Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award

Night on Fire

ibg.common.titledetail.imageloaderA nuanced and many-layered journey of self-awakening through the eyes of a white girl in small town Alabama in the 1960’s. When Billie hears that the Freedom Riders will be traveling through her town on the way to Montgomery, she begins to question her own beliefs and has to decide whether to remain silent or stand up to her family and speak out against the racism she discovers around her.

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher Master List 2016-2017

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Barnett, Mac & Jory John The Terrible Two 4 up
Beasley, Cassie Circus Mirandus 4 up
Benjamin, Ali The Thing about Jellyfish 5 up
Bond, Rebecca Escape from Baxters’ Barn 4 up
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker The War that Saved my Life 5 up
Brown, Don Drowned City:
Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans
6 up
Chmakova, Svetlana Awkward 5 up
Draper, Sharon Stella by Starlight 5 up
Gannon, Nicholas The Doldrums 4 up
Gino, Alex George 4 up
Graff, Lisa Lost in the Sun 5 up
Gruenbaum, Michael
with Todd Hasak-Lowy
Somewhere There is Still a Sun 5 up
Hautala, Beth Waiting for Unicorns 5 up
Hilton, Marilyn Full Cicada Moon 5 up
Hoose, Phillip The Boys Who Challenged Hitler:
Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
7 up
Jamieson, Victoria Roller Girl 4 up
Jones, Kelly Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 4 up
Kidd, Ronald Night on Fire 5 up
Maberry, Jonathan The Orphan Army (Nightsiders #1) 5 up
Magoon, Kekla Shadows of Sherwood 5 up
Nielsen, Jennifer A. A Night Divided 5 up
Oppel, Kenneth The Nest 5 up
Pearsall, Shelley The Seventh Most Important Thing 5 up
Priest, Cherie I am Princess X 7 up
Resau, Laura The Lightning Queen 5 up
Ryan, Pam Munoz Echo 5 up
Sands, Kevin The Blackthorn Key 5 up
Stead, Rebecca Goodbye Stranger 6 up
Stevenson, Noelle Nimona 7 up
Wiechman, Kathy Cannon Like a River 6 up
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