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<pre> </pre><strong>The Robert F. Sibert Medal</strong><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 Sibert Award and Honor Awards are presented to the authors of the most distinguished informational children's books published the previous year.

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

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibert_Medal <strong>Things We Found Interesting about the Sibert Award</strong>While reading our books for this award, we noticed a few common factors to their classification as Sibert Honor Books and Medal Winners. Essentially, all of these books can be categorized as informational books. Yet one thing that caught us off guard, was that each book had a story to tell. Each work had a plot and obstacles to overcome. While some of the books on the Sibert list seemed daunting and a bit boring at first, each book was enthralling, and we found ourselves becoming engrossed in reading each of them. Some of us read more of the books just for fun! Many of the books can be placed in their own genres, such as autobiography, history, science, and art. The common link between these genres, however, was the historicism behind each piece. Each piece had a true back story, one that helped develop the main characters of each work, and each of the back stories were based on historical fact. Also, one key link between the science based books was that in each one, there were diagrams, detailed photos, and charts, making it easier for young readers to understand the material. As they were informational, each book was filled with definitions unlike typical textbooks. The writers would say a concept, or a technical term, and then define it within the context of the work. This technique made each book exceptionally easy to read.

<strong><font color="#1e90ff"> *Award Winning and Nominated Books* </font></strong><em><strong>My Season with Penguins </strong></em><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" /> by Sophie Webb<br />2001 Honor Book <br /><em>My season with Penguins is a compilation of an artists journey. Sophie Webb travels to the cold climate plain of Antartica. Throughout her two-month stay she observes, records and draws her new found animal friends.</em><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><em><strong>The Brooklyn Bridge</strong></em><img width="150" alt="bb" src="http://www.capitolchoices.org/images/resources/Book/brooklyn_bridge_lg.jpg" title="Bridge" height="133" />by Lynn Curlee<br />2002 Honor Book<br /><br /><em>Brooklyn Bridge provides detailed information on the process of how the Brooklyn Bridge was built. A fourteen-year project now stands as on of the most popular world landmarks.</em> <br /><br /><br /><em><strong>Hole in My Life </strong></em><img width="150" alt="Hole Book Cover" src="http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/x3/x19269.jpg" style="width: 137px; height: 167px" title="hole in My Life" height="230" />by Jack Gantos<br />2003 Honor Book<br /><em>This book is a documented look into the past of a man destined for failure. After being imprisoned at a young age, Jack Gantos re-tells his story and how he turned his life around and become a well known author.</em> <br /><br /><br /><em><strong>To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel </strong></em><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" style="width: 136px; height: 168px" title="To Dance" height="227" />written by Siena Cherson Siegel, artwork by Mark Siege<br />2007 Honor Book<br /><em>This is a story of Siena Siegel, her dream of becoming a prima ballerina, and how she overcame her obstacles to make her dream a reality.</em> <br /><br /><br /><em><strong>What to Do About Alice </strong></em><img width="150" alt="Alice on Bike Book cover" src="http://www.bcplib.org/images/Kids/Book%20Images/What%20to%20Do%20About%20Alice.jpg" style="width: 130px; height: 169px" title="What to DO About Alice" height="210" />by Barbra Kerley<br />2009 Medal Winner<br /><em>This is an entertaining bibliography about Alice, President Theodore Rooesevelts daughter and their chaotic life in the WHite House.</em> <br /><br /><br /><em><strong>Team Moon:How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon </strong></em><img width="150" alt="world" src="http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/2/1316215/teammoon.jpg" style="width: 126px; height: 166px" title="Nicoles Book" height="166" />by Catherine Thimmesh<br />2007 Medal Winner<br /><em>This is an in depth behind the scenes look into the first Apollo moon landing, from the first ideas to the final landing. <br /><br /><br /><strong>Sequoyah </strong><img width="125" alt="storyteller" src="http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/2/1316215/sequoyah.jpg" style="width: 125px; height: 164px" title="Nicole Book" height="181" />by James Rumford<br />2005 Honor Book<br />This is the telling of the tale of Sequoyah in 1958, and the struggles he dealt with in creating the Cherokee writing. Though crippled he was able to be strong and stand tall resulting in the beautiful Sequoia trees taking his namesake. <br /><br /><br /><strong>The Tararantula Scientist </strong><img width="155" alt="Spider" src="http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/2/1316215/tarscientist.gif" style="width: 160px; height: 111px" title="Nicoles Book" height="130" />by Sy Montogomery<br />2005 Honor Book<br />This is a documentary of Sam Marshall's research and findings, dealing with the tarantula. <br /><br /><br /><strong>An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 </strong><img width="124" alt="americanplague.jpg" src="%ATTACHURL%/americanplague.jpg" style="width: 144px; height: 136px" height="156" />by Jim Murphy<br />2004 Medal Winner<br />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. <br /><br /><br /><strong>Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929 </strong><img width="130" alt="sixdaysuse.jpg" src="%ATTACHURL%/sixdaysuse.jpg" height="144" />by Karen Blumenthal<br />2003 Honor Book<br />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. <br /><br /><br /><strong>Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 </strong><img width="121" alt="blackpotatoes.JPG" src="%ATTACHURL%/blackpotatoes.JPG" style="width: 123px; height: 155px" height="116" />by Susan Campbell Bartoletti<br />2002 Medal Winner<br />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 /><br /><br /><strong>Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler's Shadow </strong><img width="157" alt="hitleryouth.jpg" src="%ATTACHURL%/hitleryouth.jpg" style="width: 148px; height: 188px" height="215" />by Susan Campbell Bartoletti<br />2006 Honor Book<br />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. <br /><br /><br /><strong>Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps </strong><img width="113" alt="survivinghitleruse.jpg" src="%ATTACHURL%/survivinghitleruse.jpg" style="width: 113px; height: 149px" height="186" />by Andrea Warren<br />2002 Honor Book<br />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. <br /><br /><br /><strong>Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley</strong><img width="201" alt="secrethunley.jpg" src="%ATTACHURL%/secrethunley.jpg" height="136" />by Sally M. Walker<br />2008 Medal Winner<br />A scientific and historic exploration of the Civil War submarine H.L. Hunley, the first sub to destroy an enemy ship, and also the search and reclamation of the Hunley after its discovery in Charleston Bay in 1995. <br /><br /><br /><strong>I Face The Wind</strong><img width="187" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll287/NicoleOlivaresHill/ifacethewind.jpg" style="width: 125px; height: 164px" height="269" border="0" />written by Vicki Cobb, illustrated by Julia Gorton<br />2004 Honor Book<br />This book introduces the wind, how it works and functions, through a series of hands-on activities it teaches how to understand something you cannot see. <br /><br /><br /><strong>The Wall: Growing Up behind the Iron Curtain </strong><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll287/NicoleOlivaresHill/thewall.jpg" border="0" />by Peter Sís<br />2008 Medal Winner<br />The tale of a young boy growing up in Czechoslavakia during the time of the Cold War struggling with what his government is telling him is right and what he feels. He knows he is destined to be an artist but is constantly being censored. </em>

<em><img width="290" alt="13 women who dare to dream" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6h5Zp9A3Uas/S3ho6OtEEDI/AAAAAAAAAoY/-vnCILpZhsE/s320/Almost+Astronauts.jpg" title="Almost Asronauts" height="320" /> 2010 Medal Winner</em>

<em>Almost Astronauts 13 Women Who Dare To Dream</em>

<em>By Tanya Lee Stone</em>

<em><img width="230" alt="With eyes close she opens her mouth and sings." src="http://www2.scholastic.com/content/media/products/3x/054506323x_xlg.jpg" title="When Marian Sang" height="252" />When Marian Sang </em> _By Pam Muñoz_

<em> <img width="250" alt="Jackson Pollock was a painter that went against the grain." src="http://mowrites4kids.drury.edu/authors/greenberg/images/action.jpg" title="Action Jackson" height="262" />By Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan2003 Honor Book<img width="268" alt="Froendship, Loss, and What I Learned" src="http://candlesinkites.com/erica/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/pedroandme.jpg" title="Pedro and Me" height="400" />By Judd Winick2001 Honor Book<img width="258" alt="Apollo 11" src="http://www.boingboing.net/200904082206.jpg" title="Moonshot" height="288" />By Brian Floca2010 Honor Book<img width="259" alt="Brian Floca" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8W5Hx-kr6fg/RfhS_sXo_tI/AAAAAAAAALg/8NJbGubn9U0/s400/Lightship.jpg" title="Lightship" height="283" />By Brian Floca2008 Honor Book<img width="293" alt="Nic Bishop" src="http://libraries.risd.org/summerreadingElem/summerreadingElem09/K-3graphics/spiders.jpg" title="Spiders" height="400" />By Nic Bishop2008 Honor Book<img width="160" alt="Russell Freedman" src="http://www.valdosta.edu/~jlstone/voicethatchalleged.gif" title="A Voice That Challenged A Nation" height="199" />By Russell Freedman2005 Medal Winner<img width="200" alt="Bob and Joe Switzer's bright ideas." src="http://simplyscience.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/16731.jpg" title="Day-Glo Brothers" height="258" />By Chris Barton2010 Honor Book<img width="216" alt="Negro League Baseball" src="http://media.btsb.com/TitleImages/6/670492/50148517.jpg" title="We are the Ship" height="219" />By Kadir Nelson2009 Medal Winner<img width="320" alt="Melting Glaciers" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nGmvhICJhvY/SaWwx-0au4I/AAAAAAAAAFg/NFwAellhQOc/s320/bodies+from+the+ice" title="Bodies from the Ice" height="270" />By James M. Deem2009 Honor Book<img width="270" alt="Joan Dash" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQXK8yM2fI0/SYNw9jSjgLI/AAAAAAAAAac/gNjcSBavp4o/s320/prize.jpg" title="The Longitude Prize" height="320" />By Joan Dash<img width="400" alt="Sy Montgomery" src="http://img.infibeam.com/img/5b7cb409/419/6/9780618496419.jpg" title="Quest For The Tree Kangaroo" height="335" />By Sy Montgomery2007 Honor Book<img width="383" alt="The Storm that Changed America" src="http://www.audiobooksonline.com/media/Blizzard_The_Storm_that_Changed_America_Jim_Murphy_unabridged_compact_discs.jpg" title="Blizzard" height="350" />By Jim Murphy2001 Honor Book<img width="365" alt="Twice toward justice" src="http://blogs.skokielibrary.info/explorer/files/2010/03/claudette-colvin1.jpeg" title="Claudette Colvin" height="400" />By Phillip Hoose2010 Honor Book<img width="324" alt="Protrait of an Artist" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CGRY07AKL._SL500_.jpg" title="Vincent van Gogh" height="475" />By Jan Grenberg and Sandra Jordan2002 Honor Book<img width="291" alt="Adolf Hitler" src="http://images.indiebound.com/711/903/9780395903711.jpg" title="Life and Death of Adolf Hitler" height="400" />By James Cross Giblin2003 Medal Winner<img width="302" alt="Words for America" src="http://rgr-static1.tangentlabs.co.uk/images/bau/97804393/9780439357913/0/0/plain/walt-whitman-words-for-america.jpg" title="Walt Whitman" height="400" />By Barbara Kerley2005 Honor Book<img width="320" alt="Civil Rights Movement" src="http://images.syndetics.com/index.php?client=sclsp&isbn=0792241738/LC.JPG&type=hw7" title="Freedom Riders" height="400" />By Ann Bausum2007 Honor Book<img width="417" alt="Quest for El Dorado" src="http://capitolchoices.communitypoint.org/images/resources/Book/sir_walter_lg.jpg" title="Sir Walter Ralegh" height="475" />By Marc Aronson2001 Medal Winner</em>
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