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://ww w.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

2001 Honor Book
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.

2002 Honor Book

A look back on the process of how the Brooklyn Bridge was built. A fourteen year project now stands as on of the most popular world landmarks.

2003 Honor Book

A look into the past of a man destined for failure. After being imprisoned at a yound age, Jack Gantos retells his story and how he turned his life around and become a well know author.

2007 Honor Book

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

2009 Medal Winner

2007 Medal Winner

This is an in depth behind the scenes look into the first Apollo moon landing, from the first ideas to the final landing.

2005 Honor Book

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.

2005 Honor Book

This is a documentary of Sam Marshall's research and findings dealing with the tarantula.

2004 Medal Winner

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.

2003 Honor Book

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.

2002 Medal Winner

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.

2006 Honor Book

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.

2002 Honor Book

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.

2008 Medal Winner

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.

2004 Honor Book

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.

2008 Medal Winner

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.