Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award Book List for 2008-2009

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In Progress:

• The Traitors’ Gate by Avi
• Blue Lipstick by John Grandits
• Chase by Jessie Haas
• Diary of a Whimpy Kid Kid Jeff Kinney
• Elephant Run  by Roland Smith 
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
• Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf  by Jennifer Holm
• Robot Dreams by Sara Varon
• Beowulf by James Rumford

• Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow by James Sturm and Rich Tommaso

• Dragon’s Egg by Sarah L. Thomson

• A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban

•  Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale

Up for Grabs:   

Cracker! by Cynthia Kadohata 

Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate

Jack Plank Tells Tales by Natalie Babbitt 

Tasting the Sky by Ibtisam Barakat 

Tracking Trash by Loree Griffin Burne 

No Talking by Andres Clements 

Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis 

Who Was First? by Russell Freedman 

Do Not Pass Go by Kirkpatrick Hill 

The Seems: the Glitch in Sleep by John Hulme and Michael Wexler 

 Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne  Jonell 

Schooled by Gordon Korman 

The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex 

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlitz 

The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt 

Red Moon at Sharpsburg by Rosemary Wells 

Way Down Deep by Ruth White