# Arizona Grand Canyon Reader Award reading list

**27** books referenced by Arizona Grand Canyon Reader Award, a reading-program curriculum framework spanning applicable K-12 grade levels.

The Grand Canyon Reader Award is Arizona's statewide student-choice reading program, sponsored by the Arizona Library Association since 1977. Young readers across the Intermediate and Tween divisions read from annual nominee lists and vote for their favorite recently published titles. Its winners are read in Arizona classrooms and libraries statewide and span many of the most-loved middle-grade titles, from Holes, The Giver, and The Lightning Thief to Wonder, New Kid, Refugee, and Guts.

**Framework type:** reading-program
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/curriculum/arizona-grand-canyon-reader-award
**Primary source:** https://www.azla.org/page/GCRAaboutpage (www.azla.org/page/GCRAaboutpage)
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## Arizona Grand Canyon Reader Award reading list

- [Because of Mr. Terupt](https://readinglist.school/book/because-of-mr-terupt) by Rob Buyea _(Grades 3–5)_
- [Bud, Not Buddy](https://readinglist.school/book/bud-not-buddy) by Christopher Paul Curtis _(950L · Grades 4–7)_
- [Deep and Dark and Dangerous](https://readinglist.school/book/deep-and-dark-and-dangerous) by Mary Downing Hahn _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Drama](https://readinglist.school/book/drama) by Raina Telgemeier _(Grades 5–9)_
- [Echo](https://readinglist.school/book/echo) by Pam Muñoz Ryan _(680L · Grades 5–8)_
- [Ella Enchanted](https://readinglist.school/book/ella-enchanted) by Gail Carson Levine _(Grades 4–7)_
- [Eragon](https://readinglist.school/book/eragon) by Christopher Paolini _(Grades 6–9)_
- [Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library](https://readinglist.school/book/escape-from-mr-lemoncellos-library) by Chris Grabenstein _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Guts](https://readinglist.school/book/guts) by Raina Telgemeier _(Grades 4–8)_
- [Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone](https://readinglist.school/book/harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone) by J.K. Rowling _(880L · Grades 4–7)_
- [Holes](https://readinglist.school/book/holes) by Louis Sachar _(660L · Grades 4–7)_
- [Mick Harte Was Here](https://readinglist.school/book/mick-harte-was-here) by Barbara Park _(Grades 5–8)_
- [New Kid](https://readinglist.school/book/new-kid) by Jerry Craft _(Grades 4–8)_
- [Odder](https://readinglist.school/book/odder) by Katherine Applegate _(Grades 3–5)_
- [Orbiting Jupiter](https://readinglist.school/book/orbiting-jupiter) by Gary D. Schmidt _(Grades 7–10)_
- [Refugee](https://readinglist.school/book/refugee) by Alan Gratz _(800L · Grades 5–9)_
- [Shiloh](https://readinglist.school/book/shiloh) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor _(890L · Grades 3–6)_
- [Stargirl](https://readinglist.school/book/stargirl) by Jerry Spinelli _(Grades 6–9)_
- [Superfudge](https://readinglist.school/book/superfudge) by Judy Blume _(Grades 3–6)_
- [Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing](https://readinglist.school/book/tales-of-a-fourth-grade-nothing) by Judy Blume _(470L · Grades 2–5)_
- [The Giver](https://readinglist.school/book/the-giver) by Lois Lowry _(760L · Grades 6–8)_
- [The Hunger Games](https://readinglist.school/book/the-hunger-games) by Suzanne Collins _(810L · Grades 6–9)_
- [The Indian in the Cupboard](https://readinglist.school/book/the-indian-in-the-cupboard) by Lynne Reid Banks _(Grades 3–6)_
- [The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)](https://readinglist.school/book/the-lightning-thief) by Rick Riordan _(740L · Grades 4–7)_
- [The Maze Runner](https://readinglist.school/book/the-maze-runner) by James Dashner _(Grades 7–12)_
- [The Thief Lord](https://readinglist.school/book/the-thief-lord) by Cornelia Funke _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Wonder](https://readinglist.school/book/wonder) by R.J. Palacio _(790L · Grades 3–7)_

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