Grand Canyon Reader Award
Spring 2015
Last Year’s Winners
• 1st The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen
• 2nd Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to Not Reading by Tom
Greenwald
• 3rd Mindblind by Jennifer Rozines Roy
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Some Previous Winners
• 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)
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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 in March
Students who vote for the winning book will
receive cool prizes
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Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip
• Author: Jordan Sonnenblick
• Realistic fiction
• After an injury ends former star pitcher Peter
Friedman's athletic dreams, he concentrates on
photography which leads him to a girlfriend, new
fame as a high school sports photographer, and a
deeper relationship with the beloved grandfather
who, when he realizes he is becoming senile, gives
Pete all of his professional camera gear.
• http://safeshare.tv/w/hjXYkTnEwl
Drama
• Author: Raina Telgemeier
• Graphic novel
• Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while
serving on the stage crew for a middle school
production of Moon over Mississippi as various
relationships start and end, and others never quite
get going.
• http://safeshare.tv/w/ykylGOgbEb
Etiquette and Espionage
• Author: Gail Carriger
• Fiction
• In an alternate England of 1851, spirited fourteenyear-old Sophronia is enrolled in a finishing school
where, she is surprised to learn, lessons include not
only the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but
also diversion, deceit, and espionage.
• Sequel: Curtsies & Conspiracies
• http://safeshare.tv/w/KKLowWDzdj
I Pledge Allegiance
• Author: Chris Lynch
• Historical fiction
• Best friends Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck, having been
either drafted or enlisted in the military during the
Vietnam War, pledge they will come home together,
and Morris, a sailor on the USS "Boston," relies on that
promise to stay strong while his courage and resolve
are tested under attack.
• First in a series
The Last Dragonslayer
• Author: Jasper Fforde
• Fantasy
• Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange runs an agency for
underemployed magicians in a world where magic is
fading away, but when visions of the death of the
world's last dragon begin, all signs point to Jennifer-and Big Magic
• Sequels: The Song of the Quarkbeast
The Eye of Zoltar
• http://safeshare.tv/w/JUxknibYLO
The Lions of Little Rock
• Author: Kristin Levine
• Historical fiction
• Twelve-year-old Marlee develops a strong friendship
with Liz, the new girl in school, but when Liz suddenly
stops attending school and Marlee hears a rumor that
her friend is actually an African American girl passing
herself off as white, the two young girls must decide
whether their friendship is worth taking on
integration and the dangers it could bring to their
families.
• http://safeshare.tv/w/FevlrBkPTL
The Running Dream
• Author: Wendelin Van Draanen
• Realistic fiction
• When a school bus accident leaves sixteen-year-old
Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a
prosthetic limb and her track team finds a wonderful way
to help rekindle her dream of running again.
• http://safeshare.tv/w/POSmxneAVM
Slayers
• Author: C. J. Hill
• Fantasy
• At a rustic summer camp, sixteen-year-old Tori, a
senator's daughter, learns that she is descended
from medieval dragon slayers, that dragons still
exist, and that she is expected to hone her special
abilities to join her fellow campers in battling the
beasts and the man who controls them.
• Sequel: Slayers: Friends and Traitors
• http://safeshare.tv/w/oyOyvCbOfO
Three Times Lucky
• Author: Sheila Turnage
• Mystery
• Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing,
North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her
best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac
Colonel, owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with
his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
• http://safeshare.tv/w/amXepWBWxZ
Unwanteds
• Author: Lisa McMann
• Fantasy
• In a society that purges thirteen-year-olds who are
creative, identical twins Aaron and Alex are separated,
one to attend University while the other, supposedly
Eliminated, finds himself in a wondrous place where
youths hone their abilities and learn magic.
• Sequels: Island of Silence
Island of Fire
• http://safeshare.tv/w/dxnpaNGLlc