2016 - 2017 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Titles and More

Every year the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Committee chooses the best of children's literature as nominees for a vote for best book by Vermont students in Grades 4 - 8.  A brief biography of Dorothy Canfield Fisher can be found at the Vermont Hisorical Society at this link: https://vermonthistory.org/explorer/people-places/whos-who/vermont-women/dorothy-canfield-fisher

The Vermont Department of Libraries offers annotations or summaries of each book at this page:
http://libraries.vermont.gov/services/children_and_teens/book_awards/dcf

The 2016 -2017 list of Dorothy Canfield Fisher nominees are as follows:

2016-2017

Dorothy Canfield Fisher Nominees

Vermont's book award for children. 

This list include fiction and non-fiction books. 

Author	Title	Publisher	Grade
Barnett, Mac & Jory John	The Terrible Two	Amulet	4 up
Beasley, Cassie	Circus Mirandus	Dial	4 up
Benjamin, Ali	The Thing about Jellyfish	Little, Brown	5 up
Bond, Rebecca	Escape from Baxters’ Barn	Harcourt Brace	4 up
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker	The War that Saved my Life	Dial	5 up
Brown, Don	Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans	Harcourt Brace	6 up
Chmakova, Svetlana	Awkward	Yen	5 up
Draper, Sharon	Stella by Starlight	Atheneum	5 up
Gannon, Nicholas	The Doldrums	Greenwillow	4 up
Gino, Alex	George (audiobook)	Scholastic	4 up
Graff, Lisa	Lost in the Sun	Philomel	5 up
Gruenbaum, Michael with Todd Hasak-Lowy	Somewhere There is Still a Sun	Aladdin	5 up
Hautala, Beth	Waiting for Unicorns	Philamel	5 up
Hilton, Marilyn	Full Cicada Moon	Dial	5 up
Hoose, Phillip	The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club	Farrar, Straus & Giroux	7 up
Jamieson, Victoria	Roller Girl	Dial	4 up
Jones, Kelly	Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer	Alfred A. Knopf	4 up
Kidd, Ronald	Night on Fire	Albert Whitman	5 up
Maberry, Jonathan	The Orphan Army (Nightsiders #1)	Simon & Schuster	5 up
Magoon, Kekla	Shadows of Sherwood	Bloomsbury	5 up
Nielsen, Jennifer A.	A Night Divided	Scholastic	5 up
Oppel, Kenneth	The Nest	Simon & Schuster	5 up
Pearsall, Shelley	The Seventh Most Important Thing	Alfred A. Knopf	5 up
Priest, Cherie	I am Princess X	Arthur A. Levine	7 up
Resau, Laura	The Lightning Queen	Scholastic	5 up
Ryan, Pam Munoz	Echo	Scholastic	5 up
Sands, Kevin	The Blackthorn Key	Aladdin	5 up
Stead, Rebecca	Goodbye Stranger	Wendy Lamb	6 up
Stevenson, Noelle	Nimona	Harper Teen	7 up
Wiechman, Kathy Cannon	Like a River	Calkins Creek	6 up