Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award

Almost Astronauts : 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone

• The Day-Glo Brothers : the True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand New Colors by Chris Barton, illustrated by Tony Persiani

• Moonshot : the Flight of Apollo 11 written & illustrated by Brian Floca

• Claudette Colvin : Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose

Kakapo : Saving the World's Strangest Bird by Sy Montgomery, illustrated by Nic Bishop

• Ballet for Martha : Making Appalachian Spring by Jan Greenberg & Sandra Johnson, illustrated by Brian Floca

• Lafayette and the American Revolution by Russell Freedman

Balloons Over Broadway : the True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade written & illustrated by Melissa Sweet

• Black & White : the Confrontation Between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor by Larry Dane Brimner

• Drawing from Memory written & illustrated by Allen Say

• The Elephant Scientist by Caitlin O'Connell & Donnal M. Jackson, photographs by Caitlin O'Connell & Timothy Rodwell

• Witches! : the Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem written & illustrated by Rosalyn Schanzer

Bomb : the Race to Build - and Steal - the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin

• Electric Ben : the Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin written & illustrated by Robert Byrd

• Moonbird : a Year on the Wind with Great Survivor B95 by Phillip Hoose

• Titanic : Voices from the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson

Parrots Over Puerto Rico written by Susan L. Roth & Cindy Trumbore, illustrated by Susan L. Roth

• A Splash of Red : the Life and Art of Horace Pippin written by Jen Bryant, illustrated by Melissa Sweet

• Look Up!  Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard written & illustrated by Annette LeBlanc Cate

• Locomotive written & illustrated by Brian Floca

• The Mad Potter : George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius by Jan Greenberg & Sandra Jordan

The Right Word : Roget and His Thesaurus by Jen Bryant, illustrated by Melissa Sweet

• The Family Romanov : Murder, Rebellion & the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming

• Josephine : the Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker by Patricia Hruby Powell, illustrated by Christian Robinson

• Neighborhood Sharks : Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands written & illustrated by Katherine Roy

• Separate is Never Equal : Sylva Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation written & illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh

• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Bones : Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras written & illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh

• Drowned City : Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans written & illustrated by Don Brown

• The Boys Who Challenged Hitler : Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club by Phillip Hoose

• Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom : My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March by Lynda Blackmon Lowery, as told to Elspeth Leacock & Susan Buckley, illustrated by P. J. Loughran

• Voice of Freedom : Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil RIghts Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Ekua Holmes

March : Book Three by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, illustrated by Nate Powell

• Giant Squid by Candace Fleming, illustrated by Eric Rohmann

• Sachiko : A Nagaaki Bomb Survivor's Story by Caren Stelson

• Uprooted : the Japanese American Experience During World War II by Albert Marrin

• We Will Not Be Silent : the White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler by Russell Freedman

Twelve Days in May : Freedom Ride 1961 by Larry Dane Brimner

• Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix by Jacqueline Briggs Martin & June Jo Lee, illustrated by Man One

• Grand Canyon written & illustrated by Jason Chin

• Not So Different : What You Really Want to Ask about Having a Disability by Shane Burcaw, illustrated by Matt Carr

• Sea Otter Heroes : the Predators That Saved an Ecosystem by Patricia Newman

The Girl Who Drew Butterflies : How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science by Joyce Sidman

• Camp Panda : Helping Cubs Return to the Wild by Catherine Thimmesh

• Spooked! : How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America by Gail Jarrow

• The Unwanted : Stories of the Syrian Refugees written & illustrated by Don Brown

• We Are Grateful : Otsaliheliga by Trace Sorell, illustrated by Frané Lessac

• When Angels Sing : the Story of Rock Legend Carlos Santana by MIchael Mahin, illustrated by Jose Ramirez