2017 Grand Canyon Reader Award Nominees
Picture Books Circle, Square, Moose by Kelly L. Bingham, 2014 Flight School by Lita Judge, 2014 Goodnight Already! by Jory John, 2015 I Don’t Want to be a Frog by Dev Petty, 2015 If You Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School, Don’t! by Elise Parsley, 2015 Juna’s Jar by Jane Bahk, 2015 Monsters Love Underpants by Claire Freedman, 2015 Rodeo Red by Maripat Perkins, 2015 There’s a Lion in My Cornflakes by Michelle Robinson, 2015 Wild About Us! By Karen Beaumont, 2015 Non-Fiction Aaron and Alexander: The Most Famous Duel in American History by Don Brown, 2015 A Boy and a Jaguar by Alan Rabinowitz, 2014 Boy, Were We Wrong About the Weather! By Kathleen Kudlinski, 2015 Creature Features: 25 Animals Explain Why They Look the Way They Do by Steve Jenkins, 2014 Eat Like a Bear by April Pulley Sayre, 2013 Friends For Freedom: The Story of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass by Suzanne Slade, 2014 Gravity by Jason Chin, 2014 Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla by Katherine Applegate, 2014 No Monkeys, No Chocolate by Melissa Stewart, 2013 Stubby the Dog Soldier: World War I Hero by B.A. Hoena, 2015 Intermediate Blast Off! By Nate Ball, 2014 The Hypnotists by Gordon Korman, 2013 Kinda Like Brothers by Coe Booth, 2014 Mountain Dog by Margarita Engle, 2013 Night Sky Dragons, by Mal Peet, 2014 Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin, 2014 Rump: The True Story Of Rumpelstiltskin by Liesl Shurtliff, 2013 The Sasquatch Escape by Suzanne Selfors, 2013 The School Is Alive! By Jack Chabert, 2014 Space Taxi: Archie Takes Flight by Wendy Mass, 2014
Tween Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan, 2015 The Forbidden Stone by Tony Abbott, 2014 Game Seven by Paul Volponi, 2015 The Iron Trial by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare, 2014 Magic Marks the Spot by Caroline Carlson, 2013 Mark of the Thief by Jennifer A. Nielsen, 2015 The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier, 2014 The Paper Cowboy by Kristin Levine, 2014 The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry, 2014 Sidekicked by John David Anderson, 2013 Teen All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, 2014 Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin, 2014 The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds, 2015 Conversion by Katherine Howe, 2014 The Doubt Factory by Paolo Bacigalupi, 2014 The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd, 2014 Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard, 2015 Ripper by Stefan Petrucha, 2012 Skink: No Surrender by Carl Hiaasen, 2014 Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina, 2013 Tween Non-Fiction (non-voting) Bombs Over Bikini: The World’s First Nuclear Disaster by Connie Goldsmith, 2014 The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Levyson, 2013 Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson, 2014 Extraordinary People: a Semi-Comprehensive Guide to Some of the World’s Most Fascinating Individuals by Michael Hearts, 2015 Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle For Civil Rights in Mississippi by Susan Goldman Rubin, 2014 I am Malala (Young Reader Edition) by Malala Yousafazi, 2015 Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods by Rick Riordan, 2014 The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and The Fight For Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin, 2014 Rocket Science For the Rest of Us by Ben Gilliland, 2015 Unbroken: an Olympian’s Journey From Airman to Castaway to Captive by Laura Hillenbrand, 2014
