Grand Canyon Reader Award
Spring 2016
Last Year’s Winner
Drama
by Raina Telgemeier
JAE 8/22/14 Rev. 1
Some Previous Winners
• The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen (2014)
• The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan (2013)
• The Maze Runner by James Dashner (2012)
• Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2011)
• Schooled by Gordon Korman (2010)
• Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
(2009)
• The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (2008)
• Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman (2007)
• Eragon by Christopher Paolini (2006)
• The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (2005)
• The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke (2004)
JAE 8/20/12 Rev. 1
Voting Requirements
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You must read at least THREE books to vote
Votes are due by the end of March
Listen for announcements when voting begins
Students who vote for the winning book will
receive cool prizes
JAE 8/22/14 Rev. 1
Colin Fischer by Ashley Edward Miller
• Author: Jordan Sonnenblick
• Realistic fiction
• A boy with autism teams up with the high school
bully to get to the bottom of a cafeteria crime.
• http://safeshare.tv/w/duMFDyahIr
Dead City
• Author: James Ponti
• Horror
• Seventh-grader Molly has always been an outsider,
even at New York City's elite Metropolitan Institute
of Science and Technology, but that changes when
she is recruited to join the Omegas, a secret group
that polices and protects zombies.
• http://safeshare.tv/w/oGdLGCQzEP
Strike Three, You're Dead
• Author: Josh Berk
• Mystery
• Lenny Norbeck and his friends The Mikes set out to
investigate the suspicious death of a young pitcher at
a Phillies game.
• http://safeshare.tv/w/qpWNoUcjxK
Far Far Away
• Author: Tom McNeal
• Fantasy
• When Jeremy Johnson Johnson's strange ability to
speak to the ghost of Jacob Grimm draws the interest
of his classmate, Ginger Boltinghouse, the two
find themselves at the center of a series of
disappearances in their hometown.
• National Book Award Finalist
• http://safeshare.tv/w/OCdCsgLuzJ
One Came Home
• Author: Amy Timberlake
• Historical fiction
• In 1871 Wisconsin, thirteen-year0old Georgia sets out
to find her sister Agatha, presumed dead when
remains are found wearing the dress she was last
seen in, and before the end of the year gains fame as
a sharpshooter and foiler of counterfeiters.
• Newbery Honor Award
• http://safeshare.tv/w/BAgCLvmAkU
The Testing
• Author: Joelle Carbonneau
• Science Fiction
• Sixteen-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to
participate in The Testing to attend the University;
however, Cia is fearful when she figures out htat her
friends who do not pass The Testing are disappearing.
• http://safeshare.tv/w/tkHVfASrzT
Prisoner B-3087
• Author: Alan Gratz
• Historical Fiction
• Based on a true story
• Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book
relates his story of survival from the Nazi
occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven,
through a succession of concentration camps, to
the final liberation of Dachau.
• http://safeshare.tv/w/OQozICPmYO
The Mark of the Dragonfly
• Author: Jaleigh Johnson
• Fantasy
• Since her father's death in a factory in the Dragonfly
territories, thirteen-year-old Piper has eked out a living
as a scrapper in Merrow Kingdom, but the arrival of a
mysterious girl sends her on a dangerous journey to
distant lands.
• http://safeshare.tv/w/PkjTbSzkcj
Counting by 7's
• Author: Holly Goldberg Sloan
• Realistic Fiction
• Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow
Chance must figure out how to connect with other
people and find a surrogate family for herself after
her parents are killed in a car accident.
• http://safeshare.tv/w/CeXYvGvBFb
Tesla's Attic
• Author: Neal Shusterman
• Science Fiction
• With a plot combining science and the supernatural, four
kids are caught up in a dangerous plan concocted by the
eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla.
• http://safeshare.tv/w/utWPktzIdH