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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal, 2001-2017

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal, 2001-2017

Resources for the titles recognized by this award since its inception in 2001 -- recognizing the best informational books for children under 15

Resources for this booklist include:

  • 87 Videos
  • 67 Book Readings
  • 125 Lesson Plans
  • Total of 866 resources

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Brown Girl Dreaming
Brown Girl Dreaming
  • by Jacqueline Woodson
  • Multimedia Resources: 36
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    March Book Three
    March Book Three
  • by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
  • Multimedia Resources: 31
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    Right Word, The: Roget and His Thesaurus
    The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus
  • by Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet
  • Multimedia Resources: 27
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    Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
    Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
  • by Duncan Tonatiuh
  • Multimedia Resources: 26
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    Family Romanov, The: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
    The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
  • by Candace Fleming
  • Multimedia Resources: 24
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    Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
    Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
  • by Phillip Hoose
  • Multimedia Resources: 22
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    We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
    We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
  • by Kadir Nelson
  • Multimedia Resources: 22
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    Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker
    Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker
  • by Patricia Hruby Powell and Christian Robinson
  • Multimedia Resources: 22
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    Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras
    Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras
  • by Duncan Tonatiuh
  • Multimedia Resources: 21
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    Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
    Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
  • by Tanya Lee Stone
  • Multimedia Resources: 20
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    Locomotive
    Locomotive
  • by Brian Floca
  • Multimedia Resources: 20
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    Giant Squid
    Giant Squid
  • by Candace Fleming and Eric Rohmann
  • Multimedia Resources: 19
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    When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson
    When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson
  • by Pam Muñoz Ryan and Brian Selznick
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2003)
    Orbis Pictus Award (Winner, 2003)
  • Multimedia Resources: 19
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    Wall, The: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
    The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
  • by Peter Sís
  • Multimedia Resources: 19
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    Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade
    Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade
  • by Melissa Sweet
  • Multimedia Resources: 19
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    Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--The World's Most Dangerous Weapon
    Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--The World's Most Dangerous Weapon
  • by Steve Sheinkin
  • Multimedia Resources: 19
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    Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
    Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
  • by Carole Boston Weatherford and Ekua Holmes
  • Multimedia Resources: 19
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    Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot
    Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot
  • by Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop
  • Multimedia Resources: 17
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    Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95
    Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95
  • by Phillip Hoose
  • Multimedia Resources: 17
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    Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring
    Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring
  • by Jan Greenberg, Sandra Jordan, and Brian Floca
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2011)
    Orbis Pictus Award (Winner, 2011)
  • Multimedia Resources: 16
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    Splash of Red, A: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin
    A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin
  • by Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet
  • Multimedia Resources: 16
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    Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea
    Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea
  • by Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop
  • Multimedia Resources: 15
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    Hole in My Life
    Hole in My Life
  • by Jack Gantos
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2003)
    Printz Award (Honor, 2003)
  • Multimedia Resources: 15
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    Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands
    Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands
  • by Katherine Roy
  • Multimedia Resources: 15
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    Tarantula Scientist, The
    The Tarantula Scientist
  • by Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop
  • Multimedia Resources: 14
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    Parrots Over Puerto Rico
    Parrots Over Puerto Rico
  • by Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore
  • Multimedia Resources: 14
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    Boys Who Challenged Hitler, The: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
    The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
  • by Phillip Hoose
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2016)
    BGHB Awards (Honor, 2015)
  • Multimedia Resources: 14
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    Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story
    Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story
  • by Caren Stelson
  • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    Day-Glo Brothers, The: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors
    The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors
  • by Chris Barton and Tony Persiani
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2010)
  • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    Nic Bishop Spiders
    Nic Bishop Spiders
  • by Nic Bishop
  • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    American Plague, An: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
    An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
  • by Jim Murphy
  • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    What to Do about Alice?
    What to Do about Alice?
  • by Barbara Kerley and Edwin Fotheringham
  • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    Walt Whitman: Words for America
    Walt Whitman: Words for America
  • by Barbara Kerley and Brian Selznick
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2005)
  • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado
    Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado
  • by Marc Aronson
    • Sibert Medal (Winner, 2001)
    BGHB Awards (Winner, 2000)
  • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
    Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
  • by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
  • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
    Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
  • by Catherine Thimmesh
  • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    Action Jackson
    Action Jackson
  • by Jan Greenberg, Sandra Jordan, and Robert Andrew Parker
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2003)
  • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    Elephant Scientist, The
    The Elephant Scientist
  • by Caitlin O'Connell, Donna M. Jackson, and Timothy Rodwell
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2012)
    BGHB Awards (Honor, 2012)
  • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    Look Up!: Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard
    Look Up!: Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard
  • by Annette LeBlanc Cate
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2014)
    SB&F Prize (Winner, 2014)
  • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    Mad Potter, The: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius
    The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius
  • by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2014)
    Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2014)
  • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11
    Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11
  • by Brian Floca
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2010)
    SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2010)
  • Multimedia Resources: 10
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    Drawing from Memory
    Drawing from Memory
  • by Allen Say
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2012)
  • Multimedia Resources: 10
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    Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem
    Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem
  • by Rosalyn Schanzer
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2012)
  • Multimedia Resources: 10
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    Titanic: Voices from the Disaster
    Titanic: Voices from the Disaster
  • by Deborah Hopkinson
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2013)
    YALSA Nonfiction Award (Finalist, 2013)
  • Multimedia Resources: 10
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    Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March
    Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March
  • by Lynda Blackmon Lowery, Elspeth Leacock, Susan Buckley, and P.J. Loughran
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2016)
    Jane Addams Award (Winner, 2016)
  • Multimedia Resources: 10
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    Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
    Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
  • by Robert Byrd
  • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist
    Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist
  • by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2002)
    Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2002)
  • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    I Face the Wind
    I Face the Wind
  • by Vicki Cobb and Julia Gorton
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2004)
  • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing
    Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing
  • by James Rumford
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2005)
    Jane Addams Award (Honor, 2005)
  • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    Lightship
    Lightship
  • by Brian Floca
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2008)
  • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement
    Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement
  • by Ann Bausum
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2007)
    Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2007)
  • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    Blizzard!: The Storm That Changed America
    Blizzard!: The Storm That Changed America
  • by Jim Murphy
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2001)
  • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler
    We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler
  • by Russell Freedman and Laura Williams McCaffrey
  • Multimedia Resources: 7
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    Voice That Challenged a Nation, The: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
    The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
  • by Russell Freedman
  • Multimedia Resources: 7
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    Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans
    Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans
  • by Don Brown
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2016)
    Orbis Pictus Award (Winner, 2016)
  • Multimedia Resources: 7
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    Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850
    Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850
  • by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
    • Sibert Medal (Winner, 2002)
    Orbis Pictus Award (Winner, 2002)
  • Multimedia Resources: 5
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    Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley
    Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley
  • by Sally M. Walker
    • Sibert Medal (Winner, 2006)
    Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2006)
  • Multimedia Resources: 5
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    Longitude Prize, The
    The Longitude Prize
  • by Joan Dash and Dusan Petricic
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2001)
    BGHB Awards (Winner, 2001)
  • Multimedia Resources: 5
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    Black and White: The Confrontation of Reverence Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene
    Black and White: The Confrontation of Reverence Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene
  • by Larry Dane Brimner
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2012)
    Carter G. Woodson Award (Winner, 2012)
  • Multimedia Resources: 5
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    Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929
    Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929
  • by Karen Blumenthal
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2003)
  • Multimedia Resources: 4
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    Life and Death of Adolf Hitler, The
    The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler
  • by James Cross Giblin
    • Sibert Medal (Winner, 2003)
  • Multimedia Resources: 4
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    Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps
    Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps
  • by Andrea Warren
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2002)
  • Multimedia Resources: 4
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    Lafayette and the American Revolution
    Lafayette and the American Revolution
  • by Russell Freedman
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2011)
    Christopher Award (Winner, 2011)
  • Multimedia Resources: 4
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    Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II
    Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II
  • by Albert Marrin
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2017)
  • Multimedia Resources: 3
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    Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past
    Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past
  • by James M. Deem
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2009)
    SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2010)
  • Multimedia Resources: 3
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    My Season with Penguins: An Antarctic Journal
    My Season with Penguins: An Antarctic Journal
  • by Sophie Webb
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2001)
  • Multimedia Resources: 3
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    Brooklyn Bridge
    Brooklyn Bridge
  • by Lynn Curlee
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2002)
    Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2002)
  • Multimedia Resources: 3
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    To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel
    To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel
  • by Siena Cherson Siegel and Mark Siegel
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2007)
  • Multimedia Resources: 3
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    Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss and What I Learned
    Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss and What I Learned
  • by Judd Winnick
    • Sibert Medal (Honor, 2001)
    Américas Award (Commended, 2000)
  • Multimedia Resources: 2
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