Grand Canyon Reader Award Spring 2017 Last Years

Grand Canyon Reader Award Spring 2017

Last Year’s Winner Prisoner B-3087 • by Alan Gratz JAE 8/22/14 Rev. 1

Some Previous Winners • Drama by Raina Telgemeier (2015) • 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)

Voting Requirements • You must read at least THREE books to vote • Votes are due by the end of March • Listen for announcements when voting begins

Mark of the Thief • Author: Jennifer Nielsen • Fantasy • When Nic, a slave in the mines outside of Rome, is forced to enter a sealed cavern containing lost treasures of Julius Caesar, he finds himself in possession of an ancient amulet filled with magic once reserved for the Gods, and becomes the center of a conspiracy to overthrow the emperor and destroy Rome. • Author of The False Prince – winner of the 2014 Grand Canyon Reader Award • http: //safeshare. tv/x/ss 57 bc 89601 d 7 d 2

Magic Marks the Spot • Author: Caroline Carlson • Fantasy • When Hilary Westfield escapes Miss Pim's finishing school to join a misfit pirate crew, she embarks on an unexpectedly magical swashbuckling, plank-walking, seafaring journey. • http: //safeshare. tv/x/ss 57 bca 58 e 0 ac 1 b

Echo • Author: Pam Munoz Ryan • Historical Fiction • Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica. • Newbery Honor Award • http: //safeshare. tv/x/2 o. BEMg. JOKPU

Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place • Author: Julie Berry • Mystery • Seven very proper Victorian young ladies conspire to hide a murder from the authorities at their boarding school. • http: //safeshare. tv/x/ss 57 bc 8 b 0 edbb 90

Game Seven • Author: Paul Volponi • Realistic Fiction • A sixteen-year-old shortstop in Cuba who dreams of playing with the pros must choose between his country and his father who defected to the U. S. • (No Trailer)

The Iron Trial • Author: Holly Black and Cassandra Clare • Fantasy • Warned away from magic all of his life, Callum endeavors to fail the trials that would admit him to the Magisterium only to be drawn into its ranks against his will and forced to confront dark elements from his past. • http: //safeshare. tv/x/ss 57 bca 3 bc 2 ea 73

The Night Gardener • Author: Jonathan Auxier • Fantasy • Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house. • http: //safeshare. tv/x/ss 57 bca 626294 b 1

The Paper Cowboy • Author: Kristin Levine • Historical Fiction • In a small town near Chicago in 1953, twelve-year-old Tommy faces escalating problems at home, among his Catholic school friends, and with the threat of a communist living nearby, but taking over his hospitalized sister's paper route introduces him to neighbors who he comes to rely on for help. • http: //safeshare. tv/x/ss 57 bca 75062 c 58

Sidekicked • Author: John David Anderson • Fantasy Fiction • Thirteen-year-old superhero sidekick-in-training Drew "The Sensationalist" Bean must overcome his not-sosuperpowers and become the hero everyone needs when a supervillain, The Dealer, returns to Justicia. • http: //safeshare. tv/x/9 Lh. PIiv. ZLt. U

The Forbidden Stone • Author: Tony Abbott • Fantasy • Wade, Lily, Darrell, and Becca fly from Texas to Germany for the funeral of an old family friend. But instead of just paying their respects, they wind up on a dangerous, mind-blowing quest to unlock an ancient, guarded secret that could destroy the fate of the world. • http: //safeshare. tv/x/ss 57 bc 8 e 44456 e 3