Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award

Full Cicada Moon

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In 1969, twelve-year-old Mimi and her family move to an all-white town in Vermont, where Mimi’s mixed-race background and interest in “boyish” topics like astronomy make her feel like an outsider.

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Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer

9780385755528Sophie Brown’s family has just moved from Los Angeles to the farm they’ve inherited from a great-uncle. Farm life gets suddenly more interesting when their cranky chicken moves objects with only her brain: jam jars, the latch to her henhouse, the entire henhouse…. This quirky, clucky classic is told in letters to Sophie’s abuela, quizzes, a chicken-care correspondence course, to-do lists, and more.

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