TThe Dorothy Canfield Fisher Nominees

2011 - 2012

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The DCF winner for

2011

Read about Dwight who wears a finger puppet that gives advice….

And Tommy who asks…”Is Origami

Yoda real?”

Funny Cartoon Sketches

A mysterious box…

A journal and a treasure.

A dangerous stranger that

watches

And waits….

“Secrets are good only when you want to keep them.” ~ Zoomy

It is the 1870s…

A wealthy boy is kidnapped

by a murdering captain

Will he ever get home again?

Will he ever get home again?

After Jake’s mom ends up in the hospital, his gruff cigarette-smoking grandfather moves in and

Everything changes

A story of healing and love…..

Considered mentally handicapped…

10 year old Melody ….

speaks for the first time….

A young girl with spirit, endurance and wit!

Catlin discovers that the world is also full of color…

And

Can be both messy and beautiful!

Even though the world can sometimes be confusing…

Growing up with Asperger’s syndrome

Adventuresome

And Futuristic

And descend into their under water colony.

Meet teenagers Ty and Gemma

Outlaws

Was beloved Henry the Hippo really murdered?Teddy Fitzroy is determined to find out!

Funny

Captivating!

Interesting information about zoo animals….

Henry was the newest animal in the theme-park!

A racehorse called “Dream of night” and

An girl called Shiloh

Find friendship and healing after a troubled past

A book about discovering family

12 yr old “Turtle” moves to Key West, Florida

And finds love.

Adventure, humor

and historical

detail

Moxie Roosevelt Kipper

a boarding school

a music scholarship…And a new name MEG

(Mysterious Earth Goddess)

And a quest to find out who has stolen her missing journal!

Has Tom’s body been taken over by aliens...

Or is he just a misfit kid?

A plane crash….

Meet 12 year old Daralynn and discover her “living funeral”

Then Clem Monroe comes to town and spoils everything!

The need for connections beyond the grave….

A true story of friendship,Family and farewells….

1938

An autograph book of inscriptions, verses and drawings

During Hitler’s Germany

Touch Blue and your wish will come true.

A rainbow means change is coming…

Tess Brooks tries to save her special island schoolhouse from closing

Billie Harriman is out to find out who killed his father and why….

And discovers that he

has superpowers

ACTION PACKED!

The year is 1962

14 year old Sam finds herself in the deep south

Where the civil rights movement is underway

And violence is on her doorstep…

Life is all about skating

But in a world where the competition is fierce,

Out on the ice….

girls are not so nice!

Should Claire give up or follow her dreams?

Read about the life of the famous Henry Ford….

Fiercely independent..

A visionary with a dream

Wonderful full-page photos of a fascinating man and a fascinating time in American history!

Read about the largest most unusual parrot on earth!

Once upon a time there were millions!

Now the last 91 can only be found in New Zealand…

14 Humans with a passion for these creatures and determined to save them!

Owen JesterViola, Travis and Stumpy….

A crate that falls off a train in the dead of night

And a summer they will never forget

What if your new 8 day old brother was a chimpanzee ?

And what if he was suppose to be just a science experiment?

And what if you realized that the fate of your half brother was in your hands?

A young girl struggles to find a home…

Illegal immigrants from Mexico

A father kidnapped and jailed

Star, the abandoned dog, becomes a friend.

Mama Ya Ya can predict the future

So when she has visions of Katrina coming

Lanesha uses her courage to save herself and Mama Ya Ya from the storm…

Resilience, friendship, family and love…..

What if fairy tale magic really existed?

A library that lends objects from Grimm’s Collection in a secret room in the basement.

Anyone want to check out the sinister mirror in Snow White?

But then magical objects start to disappear and Elizabeth is determined to catch the thief!

Wimpy kid like

drawings….A funny misfit kid….

A story of a teenage boy and everyday up and downs

Full of wisecracking humor

Physical Challenges

Heartache

Humor

And

Love

A story of a boy, Jeffrey, a leukemia survivor, learning to live life to the fullest…

A Graphic Novel….

A story about a girl trying to deal with losing her front teeth from an accident…

And the problems she has with friends

Feeling different and finding out who her friends really are….

Based on a true story…

the mother who

abandoned them.

11 year old Delphine and her younger sisters Vonetta and Fern

Searching for….

1968, Oakland California, Afros and the Black Panther Party

The Prince of Mist…a diabolical spirit that lurks in a mysterious house…

And the Carver family youth who explore the secrets within

Read along and join their adventures!