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756267 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756267 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756269 Louie doesn't have the best luck when it comes to nurturing small creatures. So when his father brings home a sickly newborn mini donkey, he's determined to save him. He names him Winslow. Taking care of him helps Louie feel closer to his brother, Gus, who is far, far away in the army.

Everyone worries that Winslow won't survive, especially Louie’s quirky new friend, Nora, who has experienced loss of her own. But as Louie's bond with Winslow grows, surprising and life-altering events prove that this fragile donkey is stronger than anyone could have imagined.

]]> 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756269 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756270 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756270 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756271 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756271 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756272

]]> 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756272 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756274 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756274 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756275 A boy is imprisoned by a witch and must tell her a new scary story each night to stay alive. This thrilling contemporary fantasy from J. A. White, brings to life the magic and craft of storytelling.

Alex’s original hair-raising tales are the only thing keeping the witch Natacha happy, but soon he’ll run out of pages to read from and be trapped forever. He’s loved scary stories his whole life, and he knows most don’t have a happily ever after. Now that Alex is trapped in a true terrifying tale, he’s desperate for a different ending—and a way out of this twisted place.


]]> 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756275 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756276 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756276 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756277 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756277 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756278 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756278 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756282 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756282 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756283 Kate and her younger brother Tom lead dull, uninteresting lives. And if their dull, uninteresting parents are anything to go by, they don't have much to look forward to. Why can't Kate have thrilling adventures and save the world the way people do in books? Even her 11th birthday is shaping up to be mundane -- that is, until her mysterious and highly irresponsible Uncle Herbert, whom she's never even met before, surprises her with the most unexpected, exhilarating, inappropriate birthday present of all time: a colossal steam locomotive called the Silver Arrow.

Kate and Tom's parents want to send it right back where it came from. But Kate and Tom have other ideas -- and so does the Silver Arrow -- and soon they're off to distant lands along magical rail lines in the company of an assortment of exotic animals who, it turns out, can talk. With only curiosity, excitement, their own resourcefulness and the thrill of the unknown to guide them, Kate and Tom are on the adventure of a lifetime...and who knows? They just might end up saving the world after all.]]> 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756283 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756284 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756284 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756285 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756285 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756287 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756287 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756288 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756288 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756290 All Nestor Lopez wants is to live in one place for more than a few months and have dinner with his dad.

When he and his mother move to a Texas to live with his grandmother after his dad's latest deployment, Nestor plans to lay low. He definitely doesn't want anyone to find out his deepest secret: that he can talk to animals.

But when the animals in his new town start disappearing, Nestor's grandmother becomes the prime suspect after she is spotted in the woods where they were last seen. As Nestor investigates the source of the disappearances, he learns that they are being seized by a tule vieja -- a witch who can absorb an animal's powers by biting it during a solar eclipse. And the next eclipse is just around the corner...

Now it's up to Nestor's extraordinary ability and his new friends to catch the tule vieja -- and save a place he just might call home.]]> 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756290 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756291 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756291 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756292 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756292 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756293 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756293 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756294 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756294 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756295 Omar and his younger brother, Hassan, have spent most of their lives in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. Life is hard there: never enough food, achingly dull, and without access to the medical care Omar knows his nonverbal brother needs. So when Omar has the opportunity to go to school, he knows it might be a chance to change their future . . . but it would also mean leaving his brother, the only family member he has left, every day.

Heartbreak, hope, and gentle humor exist together in this graphic novel about a childhood spent waiting, and a young man who is able to create a sense of family and home in the most difficult of settings. ]]> 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756295 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756296 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756296 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756297 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756297 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756298

]]> 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756298 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756300 When 11-year-old Langston's mother dies in 1946, he and his father leave rural Alabama for Chicago's brown belt as a part of what came to be known as the Great Migration. It's lonely in the small apartment with just the two of them, and at school Langston is bullied. But his new home has one fantastic thing. Unlike the whites-only library in Alabama, the local public library welcomes everyone. There, hiding out after school, Langston discovers another Langston, a poet whom he learns inspired his mother enough to name her only son after him.

]]> 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756300 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756302 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756302 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756304 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756304 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756305 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756305 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756306 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756306 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756307 At a time when everything in her small town of Seaside, Rhode Island, seems like it’s changing, eleven-year-old Izzy Vitale wants things to stay the same. She wants her dad to start acting like he did before he was deployed to Afghanistan, she wants her mom to move back to the marina where they live, but most of all, she wants best friends – Piper and Zelda (dubbed the Sea Star Posse by their kindergarten teacher) – to stay best friends as they begin sixth grade at the regional middle school.

Then, Izzy’s father invites his former Army interpreter from Afghanistan and his whole family – including eleven-year-old Sitara — to move into the upstairs apartment at the marina. Izzy doesn’t know what to make of Sitara with her hijab and refusal to eat cafeteria food. She does know that her constant presence has become like a rogue wave disrupting the normally easy flow of the Sea Star Posse. But as Izzy gets to know Sitara, she can’t help but admire her self-confidence and pride in her Muslim faith. Little by little, Izzy begins to realize there exists a world much larger than her safe but insulated harbor in Seaside.

When hate messages start showing up at the girls school and at the marina, Izzy and Sitara team up to discover the source of the vandalism. But what Izzy ultimately learns, will force her to make a choice: remain silent and betray Sitara or speak up for what she knows is right – even if it means losing the Sea Star Posse forever.]]> 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756307 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756309 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756309 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756310 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756310 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756311 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756311 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756312 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756312 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756313 Zoe Washington isn’t sure what to write. What does a girl say to the father she’s never met, hadn’t heard from until his letter arrived on her twelfth birthday, and who’s been in prison for a terrible crime?
A crime he says he never committed.
Could Marcus really be innocent? Zoe is determined to uncover the truth. Even if it means hiding his letters and her investigation from the rest of her family. Everyone else thinks Zoe’s worrying about doing a good job at her bakery internship and proving to her parents that she’s worthy of auditioning for Food Network’s Kids Bake Challenge.
But with bakery confections on one part of her mind, and Marcus’s conviction weighing heavily on the other, this is one recipe Zoe doesn’t know how to balance. The only thing she knows to be true: Everyone lies.]]> 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756313 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756314 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756314 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756315 2022-04-01 16:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125756315 elongo6 https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125841770 2022-04-01 17:50:59 UTC https://padlet.com/elongo6/fi845bng8618irvl/wish/2125841770