Named after Vermont writer Dorothy Canfield Fisher
(1879-1958), the DCF Award is a Vermont children's choice book award
that began in 1957. Students in grades 4-8 who have read at least five
books from a preselected list of 30 fiction and nonfiction chapter books
may vote for their favorite. Whichever book receives the most votes is
the DCF book winner for that year.
Past DCF Winners
2016: El Deafo, written by Cece Bell
2015: Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library, written by Chris Grabenstein
2014: Wonder, written by R.J. Palacio
2013: The Running Dream, written by Wendelin Van Draanen
2012: Smile, written by Raina Telgemeier
2011: 11 Birthdays, written by Wendy Mass
2010: The Hunger Games, written by Suzanne Collins
2009: Diary of a Wimpy Kid, written by Jeff Kinney
2008: Rules, written by Cynthia Lord
2007: Flush, written by Carl Hiassen
2006: The Old Willis Place, written by Mary Downing Hahn
2005: The Tale of Despereaux, written by Kate DiCamillo
2004: Loser, written by Jerry Spinelli
2003: Love That Dog, written by Sharon Creech
2002: Because of Winn Dixie, written by Kate DiCamillo
2001: Bud, Not Buddy, written by Christopher Paul Curtis
2000: Holes, written by Louis Sachar
1999: Ella Enchanted, written by Gail Carson Levine
1998: Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio, written by Peg Kehret
1997: Mick Harte Was Here, written by Barbara Park
1996: Time for Andrew, written by Mary Downing Hahn
1995: The Boggart, written by Susan Cooper
1994: Jennifer Murdley's Toad written by Bruce Coville
1993: Shiloh, written by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
1992: Maniac Magee, written by Jerry Spinelli
1991: Number the Stars, written by Lois Lowry
1990: Where it Stops, Nobody Knows, written by Amy Ehrlich
1989: Hatchet, written by Gary Paulsen
1988: Wait Till Helen Comes, written by Mary Downing Hahn
1987: The Castle in the Attic, written by Elizabeth Winthrop
1986: The War With Grandpa, written by Robert Smith
1985: Dear Mr. Henshaw, written by Beverly Cleary
1984: A Bundle of Sticks, written by Pat Rhoades Mauser
1983: Tiger Eyes, written by Judy Blume
1982: The Hand-Me-Down Kid, written by Francine Pascal
1981: Bunnicula, written by James Howe
1980: Bones on Black Spruce Mountain, written by David Budbill
1979: Kid Power, written by Susan Pfeffer
1978: Summer of Fear, written by Lois Duncan
1977: A Smart Kid Like You, written by Stella Pevsner
1976: The Toothpaste Millionaire, written by Jan Merrill
1975: The Eighteenth Emergency, written by Betsy Byars
1974: Catch a Killer, written by George Woods
1973: Never Steal a Magic Cat, written by Donald E. Caufield
1972: Flight of the White Wolf, written by Melvin Ellis
1971: Go To the Room of the Eyes, written by B. K. Erwin
1970: Kavik the Wolf Dog, written by Walt Morey
1969: Two in the Wilderness, written by M. W. Thompson
1968: The Taste of Spruce Gum, written by Jaqueline Jackson
1967: The Summer I Was Lost, written by Phillip Viereck
1966: Ribsy, written by Beverly Cleary
1965: Rascal, written by Sterling North
1964: The Bristle Face, written by Zachary Ball
1963: The Incredible Journey, written by Sheila Burnford
1962: City Under the Back Steps, written by Honore Lampman
1961: Captain Ghost, written by Thelma Bell
1960: Double or Nothing, written by Phoebe Erickson
1959: Comanche of the Seventh, written by Margaret Leighton
1958: Fifteen, written by Beverly Cleary
1957: Old Bones, the Wonder Horse, written by Mildred Pace
