2011 DCF Winner!

Congratulations to Wendy Mass, author of 11 Birthdays, winner of the 2011 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award.  In a very close race, Vermont readers chose 11 Birthdays by eleven votes.  Details on the DCF Award Ceremony will be posted soon on the DCF Award site.

Six-word Summaries

Can you match the following six-word summaries with the books they describe?

1. Boy survives wild after plane crash
2. Pain anguish sorrow death gone forever.
3. Fire death war anger betrayal capture.
4. Food animals healthy farms factories organic.
5. Teenager recruited ruthless organization MI6 spy.
6. Strength perseverance loyalty friendship trust adjustments.
7. Perfection genetically modified reclusive no family.
8. Secretive agents children test island danger.
9. Poetry channels feelings boy's dead dog.
10. Trapped immobilized insane nightmare flying release.

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