Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award

Deep Water

Desperate to save his business, Julie’s ailing father agrees to take a father/son team of rich,
arrogant clients to a deep-sea site, but he needs 12-year-old Julie, an experienced diver, to actually
take them on the dive. Julie quickly discovers that the clients aren’t interested in doing things the
right way, and their recklessness results in the trio being lost at sea. With no boat and little hope, it
is up to Julie to fend off tragedy and find a way to survive.

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The Wonderling

Life for the groundlings at Miss Carbunkle’s Home for Wayward and Misbegotten Creatures can only be described as miserable and for the shy, one eared, half fox, half human known simply as Number 13, life is particularly dismal. Friendless and alone Number 13 believes his fate is sealed and that a cycle of hard work, devoid of joy is his destiny. This all changes when he meets
Trinket, a birdlike groundling, that convinces him to escape thus launching him straight onto the midst of a courageous journey.
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