Grand Canyon Reader AwardNomineeNonfiction

Given by Arizona Library Association

Other Names: Arizona Young Readers Award
198 Works 75,272 Books 4,143 Reviews 4.1
RULES AND DESCRIPTION OF THE AWARD

General Description

1. The purpose of the Grand Canyon Reader Award is:

to encourage Arizona young readers to become better acquainted with recently published show more quality books.

to honor favorite books and authors.

2. The award is given annually in the following categories:

Picture Books

Intermediate Books

Tween Books

Non-fiction Books

3. The winning book in each category is determined by the vote of young readers in Arizona.

4. An award is given in each category, including the illustrator for the winning picture book.

5. The awards are presented at the annual AzLA conference.

6. The Grand Canyon Reader Award is sponsored by the Arizona Library Association.

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Stages:
All, Winner (130), Recommended (175), Nominee (1,486)
Categories:
All, Nonfiction (198)
Years:
All, 2024 (10), 2023 (10), 2022 (10), 2021 (10), 2020 (10), 2019 (10), 2018 (10), 2017 (10), 2016 (10), 2015 (10), 2014 (10), 2013 (10), 2012 (10), 2011 (10), 2010 (10), 2009 (10), 2008 (10), 2007 (10), 2006 (8), 2025 (10)

Nominee 198

WorkYear
Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond2025
Nellie vs. Elizabeth: Two Daredevil Journalists' Breakneck Race around the World by Kate Hannigan2025
Dressing Up the Stars: The Story of Movie Costume Designer Edith Head by Jeanne Walker Harvey2025
A History of Underwear with Professor Chicken by Hannah Holt2025
How to Apologize by David LaRochelle2025
Blood! Not Just a Vampire Drink by Stacy McAnulty2025
Building an Orchestra of Hope: How Favio Chavez Taught Children to Make Music from Trash by Carmen Oliver2025
The Floating Field: How a Group of Thai Boys Built Their Own Soccer Field by Scott Riley2025
The Sweetest Scoop: Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Revolution by Lisa Robinson2025
Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion by Shannon Stocker2025
Sakamoto's Swim Club: How a Teacher Led an Unlikely Team to Victory by Julie Abery2024
Snooze-O-Rama: The Strange Ways That Animals Sleep by Maria Birmingham2024
Headstrong Hallie!: The story of Hallie Morse Daggett, the First Female "Fire Guard" by Aimée Bissonette2024
Pando: A Living Wonder of Trees by Kate Allen Fox2024
Playing at the Border: A Story of Yo-Yo Ma by Joanna Ho2024
The Water Lady: How Darlene Arviso Helps a Thirsty Navajo Nation by Alice B. McGinty2024
Ducks Overboard!: A True Story of Plastic in Our Oceans by Markus Motum2024
Nacho's Nachos: The Story Behind the World's Favorite Snack by Sandra Nickel2024
This Very Tree: A Story of 9/11, Resilience, and Regrowth by Sean Rubin2024
Happy Sloth Day! by April Pulley Sayre2024
Crossings: Extraordinary Structures for Extraordinary Animals by Katy S. Duffield2023
Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 by Helaine Becker2023
Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera by Candace Fleming2023
Mamie on the Mound: A Woman in Baseball's Negro Leagues by Leah Henderson2023
The Last Straw: Kids vs. Plastics by Susan Hood2023
Carter Reads the Newspaper by Deborah Hopkinson2023
The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read by Rita Lorraine Hubbard2023
Try It!: How Frieda Caplan Changed the Way We Eat by Mara Rockliff2023
111 Trees: How One Village Celebrates the Birth of Every Girl (CitizenKid) by Rina Singh2023
Dinosaur Lady: The Daring Discoveries of Mary Anning, the First Paleontologist (Women in Science Biographies, Fossil Books for Kids, Feminist Picture Books, Dinosaur Gifts for Kids) by Linda Skeers2023
Saving Fiona: The Story of the World's Most Famous Baby Hippo by Thane Maynard2022
Just Like Rube Goldberg: The Incredible True Story of the Man Behind the Machines by Sarah Aronson2022
Sisters and Champions: The True Story of Venus and Serena Williams by Howard Bryant2022
The Proper Way to Meet a Hedgehog and Other How-To Poems by Paul B. Janeczko2022
Homes in the Wild: Where Baby Animals and Their Parents Live by Lita Judge2022
The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World's Coral Reefs: The Story of Ken Nedimyer and the Coral Restoration Foundation (Environmental Science for ... and You for Kids, Conservation for Kids) by Kate Messner2022
Let 'Er Buck!: George Fletcher, the People's Champion by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson2022
Winged Wonders: Solving the Monarch Migration Mystery by Meeg Pincus2022
Magic Ramen: The Story of Momofuku Ando by Andrea Wang2022
Thurgood by Jonah Winter2022
The Crayon Man: The True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons by Natascha Biebow2021
Muhammad Ali: A Champion Is Born by Gene Barretta2021
She Persisted Around the World: 13 Women Who Changed History by Chelsea Clinton2021
The Elephant by Jenni Desmond2021
Her Right Foot by Dave Eggers2021
The Shape of the World: A Portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright by K. L. Going2021
Flying Frogs and Walking Fish: Leaping Lemurs, Tumbling Toads, Jet-Propelled Jellyfish, and More Surprising Ways That Animals Move by Steve Jenkins2021
The Girl Who Named Pluto: The Story of Venetia Burney by Alice B. McGinty2021
Otis and Will Discover the Deep: The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere by Barb Rosenstock2021
Malala's Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai2021
Girl Running: Bobbi Gibb and the Boston Marathon by Annette Bay Pimentel2020
Glow: Animals with Their Own Night-Lights by W. H. Beck2020
Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker's Story by Joseph Bruchac2020
Pocket Full of Colors: The Magical World of Mary Blair, Disney Artist Extraordinaire by Amy Guglielmo2020
Crawly School for Bugs: Poems to Drive You Buggy by David Harrison2020
A Leap for Legadema: The True Story of a Little Leopard in a Big World by Beverly Joubert2020
Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist (Women in Science Books, Marine Biology for Kids, Shark Gifts) by Jess Keating2020
John Deere, That's Who! by Tracy Nelson Maurer2020
The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin by Julia Finley Mosca2020
Imagine That!: How Dr. Seuss Wrote The Cat in the Hat by Judy Sierra2020
If Sharks Disappeared by Lily Williams2019
Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton2019
Penguin Day by Nic Bishop2019
Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille by Jen Bryant2019
Grand Canyon by Jason Chin2019
The Marvelous Thing That Came from a Spring: The Accidental Invention of the Toy That Swept the Nation by Gilbert Ford2019
Plants Can't Sit Still by Rebecca E. Hirsch2019
Becoming Bach by Tom Leonard2019
Hippos are Huge! by Jonathan London2019
Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code by Laurie Wallmark2019
Winnie: The True Story of the Bear Who Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh by Sally M. Walker2018
Trombone Shorty by Trombone Shorty2018
The Cart That Carried Martin by Eve Bunting2018
I See a Pattern Here by Bruce Goldstone2018
Miracle Mud: Lena Blackburne and the Secret Mud That Changed Baseball by David A. Kelly2018
Otters Love to Play (Read and Wonder) by Jonathan London2018
Pitter and Patter by Martha Sullivan2018
Goal! by Sean Taylor2018
Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah by Laurie Ann Thompson2018
Mama Built a Little Nest by Jennifer Ward2018
Stubby the Dog Soldier: World War I Hero (Animal Heroes) by Blake Hoena2017
Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla by Katherine Applegate2017
Aaron and Alexander: The Most Famous Duel in American History by Don Brown2017
Gravity by Jason Chin2017
Creature Features: Twenty-Five Animals Explain Why They Look the Way They Do by Steve Jenkins2017
Boy, Were We Wrong About the Weather! by Kathleen V. Kudlinski2017
A Boy and a Jaguar by Alan Rabinowitz2017
Eat Like a Bear by April Pulley Sayre2017
Friends for Freedom: The Story of Susan B. Anthony & Frederick Douglass by Suzanne Slade2017
No Monkeys, No Chocolate by Melissa Stewart2017
A Little Book of Sloth by Lucy Cooke2016
Noah Webster and His Words by Jeri Chase Ferris2016
That's a Possibility!: A Book About What Might Happen by Bruce Goldstone2016
Frog Song by Brenda Z. Guiberson2016
Your Life as a Pioneer on the Oregon Trail (The Way It Was) by Jessica Gunderson2016
The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos by Deborah Heiligman2016
My First Day by Steve Jenkins2016
And the Winner Is ...: Amazing Animal Athletes by Etta Kaner2016
Rotten Pumpkin by David M. Schwartz2016
Follow Follow: A Book of Reverso Poems by Marilyn Singer2016
Stay: The True Story of Ten Dogs by Michaela Muntean2015
America Is Under Attack: September 11, 2001: The Day the Towers Fell by Don Brown2015
George Bellows: Painter with a Punch! by Robert Burleigh2015
Water Sings Blue by Kate Coombs2015
First Mothers by Beverly Gherman2015
D is for Desert: A World Deserts Alphabet (Science Alphabet) by Barbara Gowan2015
The Beetle Book by Steve Jenkins2015
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot by Sy Montgomery2015
The Mighty Mars Rovers: The Incredible Adventures of Spirit and Opportunity by Elizabeth Rusch2015
The House That George Built by Suzanne Slade2015
Snakes by Nic Bishop2014
A Rock Is Lively (Family Treasure Nature Encylopedias) by Dianna Hutts Aston2014
I Feel Better with a Frog in My Throat: History's Strangest Cures by Carlyn Beccia2014
Hanging Off Jefferson's Nose: Growing Up On Mount Rushmore by Tina Nichols Coury2014
Just a Second by Steve Jenkins2014
Peter Kent's City Across Time by Peter Kent2014
Life-Size Zoo: From Tiny Rodents to Gigantic Elephants, An Actual-Size Animal Encyclopedia by Teruyuki Komiya2014
Me . . . Jane by Patrick McDonnell2014
Jean Laffite: The Pirate Who Saved America by Susan Goldman Rubin2014
Where Else in the Wild? by David M. Schwartz2014
1+1=5: and Other Unlikely Additions by David LaRochelle2013
Lizards by Nic Bishop2013
Guinea Pigs Add Up by Margery Cuyler2013
Orangutans Are Ticklish: Fun Facts from an Animal Photographer by Jill Davis2013
This Tree Counts! by Alison Formento2013
Yucky Worms: Read and Wonder by Vivian French2013
It's Snowing! by Gail Gibbons2013
Meet the Howlers! by April Pulley Sayre2013
Someone Used My Toothbrush and Other Bathroom Poems by Carol Diggory Shields2013
Hot Diggity Dog: The History of the Hot Dog by Adrienne Sylver2013
2030: A Day in the Life of Tomorrow's Kids by Amy Zuckerman2012
Bubble Homes and Fish Farts by Fiona Bayrock2012
Mule Train Mail by Craig McFarland Brown2012
Lots of Spots by Lois Ehlert2012
Letters to a Soldier by David Falvey2012
Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 by Brian Floca2012
The Life and Times of Corn by Charles Micucci2012
Listen to the Wind: The Story of Dr. Greg & Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson2012
Button Up!: Wrinkled Rhymes by Alice Schertle2012
An Eye for Color: The Story of Josef Albers by Natasha Wing2012
Big Cats: Hunters of the Night (Animals After Dark) by Elaine Landau2011
The Black Book of Colors by Menena Cottin2011
Round Like a Ball by Lisa Campbell Ernst2011
Jackson and Bud's Bumpy Ride: America's First Cross-country Automobile Trip by Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff2011
Robots: From Everyday to Out of This World by Editors of YES Mag2011
Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman by Marc Tyler Nobleman2011
Guess What Is Growing Inside This Egg by Mia Posada2011
Trout Are Made of Trees by April Pulley Sayre2011
Looking Closely across the Desert by Frank Serafini2011
Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa by Jeanette Winter2011
Are You Quite Polite?: Silly Dilly Manners Songs by Alan Katz2010
Spiders by Nic Bishop2010
Dolley Madison Saves George Washington by Don Brown2010
Extreme Animals: The Toughest Creatures on Earth (Animal Science) by Nicola Davies2010
All Aboard! by Chris L. Demarest2010
Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella by Paul Fleischman2010
The Wolves Are Back by Jean Craighead George2010
Living Color by Steve Jenkins2010
First the Egg by Laura Vaccaro Seeger2010
Mammoths on the Move by Lisa Wheeler2010
Monkey Business by Wallace Edwards2009
Beachcombing: Exploring the Seashore by Jim Arnosky2009
An Egg is Quiet by Dianna Hutts Aston2009
Great Estimations by Bruce Goldstone2009
Theodore by Frank Keating2009
Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs! by Kathleen V. Kudlinski2009
Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons by Amy Krouse Rosenthal2009
Ant, Ant, Ant!: An Insect Chant (American City) by April Pulley Sayre2009
Built To Last by George Sullivan2009
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss2009
Aliens Are Coming!: The True Account Of The 1938 War Of The Worlds Radio Broadcast by Meghan McCarthy2008
Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin by Gene Barretta2008
How Much Can a Bare Bear Bear? by Brian P. Cleary2008
Chameleon, Chameleon by Joy Cowley2008
Walk On!: A Guide for Babies of All Ages by Marla Frazee2008
Fast Food by Saxton Freymann2008
Desert Digits: An Arizona Number Book by Barbara Gowan2008
Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship by Isabella Hatkoff2008
Move! by Steve Jenkins2008
Through Georgia's Eyes by Rachel Victoria Rodriguez2008
Geogra-fleas!: Riddles All over the Map by Joan Holub2007
George Washington's Teeth by Deborah Chandra2007
I Face the Wind by Vicki Cobb2007
My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by Christine King Farris2007
Tutankhamun: The Boy King (Kids Who Ruled) by Jackie Gaff2007
Fields of Fury: The American Civil War by James M. McPherson2007
Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone by Cindy Neuschwander2007
What's the Matter in Mr. Whiskers' Room? by Michael Elsohn Ross2007
So You Want to Be an Inventor? by Judith St. George2007
Dirt by Steve Tomecek2007
Actual Size by Steve Jenkins2006
My Light by Molly Bang2006
A is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing American Women by Lynne Cheney2006
Caves: Mysteries Beneath Our Feet (Earth Works) by David L. Harrison2006
What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins2006
Eureka!: Great Inventions and How They Happened by Richard Platt2006
The Complete Book of the Night by Sally Tagholm2006
The Grapes of Math: Mind-Stretching Math Riddles by Greg Tang2006

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