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On a travelling book tour
Each year kids in Vermont, grades 4 to 8, are encouraged to read books from a list of 30 titles. In April, kids throughout Vermont vote on their favorite title, & the book that receives the most votes is the winner of the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award. Here follows the list for 2007/08. Read some or read them all. Post your thoughts here!
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DCF List 2007-2008
- Adventures of Marco Polo, The
- Alabama Moon
- All of the Above
- Alphabet of Dreams
- Black Duck
- Bread and Roses, Too
- Case of the Missing Marquess, The
- Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen, The
- Counting on Grace
- Crossing the Wire
- Dream-Maker's Magic, The
- Drowned Maiden's Hair, A
- Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini
- Firegirl
- Gemini Summer
- Gossamer
- Hattie Big Sky
- Higher Power of Lucky, The
- Keturah and Lord Death
- King of Attolia, The
- Listen!
- Odd Man Out
- One-Handed Catch
- Owen & Mzee
- Phineas L. MacGuire...Erupts
- Rules
- Small White Scar, A
- Story of Salt, The
- Weedflower
- White Elephant, The
Labels
- autism (1)
- biographies (2)
- Canadian authors (3)
- contemporary fiction (8)
- criminal activity (1)
- disabilities (4)
- dog stories (2)
- Down syndrome (1)
- fantasy (4)
- historical fiction (9)
- humorous stories (2)
- magic (1)
- multicultural fiction (4)
- mysteries (5)
- nonfiction (2)
- orphan stories (3)
- pioneer fiction (1)
- romance (1)
- siblings (3)
- survival stories (2)
- suspense (1)
- Vermont fiction (2)
- World War II fiction (2)
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
On a travelling book tour
Who is Dorothy Canfield Fisher?
Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958) was a very busy author who published a lot of books for adults and children from the early 1900s through the 1950s. She lived in Vermont but her books were popular worldwide!
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- Counting on Grace, by Elizabeth Winthrop
- The King of Attolia, by Megan Whalen Turner
- Listen, by Stephanie Tolan
- The Case of the Missing Marquess, by Nancy Springer
- The Dream-Maker's Magic, by Sharon Shinn
- All of the Above, by Shelley Pearsall
- Bread and Roses, Too, by Katherine Paterson
- A Small White Scar, by K. A. Nuzum
- Rules, by Cynthia Lord
- Black Duck, by Janet Taylor Lisle
- Gemini Summer, by Iain Lawrence
- Alabama Moon, by Watt Key
- Weedflower, by Cynthia Kadohata
- Crossing the Wire, by Will Hobbs
- Owen & Mzee, by Isabella Hatkoff
- The Adventures of Marco Polo, by Russell Freedman
- Alphabet of Dreams, by Susan Fletcher
- The White Elephant, by Sid Fleischman
- Escape!: The Story of the Great Houdini, by Sid Fl...
- Odd Man Out, by Sarah Ellis
- Phineas L. MacGuire...Erupts!, by Frances O'Roark ...
- One-Handed Catch, by Mary Jane Auch
- The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen, by M.T. Anderson
- Firegirl, by Tony Abbott
- The Story of Salt, by Mark Kurlansky
- Hattie Big Sky, by Kirby Larson
- A Drowned Maiden's Hair, by Laura Amy Schlitz
- The Higher Power of Lucky, by Susan Patron
- Gossamer, by Lois Lowry
- Keturah and Lord Death, by Martine Leavitt
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10 comments:
This was an interesting story of how a diverse group of people can work together to accomplish a task.
This book is one of the best I've read so far. Each of the characters were real to life and diverse. I like the way their personalities grew with the project.
this book really came to life for me. everything seemed so real. i love the way they each change with the growth of the project!!!!
Morgan from berlin said...
I thought this book was interesting because it was cool that they were trying to set a record. I thought the title was also cool. I wonder what the tetronadon would of looked like? It was a great book.
This is my favorite dcf book. The book was about a math project and I hate math but it still was my favorite dcf book. So even if you are like me and don't like math the book is still great.
This book was one that I could connect with. Great story and good writing. I also like the fact that this book was based on something that did happen.
I greatly enjoyed this book. What I enjoyed most was how the author intergrated, and wove toghether the different first hand accounts of the different characters. This book, like many of the DCF books, was a wonderful story that shows how different individuals with different beliefs and stories, can come tothether and do amazing things, when determined.
I thought this was a good book to represent how students with a wide variety of thinkings came together to build a tetrahedron.My class really liked the book, so at the end of the book we started to make our own tetrahedron.We only got to level 5 though.The one thing
I forgot is the name of the school they're at.Does n e 1 know?All children and adults should read this book.
Loved this book! Loved how the kids came together to work towards a common goal.
It seems like almost everybody thought that there was growth in each of the characters, and I agree. James was possibly the most apparent change, but some of them were larger, like Sherice. I felt like she was finally comfortable around people, and not upsetting them with her controversial comments. When I say controversial, I mean how she said things that disturbed others. Sherice was finally a part of something, and she discovered friendship and what it's like to be in a "family". I loved the way Shelley Pearshall gave us insight into the perspective of each one of these charcters, for it really made this book "different" in the good way. Overall, I really liked this book, and although I don't think that I will vote for it to receive the DCF award, I can see why it deserves a place here.
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