Grand Canyon Reader Award Nominees for 2009

Non-Fiction Books:

  • Ant, Ant, Ant: An Insect Chant by April Pulley Sayre (2005)
  • Beachcombing: Exploring the Seashore by Jim Arnosky (2004)
  • Boy Were We Wrong About the Dinosaurs! By Kathleen Kudlinski (2005)
  • Built to Last: Building America’s Amazing Bridges, Dams, Tunnels and Skyscrapers by George Sullivan (2005)
  • Cookies: Bite-Size Lessons by Amy Krouse Rosenthal (2006)
  • Eat, Shoots, and Leaves: Why Commas Really Do Make a Difference by Lynne Truss (2006)
  • An Egg is Quiet by Diana Huts Aston (2006)
  • Great Estimations by Bruce Goldstone (2006)
  • Monkey Business by Wallace Edwards (2004)
  • Theodore by Frank Keating (2006)

Picture Books:

  • Bats at the Beach by Brian Lies (2006)
  • But Excuse Me That is My Book by Lauren Child (2005)
  • Chicks and Salsa by Aaron Reynolds (2005)
  • Duck at the Door by Jackie Urbanovic (2007)
  • Max’s Words by Kate Banks (2006)
  • The Perfect Nest by Catherine Friend (2007)
  • Phoebe and Chub by Matthew Henry Hall (2005)
  • The Secret Science Project That Almost Ate the School by Judy Sierra (2006)
  • Some Dog! By Mary Casanova (2007)
  • There Was a Coyote Who Swallowed a Flea by Jennifer Ward (2007)

Intermediate Books:

  • Blood on the River: James Town, 1607 by Elisa Carbone (2007)
  • Clementine by Sara Pennypacker (2006)
  • Counting on Grace by Elizabeth Winthrop (2006)
  • Deep and Dark and Dangerous: a Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn (2007)
  • The Invention of Hugo Cabret: a Novel in Words and Pictures by Brian Selznick (2007)
  • Lunch Money by Andrew Clements (2007)
  • Phineas L. Macguire—Erupts!: the First Experiment by Frances O’Roark Dowell (2006)
  • The Sisters Grimm. Book One, Fairy-Tale Detectives by Michael Buckley (2005)
  • Yellow Star by Jennifer Rozines Roy (2006)
  • Younguncle Comes to Town by Vandana Singh (2006)

Tween Books:

  • Bella at Midnight by Diane Stanley (2006)
  • Black Duck by Janet Taylor Lisle (2006)
  • Crossing the Wire by Will Hobbs (2006)
  • Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick (2004)
  • The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp by Richard Yancey (2005)
  • Eyes of the Emperor by Graham Salisbury (2005)
  • Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass (2006)
  • The Kingdom Keepers by Ridley Pearson (2005)
  • Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (2006)
  • Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083 by Andrea White (2005)

Teen Recommended (voting optional):

  • An Abundance of Katherines by John Green (2006)
  • American Born Chinese by Gene LuenYang (2006)
  • Breaking Up: A Fashion High Graphic Novel by Aimee Friedman (2007)
  • Chew on This: Everything You Didn’t Want to Know About Fast Food by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson (2006)
  • Clay by David Almond (2006)
  • Crackback by John Coy (2005)
  • Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2005)
  • Finding Lubchenko by Michael Simmons (2006)
  • Full Service by Will Weaver (2005)
  • Impulse by Ellen Hopkins (2007)
  • Inexcusable by Chris Lynch (2005)
  • Just Listen by Sarah Dessen (2006)
  • Rash by Pete Hautman (2006)
  • Runner by Carl Deuker (2005)
  • Saint Iggy by K.L. Going (2006)
  • Sold by Patricia McCormick (2006)
  • Wait For Me: A Novel by An Na (2006)
  • What Happened to Cass McBride? By Gail Giles (2006)
  • When I was a Soldier by Valerie Zenatti (2005)