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Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award Names 2014 Winner, And New Nominees

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"Wonder" is the winner of the 2014 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award

Each school year Vermont middle grade students read the books nominated for the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, then vote for a winner. Earlier this month, the DCF committee tallied the students' votes and announced the winner:  Wonder by R.J. Palacio.

In this school year’s final installment of our series Dorothy’s List, VPR’s Amy Noyes takes a look at the novel Wonder, and introduces us to some of the nominees for next year’s book award.

2014-15 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Master List of Award Nominees

The nominees listed below are arranged by grade level; the DCF program of the Vermont Department of Libraries says the grade should be regarded more as maturity levels than reading levels.

Grade 4 and up

Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo
The Adventures of a South Pole Pig by Chris Kurtz
The Mouse With the Question Mark Tail by Richard Peck
The Center of Everything by Linda Urban (Vermont author)
Frogged by Vivian Vande Velde

Grade 5 and up

Doll Bones by Holly Black
Better Nate Than Ever by Tim Federle
Salt: A Story of Friendship in a Time of War by Helen Frost
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein
The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius by Jan Greenberg & Sandra Jordan
33 Minutes...Until Morgan Sturtz Kicks My Butt by Todd Hasak-Lowy
The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel by Deborah Hopkinson
The Thing About Luck by Cynthia Kadohata
Hiding Out at the Pancake Palace by Nan Marino
Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas by Ottaviani, Jim
Prisoner 88 by Leah Pileggi
One Came Home by Amy Timberlake
Paperboy by Vince Vawter
P.S. Be Eleven by Rita Williams-Garcia

Grade 6 and up

Saturday Boy by David Fleming
Zebra Forest by Adina Rishe Gewirtz
Twerp by Mark Goldblatt
Sure Signs of Crazy by Karen Harrington
The Vine Basket by Josanne LaValley
Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson
Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Courage Has No Color by Tanya Lee Stone (Vermont author)
“The President Has Been Shot!”: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy by James Swanson

Grade 7 and up

Far Far Away by Tom McNeal
Golden Boy by Tara Sullivan

Amy is an award winning journalist who has worked in print and radio in Vermont since 1991. Her first job in professional radio was at WVMX in Stowe, where she worked as News Director and co-host of The Morning Show. She was a VPR contributor from 2006 to 2020.
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