How the Grand Canyon Award books work:
- We give you the top ten books from recent years.
- You read the books.
- When voting time comes around, you vote for the best book out of the ten.
- You sit back and relax, having enjoyed some really good books while you wait for our next list.
Check out the main site here.
I’m on the awards committee, so students of mine should recognize quite a number of these books:
The Brooklyn Nine by Alan Gratz (2009)
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson (2008)
Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban (2007)
Evolution, Me and Other Freaks of Nature by Robin Brande (2007)
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (2008)
H. I. V. E: The Higher Institute of Villainous Education by Mark Walden (2006)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2008)
London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd (2007)
My Fair Godmother by Janette Rallison (2009)
Palace of Mirrors by Margaret Peterson Haddix (2008)
Sweet! Now I have cool stuff to read- no more school for me!