2017 - 2018 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Nominees

The next year's Dorothy Canfield Fisher, 2017 - 2018,  nominees have been chosen and are posted on the VT Department of Libraries website!  See the titles listed below with the author, title, publisher, and suggested grade level listed in that order.

Anderson, John David. Ms. Bixby’s Last Day. Walden Pond. Grade 5 up

Barnhill, Kelly. The Girl Who Drank the Moon. Algonquin. Grade 5 up

Bauer, Joan. Soar. Viking. Grade 5 up

Bayard, Louis. Lucky Strikes. Henry Holt. Grade 7 up

Brown, Peter. The Wild Robot. Little, Brown. Grade 4 up

Burg, Ann E. Unbound: A Novel in Verse. Scholastic. Grade 5 up

Cohen, Marina. The Inn Between. Roaring Brook. Grade 5 up

Crilley, Mark. The Drawing Lesson: A Graphic Novel That Teaches You How to Draw. Watson-Guptill. Grade 4 up

Davies, Jacqueline. Nothing but Trouble. Katherine Tegen. Grade5 up

Dumas, Firoozeh. It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel. Clarion. Grade 5 up

Gemeinhart, Dan. Some Kind of Courage. Scholastic. Grade 6 up

Gidwitz, Adam. The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog. Dutton. Grade 6 up

Gratz, Alan. Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II. Scholastic. Grade 6 up

Griffin, Paul. When Friendship Followed Me Home. Dial. Grade 6 up

Harrington, Karen. Mayday. Little, Brown. Grade 5 up

Hopkinson, Deborah. A Bandit’s Tale: The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket. Knopf. Grade 5 up

Kelly, Erin Entrada. The Land of Forgotten Girls. Greenwillow. Grade 5 up

LaFleur, Suzanne. Beautiful Blue World. Wendy Lamb. Grade 5 up

MacLachlan, Patricia. The Poet’s Dog. Katherine Tegen. Grade 4 up

Messner, Kate. The Seventh Wish. Bloomsbury. Grade 5 up

O’Connor, Barbara. Wish. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Grade 4 up

Olson, Tod. Lost in the Pacific, 1942: Not a Drop to Drink. Scholastic. Grade 5 up

Reynolds, Jason. Ghost. Athenaeum. Grade 5 up

Sherman, Delia. The Evil Wizard. Smallbone Candlewick. Grade 5 up

Sonnenblick, Jordan. Falling Over Sideways. Scholastic. Grade 6 up

Sullivan, Tara. The Bitter Side of Sweet. Putnam. Grade 7 up

Sweet, Melissa. Some Writer!: The Story of E.B. White. HMH. Grade 4 up

Weeks, Sarah & Gita Varadarajan. Save Me a Seat. Scholastic. Grade 4 up

Weiner, Jennifer. The Littlest Bigfoot. Aladdin. Grade 4 up

Wolk, Lauren. Wolf Hollow. Dutton. Grade 6 up