The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award

DCF MASTER LIST OF ANNOTATIONS 1997-98


[Picture of Dorothy Canfield Fisher]


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BEYOND THE WESTERN SEA:

BOOK ONE, THE ESCAPE FROM HOME,

BOOK TWO, LORD KIRKLE'S MONEY.
Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Laura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America; their fates continue to intertwine on board ship and in the New World.
Book One PLB ISBN 0-531-08863-4; Tr. ISBN 0-531-09513-4.
Book Two PLB ISBN 0-531-08870-7; Tr. ISBN 0-531-09520-7. Gr. 5 up.

Brooks, Bruce.
ASYLUM FOR NIGHTFACE.
A deeply spiritual fourteen-year-old takes a radical step to save himself from the fanaticism of his found again Christian parents.
ISBN 0-06-027061-6. Gr. 7 up.

Clements, Andrew.
FRINDLE.
When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.
ISBN 0-689-80669-8. Gr. 4 up

Danziger, Paula.
AMBER BROWN WANTS EXTRA CREDIT.
Unhappy over her parents' divorce and her mother's boyfriend Max, nine-year-old Amber finds her schoolwork suffering.
ISBN 0-399-22900-0. Gr. 4 up.

Fleischman, Sid.
THE ABRACADABRA KID.
The autobiography of the Newbery award-winning children's author who set out from childhood to be a magician.
ISBN 0-688-14859-X. Gr. 5 up.

Freeman, Suzanne.
THE CUCKOO'S CHILD.
Mia refuses to believe that her parents are not coming back after they're reported lost at sea.
ISBN 0 688-14290-7. Gr. 6 up.

Gauthier, Gail.
MY LIFE AMONG THE ALIENS.
Two brothers begin to wonder if it is their mother's unusual cooking that is attracting the aliens that keep showing up at their house.
ISBN 0-399-22945-0. Gr. 4 up.

Haas, Jessie.
BE WELL, BEWARE.
Lily is frightened when her beloved horse Beware gets sick and exhibits peculiar behavior.
ISBN 0-688-14545-0. Gr. 4 up.

Hahn, Mary Downing.
FOLLOWING MY OWN FOOTSTEPS.
In 1945, Gordy's grandmother takes him and his family into her North Carolina home after his abusive father is arrested, and he just begins to respond to his grandmother's loving discipline when his father returns. Sequel to STEPPING ON THE CRACKS.
ISBN 0-395-76477-7. Gr. 5 up.

Hesse, Karen.
THE MUSIC OF DOLPHINS.
After rescuing an adolescent girl from the sea, researchers learn she has been raised by dolphins and attempt to rehabilitate her to the human world.
ISBN 0-590-89797-7. Gr. 6 up.

Jackson, Donna.
THE BONE DETECTIVES.
Explores the world of forensic anthropology and its applications in solving crimes.
ISBN 0-316 82935-8. Gr. 5 up.

Kehret, Peg.
SMALL STEPS: THE YEAR I GOT POLIO.
The author describes her battle against polio when she was twelve and thirteen and her efforts to overcome its debilitating effects.
ISBN 0-8075-7457-0. Gr. 5 up.

Konigsburg, E.L.
THE VIEW FROM SATURDAY.
Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.
ISBN 0-689-80993 X. Gr. 6 up.

Lowry, Lois.
SEE YOU AROUND, SAM.
Sam Krupnik, mad at his mother because she won't let him wear his new plastic fangs in the house, decides to run away to Alaska.
ISBN 0-395-81664-5. Gr. 4 up.

McGraw, Eloise.
THE MOORCHILD.
Feeling that she is neither fully human nor "Folk," a changeling learns her true identity and attempts to find the human child whose place she had been given.
ISBN 0-689-80654-X.

Napoli, Donna Jo.
ZEL.
Based on the fairy tale RAPUNZEL, the story is told in alternating chapters from the point of view of Zel, her mother, and the prince, and delves into the psychological motivations of the characters.
ISBN 0-525-45612-0. Gr. 7 up.

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds.
SHILOH SEASON.
When mean and angry Judd, who has never known kindness, takes to drinking and mistreats his dogs, Marty discovers how deep a hurt can go and how long it takes to heal. Sequel to SHILOH.
ISBN 0-689-80647-7. Gr. 4 up.

Paterson, Katherine.
JIP: HIS STORY.
While living on a Vermont poor farm during 1855 and 1856, Jip learns his identity and that of his mother and comes to understand how he arrived at this place.
ISBN 0-525 67543-4. Gr. 5 up.

Paulsen, Gary.
PUPPIES, DOGS, AND BLUE NORTHERS.
Dog musher Gary Paulsen reflects on the growth - both his own and the puppies' - as man and animal discover the world.
ISBN 0-15-292881-2. Gr. 6 up.

Philbrick, Rodman.
THE FIRE PONY.
Eleven-year-old Roy lets himself find a loving family and a new home on the horse ranch which he and his older half-brother happen to come upon.
ISBN 0-590-55251-1. Gr. 6 up.

Singer, Marilyn.
ALL WE NEEDED TO SAY.
A collection of poems in which two girls, Tanya and Sophie, express their differing opinions on gym class, library hour, and other aspects of a day at school.
ISBN 0 689-80667-1. Gr. 5 up.

Stanley, Diane.
LEONARDO DA VINCI.
A biography of the Italian Renaissance artist and inventor who, at about age thirty, began writing his famous notebooks, which contain the outpourings of his amazing mind.
ISBN 0 688-10437-1. Gr. 4 up.

Tolan, Stephanie S.
WELCOME TO THE ARK.
When four child prodigies transfer from a center for research and rehabilitation to an experimental group home, they face another way of connecting with their world.
ISBN 0-688-13724-5. Gr. 7 up.

Turner, Megan Whelan.
THE THIEF.
Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone.
ISBN 0-688-14627-9.

Warren, Andrea.
ORPHAN TRAIN RIDER.
Discusses the placement of over 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children in homes throughout the Midwest from 1854 to 1929 by recounting the story of one boy and his brothers.
ISBN 0-395-69822-7. Gr. 4 up.

White, Ruth.
BELLE PRATER'S BOY.
When Woodrow's mother suddenly disappears, he moves to his grandparents' home in a small Virginia town where he befriends his cousin and together they find the strength to face the terrible losses and fears in their lives.
ISBN 0-374 30668-0. Gr. 6 up.

Wilson, Nancy Hope.
BECOMING FELIX.
Worried about the difficulties on h__ family's Massachusetts dairy farm, twelve-year-old JJ is willing to give up on his dreams of becoming a great clarinet player and on his friendship with a new Jewish classmate who shares his love of music.
ISBN 0-374-30664-8. Gr. 5 up.

Wood, Ted.
IDITAROD DREAM.
Relates the story of the fifteen-year-old Alaskan boy and his dogs as they prepare for and then run the 158-mile course of the Jr. Iditarod Race.
ISBN 0-8027-8407-0. Gr. 4 up.

Yolen, Jane
PASSAGER: THE YOUNG MERLIN TRILOGY, BOOK 1