GRAND  CANYON  AWARD

Winners for 2008:

Intermediate Book: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane byKate DiCamillo.
Picture Book:  I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More by Karen Beaumont.
Non-Fiction Book:  Aliens Are Coming! The True Account of the 1938 War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast by Meghan McCarthy.
Tween Book: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan.

2009 Intermediate Books – All Sequoya students who read six or more of these books by March 20, 2009 will be able to vote for their favorites.  The book receiving most votes from Arizona readers will become the Grand Canyon Award winner of 2009.

 

* Blood on the River Jamestown, 1607

Elisa Carbone

5.3

* Clementine

Sara Pennypacker

4.5

* Counting on Grace

Elizabeth Winthrop

4.5

* Deep and Dark and Dangerous

Mary Downing Hahn

4.0

* The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Brian Selznick

5.1

* Lunch Money

Andrew Clements

5.2

* Phineas L. Macguire - Erupts

Frances O. Dowell

5.0

* The Sisters Grimm: Fairytale Detectives

Michael Buckley

5.2

* Yellow Star

Jennifer R. Roy

4.3

* Young Uncle Comes to Town

Vandana Singh

5.5