SIBERT AWARD 

The following links will provide information on the award, the requirements for nomination, and much more!

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/sibertmedal/index.cfm

http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=Home&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=21608

http://www.library.pitt.edu/libraries/is/enroom/awards/sibert.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibert_Medal

Award winning and nominated books:

1. 2001 Winner- My Season with Penguins: An Antarctic Journal by Sophie Webb. (Houghton Mifflin Company)
   
2. 2002 Winner- Brooklyn Bridge by Lynn Curlee (Simon & Schuster/Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
   
3. 2003 Winner- Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux)
   
4. 2007 Honor Book

   To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel written by Siena Cherson Siegel, artwork by Mark Siegel

   The story of Siena Siegel, her dream of becoming a prima ballerina, and how she overcame her obstacles to make her dream a reality.

5. 2009 Winner- What To Do About Alice

6. Team Moon

7. Sequoyah; by James Rumford, 2005 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Award

8. The Trarantula Scientist; by Sy Montogomery, 2005 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Award

9.An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793; by Jim Murphy, 2004 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal Award

An account of the Yellow Fever epidemic in 1793. A deadly outbreak of influenza in Philadelphia kills thousands of people, and threatens the newborn United States of America, forcing President Washington to flee the city.

10. Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929;by Karen Blumenthal, 2003 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Award

A compilation of stories from people who lived the Crash of '29, and the "hows" and "whys" about Black Tuesday, and how a series of bad economic moves brought the United States to its knees, causing millions of people to lose everything they had.

11. Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850; by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, 2002 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal Award

An historical account of mid-19th century Ireland, English despotism, and the mysterious blight that rendered the staple diet of the Irish inedible, killing one million, and sending two million refugees abroad.

12. Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler's Shadow; by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, 2006 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Award

The recounting of growing up in Nazi-Germany, and the excitement and fury surrounding the notorious Hitler Youth. It explores the memories of those who lived during the Third Reich's rise to power and its ultimate demise.

13. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps; by Andrea Warren, 2002 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Award

A biography of Jack Mendelbaum, a young Polish Jew in the years preceding World War II. Jack recounts his childhood, Hitler's rise to power, and the horrible atrocities of the death camps, and how, against all odds, he survived.