LibGuides: Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award: 2000s

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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal
2001-2009

2001

Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado written & illustrated by Marc Aronson

Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for el Dorado by Marc Aronson
Call Number: J-942 RAL (Juvenile Non-Fiction)
ISBN: 9780395848272
Publication Date: 2000-04-17
Recounts the adventurous life of the English explorer and courtier who spelled his name "Ralegh" and led many expeditions to the New World.

The Longitude Prize by Joan Dash and illustrated by Dušan Petričić

BLIZZARD! The Storm That Changed America by Jim Murphy

My Season with Penguins : an Antarctic Journal written and illustrated by Sophie Webb

Pedro and Me : Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned written and illustrated by Judd Winick

The Longitude Prize by Joan Dash; Dusan Petricic (Illustrator); J. Dash
Call Number: J-681.1 DAS (Juvenile Non-FIction
ISBN: 9780374346362
Publication Date: 2000-10-13
The story of John Harrison, inventor of watches and clocks, who spent forty years working on a time-machine which could be used to accurately determine longitude at sea.

Blizzard! : the storm that changed America by Jim Murphy (Illustrator)
Call Number: Juv 974.7 MUR (Juvenile nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780590673099
Publication Date: 2000-11-01
Presents a history based on personal accounts and newspaper articles of the massive snowstorm that hit the Northeast in 1888, focusing on the events in New York City.

My Season with Penguins by Sophie Webb
Call Number: Juv 598.4 WEB (Juvenile nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780395922910
Publication Date: 2000-09-26
Describes the author's two-month stay in Antarctica to study and draw penguins.

Pedro and Me : friendship, loss, and what I learned by Judd Winick
Call Number: YA 362.1 WIN-J (Young adult nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780805064032
Publication Date: 2000-09-06
In graphic art format, describes the friendship between two roommates on the MTV show "Real World," one of whom died of AIDS.

2002

Black Potatoes : the Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Black Potatoes : the story of the great Irish famine, 1845-1850 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Call Number: Juv 941.5 BAR (Juvenile nonfiction)J-
ISBN: 9780618002719
Publication Date: 2001-10-29
A narrative of the Great Irish Famine culled from archives, letters, diaries, folk memories, and newspaper accounts.

Surviving Hitler : a Boy in the Nazi Death Camps by Andrea Warren

Vincent van Gogh by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan

Brooklyn Bridge written and illustrated by Lynn Curlee

Surviving Hitler : a boy in the Nazi death camps by Andrea Warren
Call Number: Juv B MAN (Juvenile biography)
ISBN: 9780060007676
Publication Date: 2002-09-17
Blends the personal testimony of Holocaust survivor, Jack Mandelbaum, with the history of his time, documented by photos from the archives of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. What was the secret to surviving the death camps? How did you keep from dying of heartbreak in a place of broken hearts and broken bodies? "Think of it as a game, Jack," an older prisoner tells him. "Play the game right and you might outlast the Nazis." Caught up in Hitler's Final Solution to annihilate Europe's Jews, fifteen-year-old Jack is torn from his family and thrown into the nightmarish world of the concentration camps. Despite intolerable conditions, Jack resolves not to hate his captors, and vows to see his family again. He forges friendships with other prisoners, and together they struggle to make it one more hour, one more day. But even with his strong will to live, can Jack survive the life-and-death game he is forced to play with his Nazi captors? Award-winning author Andrea Warren has crafted an unforgettable true a story of courage, friendship, family love, and a boy becoming a man in the shadow of the Third Reich.

Vincent Van Gogh : portrait of an artist by Jan Greenberg; Sandra Jordan
Call Number: Juv B VAN (Juvenile fiction)
ISBN: 9780385328067
Publication Date: 2001-08-14
Vincent Van Gogh—one of the nineteenth century's most brilliant artist—will forever be remembered as the Dutchman who pioneered new techniques and styles and who, in a fit of passion, cut off his own ear. Whether painting a portrait, landscape, or still life, van Gogh sought to capture the vibrant spirit of his subject. Still, fame eluded him. This lack of recognition over a career spanning a mere decade (from ages twenty-seven to thirty-seven) fueled his lifelong self-doubt and bitter disappointments. Today, however, van Gogh's paintings are recognized as masterpieces, and the tormented Dutchman stands as a giant among artists.

Brooklyn Bridge by Lynn Curlee (Illustrator)
Call Number: Easy 625.5 CUR (Easy nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780689831836
Publication Date: 2001-05-01
Describes the planning, construction, and history of the Brooklyn Bridge, celebrated as one of the greatest landmarks and grandest sights of New York City.

2003

The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler by James Cross Giblin

The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler by James Cross Giblin
Call Number: Juv B HIT (Juvenile biography)
ISBN: 9780395903711
Publication Date: 2002-04-22
Traces the life of Adolf Hitler from his childhood to his final days while exploring the forces and social conditions that furthered his rapid rise to power.

Six Days in October : the Stock Market Crash of 1929 by Karen Blumenthal
Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos
Action Jackson by Jan Greenberg & Sandra Jordan, illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker
When Marian Sang by Pam Muñoz Ryan, illustrated by Brian Selznick

Six Days in October by Karen Blumenthal
Call Number: Juv 332.64 BLU (Juvenile nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780689842764
Publication Date: 2002-09-01
A comprehensive review of the Stock Market Crash of 1929, featuring photographs, newspaper articles, and cartoons.

Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos
Call Number: Juv B GAN (Juvenile biography)
ISBN: 9780374399887
Publication Date: 2002-03-26
The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer.

Action Jackson by Jan Greenberg; Sandra Jordan; Robert Andrew Parker (Illustrator)
Call Number: Easy B POL (Easy biography)
ISBN: 9780761327707
Publication Date: 2002-09-01
Imagines Jackson Pollock at work during the creation of one of his paint-swirled and splattered canvasses.

When Marian Sang : the true recital of Marian Anderson, the voice of a century by Pam Muñoz Ryan; Brian Selznick (Illustrator)
Call Number: Easy B AND (Easy biography)
ISBN: 9780439269674
Publication Date: 2002-10-01
An introduction to the life of Marian Anderson, the first African American to perform with the Metropolitan Opera.

2004

An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy

An American Plague : the true and terrifying story of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy
Call Number: Juv 614.5 MUR (Juvenile Non-Fiction)
ISBN: 9780395776087
Publication Date: 2003-06-23
A portrait of the rampant Yellow Fever plague of 1793 that devastated Philadelphia.

I Face the Wind by Vicki Cobb, illustrated by Julia Gorton

I Face the Wind by Vicki Cobb; Julia Gorton (Illustrator)
Call Number: Easy 551.51 COB (Easy nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780688178406
Publication Date: 2003-04-15
Introduces the characteristics and actions of the wind through simple hands-on activities.

2005

The Voice that Challenged a Nation : Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman

The Voice That Challenged a Nation : Marian Anderson and the struggle for equal rights by Russell Freedman
Call Number: Juv B AND (Juvenile biography)
ISBN: 9780618159765
Publication Date: 2004-05-25
The life of Marian Anderson and her 1936 concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

Walt Whitman : Words for America by Babara Kerley, illustrated by Brian Selznick
The Tarantula Scientist by Sy Montgomery, illustrated by Nic Bishop
Sequoyah : the Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing written & illustrated by James Rumford

Walt Whitman : words for America by Barbara Kerley; Brian Selznick (Illustrator)
Call Number: Juv B WHI (Juvenile biography)
ISBN: 9780439357913
Publication Date: 2004-10-01
A biography of the poet who captured the American spirit in verse.

The Tarantula Scientist by Sy Montgomery; Nic Bishop (Photographer)
Call Number: Juv 595.4 MON (Juvenile nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780618147991
Publication Date: 2004-03-23
Describes the research that Samuel Marshall and his students are doing on tarantulas.

Sequoyah : the Cherokee man who gave his people writing by James Rumford; Anna Sixkiller Huckaby (Translator)
Call Number: Juv B SEQ (Juvenile biography)
ISBN: 9780618369478
Publication Date: 2004-11-01
A biography of Sequoyah, the Cherokee man who developed a system of writing for his people.

2006

Secrets of a Civl War Submarine : Solving the Mysteries of the H. L. Hunley by Sally M. Walker

Secrets of a Civil War Submarine : solving the mysteries of the H. L. Hunley by Sally M. Walker
Call Number: Juv 973.7 WAL (Juvenile nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781575058306
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Discusses the H.L. Hunley, a Civil War submarine.

Hitler Youth : Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Hitler Youth : growing up in Hitler's shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Call Number: YA 943 BAR-SC (Young adult nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780439353793
Publication Date: 2005-04-01
Discusses the Hitler Youth organization in Germany, those who resisted the Nazi movement, and Jewish youths and others who were targeted by the Third Reich.
Hitler Youth [CD] : growing up in Hitler's shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti; Kathrin Kana (Read by)
Call Number: YA-CD 943 BAR-SC (Young adult CD audiobooks)
ISBN: 9780739336625
Publication Date: 2006-10-24

2007

Team Moon : How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh

Team Moon : how 400,000 people landed Apollo 11 on the moon by Catherine Thimmesh
Call Number: Juv 629.45 THI (Juvenile nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780618507573
Publication Date: 2006-06-26
Culled from direct quotes from the people behind the scenes, NASA transcripts, national archives and NASA photos, the whole story of Apollo 11 and the first moon landing emerges.

Freedom Riders : John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement by Ann Bausum
Quest for the Tree Kangaroo : an Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea by Sy Montgomery, illustrated by Nic Bishop
To Dance : a Ballerina's Graphic Novel by Siena Cherson Siegel, illustrated by Mark Siegel

Quest for the Tree Kangaroo : an expedition to the cloud forest of New Guinea by Nic Bishop (Photographer); Sy Montgomery
Call Number: Juv 599.2 MON (Juvenile nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780618496419
Publication Date: 2006-10-30
Follow a group of explorers and scientists as they travel to Papua New Guinea to find a type of kangaroo that lives in trees.

To Dance : a memoir by Siena Cherson Siegel; Mark Siegel (Illustrator)
Call Number: Juv B SIE (Juvenile biography)
ISBN: 9781416926870
Publication Date: 2006-10-01
The author describes how she first decided she wanted to be a ballerina at the age of six, and how that dream carried her from her home in Puerto Rico to dance class in Boston to performing with the New York City Ballet.

2008

The Wall : Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain written & illustrated by Peter Sis

The Wall : growing up behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sís (Illustrator)
Call Number: Easy XS (Easy Fiction)
ISBN: 9780374347017
Publication Date: 2007-08-21
A personal history of the Cold War as experienced by a boy growing up under Communism in Czechoslovakia.

Lightship written and illustrated by Brian Floca
Nic Bishop : Spiders written & illustrated by Nic Bishop

Lightship by Brian Floca (Illustrator)
Call Number: Easy 387.2 FLO (Easy nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781416924364
Publication Date: 2007-03-06
Explores a lightship, with a bright light, moored at a place of dangerous navigation where a lighthouse could not be built.

Spiders (Nic Bishop) by Nic Bishop (Photographer)
Call Number: Juv 595.4 BIS (Juvenile nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780439877565
Publication Date: 2007-09-01
Up close photographs and text reveal spiders molting, weaving webs, hunting, eating, dancing and more.

2009

We Are the Ship : the Story of Negro League Baseball written & illustrated by Kadir Nelson

We Are the Ship : the story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
Call Number: Juv 796.357 NEL (Juvenile Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780786808328
Publication Date: 2008-01-08
Kadir Nelson tells the story of Negro League baseball from its beginnings to its end.
We Are the Ship [CD] : the story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson; Dion Graham (Read by)
Call Number: J-CD Nonfiction NE (Juvenile Audiobook CD)
ISBN: 9781423375364
Publication Date: 2009-01-30

Bodies from the Ice : Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past by James M. Deem
What to Do About Alice? : How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drover Her Father Teddy Crazy! by Barbara Kerley, illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham

Bodies from the Ice : melting glaciers and the recovery of the past by James M. Deem
Call Number: Juv 599.9 DEE (Juvenile nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780618800452
Publication Date: 2008-10-06
Takes readers around the world, from Chile to France to North America, to learn about the world's melting glaciers and what lies beneath.

What to Do about Alice? : how Alice Roosevelt broke the rules, charmed the world, and drove her father Teddy crazy! by Barbara Kerley; Edwin Fotheringham (Illustrator)
Call Number: Easy B LON (Easy biography)
ISBN: 9780439922319
Publication Date: 2008-03-01
A biography of a maverick American heroine--the outspoken daughter of Teddy Roosevelt.

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award

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2001

Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado written & illustrated by Marc Aronson

The Longitude Prize by Joan Dash and illustrated by Dušan Petričić

BLIZZARD! The Storm That Changed America by Jim Murphy

My Season with Penguins : an Antarctic Journal written and illustrated by Sophie Webb

Pedro and Me : Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned written and illustrated by Judd Winick

2002

Black Potatoes : the Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Surviving Hitler : a Boy in the Nazi Death Camps by Andrea Warren

Vincent van Gogh by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan

Brooklyn Bridge written and illustrated by Lynn Curlee

2003

The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler by James Cross Giblin

Six Days in October : the Stock Market Crash of 1929 by Karen Blumenthal

Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos

Action Jackson by Jan Greenberg & Sandra Jordan, illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker

When Marian Sang by Pam Muñoz Ryan, illustrated by Brian Selznick

2004

An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy

I Face the Wind by Vicki Cobb, illustrated by Julia Gorton

2005

The Voice that Challenged a Nation : Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman

Walt Whitman : Words for America by Babara Kerley, illustrated by Brian Selznick

The Tarantula Scientist by Sy Montgomery, illustrated by Nic Bishop

Sequoyah : the Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing written & illustrated by James Rumford

2006

Secrets of a Civl War Submarine : Solving the Mysteries of the H. L. Hunley by Sally M. Walker

Hitler Youth : Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

2007

Team Moon : How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh

Freedom Riders : John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement by Ann Bausum

Quest for the Tree Kangaroo : an Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea by Sy Montgomery, illustrated by Nic Bishop

To Dance : a Ballerina's Graphic Novel by Siena Cherson Siegel, illustrated by Mark Siegel

2008

The Wall : Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain written & illustrated by Peter Sis

Lightship written and illustrated by Brian Floca

Nic Bishop : Spiders written & illustrated by Nic Bishop

2009

We Are the Ship : the Story of Negro League Baseball written & illustrated by Kadir Nelson

Bodies from the Ice : Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past by James M. Deem

What to Do About Alice? : How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drover Her Father Teddy Crazy! by Barbara Kerley, illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham