(r10) SibertAward < CAL/English/Sanders

<pre>SIBERT AWARD </pre>
---

<img width="177" alt="The Robert Sibert Medal" src="http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/sibertmedal/sibertseal_noshadow%20.gif" title="Sibert Award" height="177" />

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)<br /><img width="150" alt="Penguin Book Cover" src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:5GRyD2B0wTY2KM:http://www.antarcticconnection.com/ab1583000equick/images/books/myseason2.jpg" title="My Seasons With Penguins" height="163" />
   1 2002 Winner- _Brooklyn Bridge_ by Lynn Curlee (Simon & Schuster/Atheneum Books for Young Readers)<br /><img width="150" alt="Book Cover_Bridge" src="http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n54/n271416.jpg" title="brooklyn bridge" height="226" />
   1 2003 Winner- _Hole in My Life_ by Jack Gantos (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux)<br /><img width="150" alt="Hole Book Cover" src="http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/x3/x19269.jpg" title="hole in My Life" height="230" />
   1 2007 Honor Book <p><em><u>To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel </u></em>written by Siena Cherson Siegel, artwork by Mark Siegel</p><p>           The story of Siena Siegel, her dream of becoming a prima ballerina, and how she overcame her obstacles to make her dream a reality.</p>

    <img width="150" alt="ballerina Book Cover" src="http://www.personal.psu.edu/rmc5071/blogs/rachel_cantones_elementary_education_e-portfolio/assets_c/2009/06/Picture%202-thumb-316x479-57420.png" title="To Dance" height="227" />

5. 2009 Winner- What To Do About Alice<br /><img width="150" alt="Alice on Bike Book cover" src="http://www.bcplib.org/images/Kids/Book%20Images/What%20to%20Do%20About%20Alice.jpg" title="What to DO About Alice" height="210" />

6. Team Moon

<img width="150" alt="world" src="http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/2/1316215/teammoon.jpg" title="Nicoles Book" height="166" />

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

<img width="125" alt="storyteller" src="http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/2/1316215/sequoyah.jpg" title="Nicole Book" height="181" />

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

<img width="155" alt="Spider" src="http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/2/1316215/tarscientist.gif" style="width: 126px; height: 147px" title="Nicoles Book" height="130" />

9.<strong>An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793</strong>; 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._

<img alt="americanplague.jpg" src="%ATTACHURL%/americanplague.jpg" />

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._

<img alt="sixdaysuse.jpg" src="%ATTACHURL%/sixdaysuse.jpg" />

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._

<br /><img alt="blackpotatoes.JPG" src="%ATTACHURL%/blackpotatoes.JPG" />

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

<em>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.</em><br /><img alt="hitleryouth.jpg" src="%ATTACHURL%/hitleryouth.jpg" />

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

<em>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.</em><br /><img alt="survivinghitleruse.jpg" src="%ATTACHURL%/survivinghitleruse.jpg" />
Attachments
Topic attachments
I	Attachment	Action	Size	Date	Who	Comment
jpg	What_to_Do_About_Alice.jpg	manage	62.8 K	2009-12-03 - 00:26	UnknownUser
Topic revision: r10 - 2009-12-04 - shelby
~~Edit~~
~~Attach~~
Copyright © 2008-2025 by the contributing authors. All material on this collaboration platform is the property of the contributing authors.
Ideas, requests, problems regarding CSUSB Community Wiki? Send feedback