Grand Canyon Reader Award

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The Grand Canyon Reader Award (formerly the Arizona Young Reader Award) is a reader award program for students in Arizona. Students vote annually on their favorite book in the following categories: Picture Book, Non-Fiction, Intermediate and Teen. Beginning with the 2008 award the categories will be: Picture book, Non-Fiction, Intermediate, Tween and Teen (which will be a voting optional category).
Grand Canyon Reader Award Nominees for 2008

Non-Fiction Books:
∑ Aliens Are Coming ! the True Account of the 1938 War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast by Meghan McCarthy (2006)
∑ Chameleon, Chameleon by Joy Cowley (2005)
∑ Desert Digits: an Arizona Number Book by Barbara Gowan (2006)
∑ Fast Food by Saxton Freymann (2006)
∑ How Much Can a Bare Bear Bear?: What Are Homonyms and Homophones? By Brian P. Cleary (2006)
∑ Move! by Steve Jenkins (2006)
∑ Now and Ben: the Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin by Gene Barretta (2006)
∑ Owen and Mzee: the True Story of a Remarkable Friendship by Isabella Hatkoff (2006)
∑ Through Georgia’s Eyes by Rachel Rodriguez (2006)
∑ Walk On!: a Guide For Babies of All Ages by Marla Frazee (2006)

Picture Books:
∑ Carmine: a Little More Red by Melissa Sweet (2005)
∑ Dear Fish by Chris Gall (2006)
∑ Getting to Know Ruben Plotnick by Rosalyn Rosenbluth (2005)
∑ The Great Fuzz Frenzy by Janet Stevens (2005)
∑ Henry and the Buccaneer Bunnies by Carolyn Crimi (2005)
∑ I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More! by Karen Beaumont (2005)
∑ I Wanna Iguana by Karen Kaufman Orloff (2004)
∑ Thank You, Aunt Tallulah! by Carmela La Vigna Coyle (2006)
∑ That New Animal by Emily Jenkins (2005)
∑ The Three Silly Billies by Margie Palatini (2005)

Intermediate Books:
∑ Buttermilk Hill by Ruth White (2004)
∑ Chicken Boy by Frances Dowell (2005)
∑ Conch Bearer by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2003)
∑ Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles (2005)
∑ Gossamer by Lois Lowry (2006)
∑ Gregor the Overlander by Susan Collins (2003)
∑ The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo (2006)
∑ The Penderwicks : a Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall (2005)
∑ Shakespeare’s Secret by Elise Broarch (2005)
∑ Willow Run by Patricia Reilly Giff (2005)

Teen Books:
∑ Code Talker: a Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac (2005)
∑ Down the Rabbit Hole : an Echo Falls Mystery by Peter Abrahams (2005)
∑ Last Shot: a Final Four Mystery by John Feinstein (2005)
∑ The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (2005)
∑ The Misadventures of Maude March by Audrey Couloumbis (2005)
∑ Princess Academy by Shannon Hale (2005)
∑ The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan (2005)
∑ Sleeping Freshman Never Lie by David Lubar (2005)
∑ Uglies by Scott Westerfeld (2005)
∑ Vampire High by Douglas Rees (2003)

Teen Recommended (non-voting):
∑ The Blue Girl by Charles De Lint (2004)
∑ The Boy From the Basement by Susan Shaw (2004)
∑ The Burn Journals by Brent Runyon (2004)
∑ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon (2003)
∑ Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi by David Chotjewitz (2004)
∑ The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler (2003)
∑ Fade to Black by Alex Finn (2005)
∑ The Forbidden Schoolhouse: the True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students by Suzanne Jurmain (2005)
∑ Girl, 15 Charming But Insane by Sue Limb (2004)
∑ Godless by Pete Hautman (2004)
∑ A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray (2003)
∑ High Heat by Carl Deuker (2005)
∑ Invisible by Pete Hautman (2006)
∑ Jazz A-B-Z! by Wynton Marsalis (2005)
∑ The Key to the Golden Firebird: a Novel by Maureen Johnson (2004)
∑ Peeps: a Novel by Scott Westerfeld (2005)
∑ The Perfect Shot by Elaine Marie Alphin (2005)
∑ Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (2003)
∑ Sandpiper by Ellen Wittlinger (2005)
∑ Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (2005)
∑ A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson (2005)

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Exemplary blog sites:
http://www.grandviewlibrary.org/
http://cssresearch.blogspot.com/
http://ashworth.wordpress.com/2007/10/07/best-series-books-for-your-elementary-library/
http://ilearn.woodfordschools.org/shorowitz/

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