Intermediate Grades 4-6

Past Intermediate Grades 4-6 Winners

2023: When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed

2022: Wink by Rob Harrell

2021: Restart by Gordon Korman

2020: Ban this Book by Alan Gratz 

2019: Awkward by Svetlana Chmakova

2018: The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

2017: Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson

2016: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

2015: The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann

2014:  Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper

2013:  Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea

2012: Stolen Children by Peg Kehret

2011: The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies

2010:  Double Identity by Margaret Peterson Haddix

2009:  MVP*Magellan Voyage Project by Douglas Evans

2008: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

2007: Thunder From the Sea by Joan Hiatt Harlow

2006: The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

2005: Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac

2004: Babe and Me by Dan Gutman

2003: Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

2002: Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix

2001: 101 Ways to Bug Your Parents by Lee Wardlaw

2000: Million Dollar Shot by Dan Gutman

1999: Mick Harte Was Here by Barbara Park

1998:  The Private Notebook of Kate Roberts by Amy Hest

1997: Shape-Changer by Bill Brittain

1996: The Grand Escape by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

1995: The Biggest Klutz in the Fifth Grade by Bill Wallace

1994: Shiloh! by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

1993: My Teacher is an Alien by Bruce Coville

Intermediate Grades 4-6 Past Nominees and Resources

For Intermediate Grades 4-6 nominee selection criteria, see our FAQs page. 

Book Discussion Guides for Intermediate nominees

Request Nutmeg Book Sets from the CT State Library here

Padlet for Intermediate nominees (Thank you Pia Ledina)