Robert+Sibert+Award

**WELLESLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL LIBRARY WIKI **
The **Robert Sibert Medal** is is awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in English during the preceding year. The award is named in honor of Robert F. Sibert, the long-time President of Bound to Stay Bound Books, Inc.

Robert F. Sibert Medal Winners and Honor Books 2001-Present

2007 Medal Winner: Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh Honor Books: Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement by Ann Bausum Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea To Dance: A Ballerina’s Graphic Novel written by Siena Cherson Siegel, artwork by Mark Siegel written by Sy Montgomery, photographs by Nic Bishop

2006 Medal Winner: Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley by Sally M. Walker Honor Book: Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

2005 Medal Winner: The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman Honor Books: Walt Whitman: Words for America written by Barbara Kerley, illustrated by Brian Selznick The Tarantula Scientist written by Sy Montgomery, photographs by Nic Bishop Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing written by James Rumford, translated into Cherokee by Anna Sixkiller Huckaby

2004 Medal Winner: An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy Honor Book: I Face the Wind written by Vicki Cobb, illustrated by Julia Gorton

2003 Medal Winner: The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler by James Cross Giblin Honor Books: Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929 by Karen Blumenthal Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos Action Jackson written by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker When Marian Sang written by Pam Munoz Ryan, illustrated by Brian Selznick

2002 Medal Winner: Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti Honor Books: Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps by Andrea Warren Vincent van Gogh by Jan Greenberg  and Sandra Jordan Brooklyn Bridge by Lynn Curlee

2001 Medal Winner: Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado by Marc Aronson Honor Books: The Longitude Prize by Joan Dash; illustrated by Dusan Petricic Blizzard! The Storm That Changed America by Jim Murphy My Season with Penguins: An Antarctic Journal by Sophie Webb. Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned by Judd Winick