Dorothy's List

Each spring, upper elementary students schools in the Mt. Abraham Unified School District travel to the middle and high school library for a…

For more than half a century, Vermont’s middle-grade students have been reading books on Dorothy’s List, a reading program and book award named for…

The Vermont Department of Libraries will be changing the name of the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award.Jason Broughton, the new state…

A group of fifth- and sixth-graders are in the library of Orleans Elementary School working on making “'zines.” 'Zines are like personal mini magazines,…

Beyond the Bright Sea takes place in 1925 on a string of small islands called the Elizabeths, off the coast of Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The novel is a…

Mars is a very different place from Earth. But for Liam and his friend Phoebe, the main characters in the science fiction novel Last Day on Mars, the…

In Ban This Book some of 9-year-old Amy Anne Ollinger’s favorite books have started to disappear off her school library's shelves, and she discovers that…

The historical novel Refugee weaves the stories of three refugee families fleeing their homes in different parts of the world and during different time…

Have you ever wondered what life would be like if you had no arms? How would you eat? Or write? Or turn the pages of a book? Those are some of the…

The real lives of pirates are documented in Martin W. Sandler’s The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked and Found. And after reading the book —…