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All Aboard for Dreamland!
All Aboard for Dreamland! By: Melanie Harby
Illustrated by: Geraldo Valerio
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: June 3, 2008
Ages: 2 - 5
All aboard for Dreamland! Hear the whistle blow! All aboard for Dreamland! Hurry Up! Hop on! Let's go! Hop aboard for a topsy-turvy ride through Wiggletown, Giggletown, and all the drowsy towns on the way to sleep....
Going, Going, Gone!
Going, Going, Gone! And Other Silly Dilly Sports Songs By: Alan Katz
Illustrated by: David Catrow
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: February 24, 2009
Ages: 3 - 8
Calling all silly dilly fans! Get ready to take a giant time-out for laughs, 'cause the bestselling creators of Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs and Are You Quite Polite? Silly Dilly Manners Songs...

Teen

The Nature of Jade
The Nature of Jade By: Deb Caletti
This edition: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publication date: March 25, 2008
Ages: above 12
I am not my illness. "Girl with Anxiety," "Trauma of the Week" -- no. I hate stuff like that. Everyone, everyone has their issue. But the one thing my illness did make me realize is how necessary it is to ignore the dangers...
Other Formats: eBook
Unwind By: Neal Shusterman
This edition: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publication date: November 6, 2007
Ages: above 14
Connor's parents want to be rid of him because he's a troublemaker. Risa has no parents and is being unwound to cut orphanage costs. Lev's unwinding has been planned since his birth as part of his family's strict religion....
Other Formats: Trade Paperback, eBook
City of Bones (Part of Mortal Instruments, The) By: Cassandra Clare
This edition: Hardcover, 496 pages
Publication date: March 27, 2007
Ages: above 14
When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder—much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing...

Intermediate

Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam By: Cynthia Kadohata
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: February 6, 2007
Ages: above 10
CRACKER IS ONE OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY'S MOST VALUABLE WEAPONS: a German shepherd trained to sniff out bombs, traps, and the enemy. The fate of entire platoons rests on her keen sense of smell. She's a Big Deal, and she...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback, eBook

Tween

Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam By: Cynthia Kadohata
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: February 6, 2007
Ages: above 10
CRACKER IS ONE OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY'S MOST VALUABLE WEAPONS: a German shepherd trained to sniff out bombs, traps, and the enemy. The fate of entire platoons rests on her keen sense of smell. She's a Big Deal, and she...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback, eBook

2011 Grand Canyon Reader Award Nominees

Tween

Chains By: Laurie Halse Anderson
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: October 21, 2008
Ages: above 10
If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
Palace of Mirrors By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
This edition: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publication date: September 30, 2008
Ages: 10 - 14
Cecelia looks like a peasant girl and lives in a village so small that it's not even on the map. But she knows that secretly, she is the true princess, hidden away as a baby to be kept safe from the enemies of the kingdon. A...

2009-2010 Charlie May Simon Reading List

Edward's Eyes By: Patricia MacLachlan
This edition: Hardcover, 128 pages
Publication date: August 28, 2007
Ages: 8 - 12
Jake is a part of an extraordinary family. He has a life filled with art, music, and long summer nights on the Cape. He has hours and days and months of baseball. But, more than anything in this world, Jake knows he has...

Arizona Winners List

2010 Grand Canyon Reader Award

Nonfiction

Going, Going, Gone!
Going, Going, Gone! And Other Silly Dilly Sports Songs By: Alan Katz
Illustrated by: David Catrow
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: February 24, 2009
Ages: 3 - 8
Calling all silly dilly fans! Get ready to take a giant time-out for laughs, 'cause the bestselling creators of Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs and Are You Quite Polite? Silly Dilly Manners Songs...