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Vermont's "Dorothy Canfield Fisher 2007 Book Award Nominations"

The Dorothy Canfield Children’s Book Award, first given in 1957, is co-sponsored by the Vermont State PTA and the Vermont Department of Libraries. These books, to be read during the school year, comprise the master list for the award to be made each spring. The master list titles have been selected to satisfy the reading interests of children in grades 4-8; The grades listed should be regarded more as maturity levels than reading levels.

(found at: http://homepage.mac.com/crowleyvt/dcfaward/dcf/index.html)
1. Down the Rabbit Hole : An Echo Falls Mystery (Echo Falls)
by Peter Abrahams
  
2. Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator (Gilda Joyce (Hardcover))
by Jennifer Allison
  
3. Spacer and Rat
by Margaret Bechard
  
4. The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
by Jeanne Birdsall
  
5. The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs
by Betty G. Birney
  
6. Second Sight
by Gary Blackwood
  
7. Shakespeare's Secret
by Elise Broach
  
8. Gregor And The Curse Of The Warmbloods (Underland Chronicles)
by Suzanne Collins
  
9. Bodies From the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii (Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 (Awards))
by James M. Deem
  
10. Chicken Boy
by Frances O'Roark Dowell
  
11. By These Ten Bones
by Clare B. Dunkle
  
12. The Giant Rat of Sumatra : or Pirates Galore
by Sid Fleischman
  
13. Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth (Boston Globe-Horn Book Honors (Awards))
by James Cross Giblin
  
14. Taking Wing
by Nancy Price Graff
  
15. Princess Academy
by Shannon Hale
  
16. Invisible  
17. Flush
by Carl Hiaasen
  
18. Day of Tears
by Julius Lester
  
19. Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie (Bccb Blue Ribbon Fiction Books (Awards))
by David Lubar
  
20. Hidden Child
by Isaac Millman
  
21. The Lioness and Her Knight (The Squire's Tales)
by Gerald Morris
  
22. The King of Mulberry Street
by Donna Jo Napoli
  
23. Criss Cross (Newbery Medal Book)
by Lynne Rae Perkins
  
24. The Artsy Smartsy Club
by Daniel Pinkwater
  
25. The Return of the Dragon (Dragon of Lonely Island)
by Rebecca Rupp
  
26. Eyes of the Emperor
by Graham Salisbury
  
27. Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems (Caldecott Honor Book, BCCB Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award)
by Joyce Sidman
  
28. Gorilla Doctors:Saving Endangered Great Apes (Scientists in the Field Series)
by Pamela S. Turner
  
29. Listening for Lions
by Gloria Whelan
  
30. A Thief in the House of Memory
by Tim Wynne-Jones
  
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Created by Lady S on Mar 24, 2006.