2014 - 2015 Dorothy Canfield Fisher List

The complete 2014 - 2015 DCF list with discussion questions can be found at Vermont's Department of Library website at this address, http://libraries.vermont.gov/libraries/cbec/dcf.  More information including good reads for students can be found at https://sites.google.com/a/cesuvt.org/dcf-award/.


Students in Grades 4 - 8 will be able to attend a "DCF" party this coming spring if they read a total of five books on the list and answer one discussion question (or curriculum connection) on Benson's DCF blog.  The blog address is http://bvsreads.blogspot.com/.

 This year's list of DCF books include:

Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award Master List 2014 – 2015

AUTHOR	TITLE	PUBLISHER	GRADE
Black, Holly	Doll Bones	Margaret K. McElderry	5 up
DiCamillo, Kate	Flora & Ulysses	Candlewick	4 up
Federle, Tim	Better Nate Than Ever	Simon & Schuster	5 up
Fleming, David	Saturday Boy	Viking Juvenile	6 up
Frost, Helen	Salt: A Story of Friendship in a Time of War	FSG	5 up
Gewirtz, Adina Rishe	Zebra Forest	Candlewick	6 up
Goldblatt, Mark	Twerp	Random House	6 up
Grabenstein, Chris	Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library	Random House	5 up
Greenberg, Jan & Sandra Jordan	The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius	Roaring Brook Press	5 up
Harrington, Karen	Sure Signs of Crazy	Little, Brown	6 up
Hasak-Lowy, Todd	33 Minutes...Until Morgan Sturtz Kicks My Butt	Aladdin	5 up
Hopkinson, Deborah	The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel	Knopf	5 up
Kadohata, Cynthia	The Thing About Luck	Atheneum	5 up
Kurtz, Chris	The Adventures of a South Pole Pig	Harcourt	4 up
LaValley, Josanne	The Vine Basket	Clarion Books	6 up
Leyson, Leon	Boy on the Wooden Box	Atheneum	6 up
Marino, Nan	Hiding Out at the Pancake Palace	Roaring Brook Press	5 up
McNeal, Tom	Far Far Away	Knopf	7 up
Ottaviani, Jim	Primates:The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas	First Second	5 up
Peck, Richard	The Mouse With the Question Mark Tail	Dial	4 up
Pileggi, Leah	Prisoner 88	Charlesbridge	5 up
Sloan, Holly Goldberg	Counting by 7s	Dial	6 up
Stone, Tanya Lee	Courage Has No Color	Candlewick	6 up
Sullivan, Tara	Golden Boy	Putnam Juvenile	7 up
Swanson, James	“The President Has Been Shot!”: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy	Scholastic	6 up
Timberlake, Amy	One Came Home	Knopf	5 up
Urban, Linda	The Center of Everything	HMH Books for Young Readers	4 up
Vande Velde, Vivian	Frogged	Harcourt	4 up
Vawter, Vince	Paperboy	Random House	5 up
Williams-Garcia, Rita	P.S. Be Eleven	Amistad/HarperCollins	5 up