Grand Canyon Reader Award - Teen

Awards List

2016

The Paladin Prophecy
(Nominee)
Mark Frost

Just One Day
(Nominee)
Gayle Forman

The Beginning of Everything
(Nominee)
Robyn Schneider

Fangirl
(Nominee)
Rainbow Rowell

Muckers
(Nominee)
Sandra Neil Wallace

Sick
(Nominee)
Tom Leveen

The Living
(Nominee)
Matt De La Pena

The Impossible Knife of Memory
(Nominee)
Laurie Halse Anderson

The Sound of Letting Go
(Nominee)
Stasia Ward Kehoe

2015

Scarlet
(Winner)
Marissa Meyer

Sound of Waves
(Notable)
Yukio Mishima

The Buddha in the Attic
(Recommended)
Julie Otsuka

Croak
(Recommended)
Gina Damico

The Final Four
(Recommended)
Paul Volponi

Code Name Verity
(Recommended)
Elizabeth Wein

The Blink Once
(Recommended)
Cylin Busby

Every Day
(Recommended)
David Levithan

The Raven Boys
(Recommended)
Maggie Stiefvater

Scarlet
(Recommended)
Marissa Meyer

2014

Divergent
(Winner)
Veronica Roth

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
(Recommended)
Jamie Ford

Sisters Red
(Recommended)
Jackson Pearce

Scrawl
(Recommended)
Mark Shulman

The Things a Brother Knows
(Recommended)
Dana Reinhardt

Hold Me Closer, Necromancer
(Recommended)
Lish McBride

The Big Crunch
(Recommended)
Pete Hautman

What Happened to Goodbye
(Recommended)
Sarah Dessen

Beauty Queens
(Recommended)
Libba Bray

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
(Recommended)
Ransom Riggs

Drink, Slay, Love
(Recommended)
Sarah Beth Durst

Ashfall
(Recommended)
Mike Mullin

The Scorpio Races
(Recommended)
Maggie Stiefvater

Cinder
(Recommended)
Marissa Meyer

The Fault in Our Stars
(Recommended)
John Green

2013

Zoe's Tale
(Recommended)
John Scalzi

Marcelo in the Real World
(Recommended)
Francisco X. Stork

After
(Recommended)
Amy Efaw

Boneshaker
(Recommended)
Cherie Priest

Ostrich Boys
(Recommended)
Keith Gray

Bruiser
(Recommended)
Neal Shusterman

I Am Number Four
(Recommended)
Pittacus Lore

The Clockwork Angel
(Recommended)
Cassandra Clare

Annexed
(Recommended)
Sharon Dogar

Revolution
(Recommended)
Jennifer Donnelly

The Lost Gate
(Recommended)
Orson Scott Card

Between Shades of Gray // Ashes in the Snow
(Recommended)
Ruta Sepetys

The Berlin Boxing Club
(Recommended)
Robert Sharenow

2012

Hero
(Nominee)
Perry Moore

Wake
(Nominee)
Lisa McMann

The Art of Racing in the Rain
(Nominee)
Garth Stein

The Heretic's Daughter
(Nominee)
Kathleen Kent

Impossible
(Nominee)
Nancy Werlin

Far from Wonder
(Nominee)
Frank Beddor

If I Stay
(Nominee)
Gayle Forman

The Demon's Lexicon
(Nominee)
Sarah Rees Brennan

Shiver
(Nominee)
Maggie Stiefvater

Pop
(Nominee)
Gordon Korman

Purple Heart
(Nominee)
Patricia McCormick

Going Bovine
(Nominee)
Libba Bray

Leviathan
(Nominee)
Scott Westerfeld

The Life of Glass
(Nominee)
Jillian Cantor

Foiled
(Nominee)
Jane Yolen

Will Grayson, Will Grayson
(Nominee)
John Green; David Levithan

2011

The Hunger Games
(Winner)
Suzanne Collins

World War Z
(Recommended)
Max Brooks

I Am Scout
(Recommended)
Charles J. Shields

Sunrise Over Fallujah
(Recommended)
Walter Dean Myers

Little Brother
(Recommended)
Cory Doctorow

Nation
(Recommended)
Terry Pratchett

Graceling
(Recommended)
Kristin Cashore

Paper Towns
(Recommended)
John Green

Wintergirls
(Recommended)
Laurie Halse Anderson

2010

Twisted
(Recommended)
Laurie Halse Anderson

City of Bones
(Recommended)
Cassandra Clare

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
(Recommended)
Sherman Alexie

Thirteen Reasons Why
(Recommended)
Jay Asher

Unwind
(Recommended)
Neal Shusterman

Tamar
(Recommended)
Mal Peet

2009

Crackback
(Nominee)
John Coy

Just Listen
(Nominee)
Sarah Dessen

Dairy Queen
(Nominee)
Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Wait for Me
(Nominee)
An Na

American Born Chinese
(Nominee)
Gene Luen Yang

An Abundance of Katherines
(Nominee)
John Green

Inexcusable
(Nominee)
Chris Lynch

Impulse
(Nominee)
Ellen Hopkins

2008

Twilight
(Winner)
Stephenie Meyer

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
(Nominee)
Mark Haddon

The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
(Nominee)
Carolyn Mackler

Godless
(Nominee)
Pete Hautman
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

Jazz ABZ.
(Nominee)
Wynton Marsalis

The Perfect Shot
(Nominee)
Elaine Marie Alphin

2007

The Battle of Jericho
(Nominee)
Sharon M. Draper
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

Airborn
(Nominee)
Kenneth Oppel

2006

Eragon
(Winner)
Christopher Paolini

Flipped
(Nominee)
Wendelin Van Draanen

The City of Ember
(Nominee)
Jeanne Duprau

Pirates!
(Nominee)
Celia Rees

2005

House of the Scorpion
(Winner)
Nancy Farmer

2003

Stargirl
(Winner)
Jerry Spinelli

2002

Bud, Not Buddy
(Winner)
Christopher Paul Curtis

2000

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
(Winner)
J.K. Rowling

1999

Ella Enchanted
(Winner)
Gail Carson Levine

1997

The Name of the Game Was Murder
(Winner)
Joan Lowery Nixon

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