Award-Sibert
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The Robert F. Sibert
Informational Book Award is named in honor of Robert F. Sibert,
the long-time President of Bound to Stay Bound Books, Inc. of
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2008 Sibert Award Book – The Wall: Growing Up Behind
the Iron Curtain (Peter Sís) j921 S622s
2008 Sibert Honor
Books
- Lightship (Brian Floca) j387.28 F628L
- Nic Bishop Spiders (Nic Bishop) j595.44 B622n
2007 Sibert Award Book – Team
Moon: How 40,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon (Catherine
Timmesh) j920 P964t
2007
Sibert Honor Books
- Freedom
Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines
of the Civil
Rights Movement (Ann Bausum)
j323.092 B351f
- Quest
for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of
(Sy
Montgomery/Nic Bishop) j599.22 M788q
- To
Dance: A Memoir (Siena Cherson Siegle/ Mark Siegle) j921 S5715s
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2006 Sibert Award Book – Secrets
of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of H.L. Hunley
(Sally M. Walker) j973.757 W184s
2006
Sibert Honor Book
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Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s
Shadow (Susan Campell Bartoletti)
j943.086
H675b
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2005 Sibert Award Book – The
Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal
Rights
(Russell
Freedman) j921 A548f
2005
Sibert Honor Books
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Walt Whitman: Words for
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The Tarantula Scientist (Sy Montgomery/Nic Bishop) j595.44 M788t
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Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His
People Writing (James Rumford)
j921
S479a
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2004 Sibert Award Book – An
American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic
of 1793 (Jim Murphy) j614.541 M978a
2004
Sibert Honor Book
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I Face the Wind (Vicki Cobb) j551.518 C653i
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2003 Sibert Award Book – The
Life and Death of Adolf Hitler (James Cross Giblin)
j921 H675g
2003
Sibert Honor Books
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Six Days in October: The Stock Market
Crash of 1929 (Karen Blumenthal)
j332.642 B658s
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Hole in My Life (Jack Gantos) j921 G211h
- Action Jackson (Jan Greenburg and
Sandra Jordan/ Robert Andrew Parker)
j921
P776g
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When Marian Sang (Pam Muñoz Ryan/ Brian Selznick) j921 A548r
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2002 Sibert Award Book – Black
Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850
(Susan Campbell Bartoletti)
j941.5 B292b
2002
Sibert Honor Books
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Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death
Camps (Andrea Warren)
j921 M2703w
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Vincent van Gogh (Jan Greenberg and
Sondra Jordan) j921 G613g
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2001 Sibert Award Book – Sir
Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado (Marc
Aronson) j921 R163a
2001
Sibert Honor Books
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The Longitude Prize (Joan Dash/ Dusan Petricic) j681.11 D229L
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Blizzard: The Storm That Changed
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My Season with Penguins: An Antarctic
Journal (Sophie Webb)
j598.47
W368m
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and Me: Friendship, Loss and What I Learned (Judd Winick)
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Professional
Resources
Marks, Diana F. Children’s Book Award Handbook. 2006. CML 810.809282 M346c
Created by Mary L.
Williams Curriculum Materials Library Staff
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Willard Hall,