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Information Book - Sibert Award - honor books
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2001 Dash, Joan. The Longitude Prize Presents the story of John Harrison, an 18th century English inventor who spent forty years developing a device to measure longitude. 2000 Children's Nonfiction Book 527.209 D |
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2001 Murphy, Jim Blizzard: The Storm That Changed America Presents a history, based on personal accounts and newspaper articles, of the massive snow storm that hit the Northeast in 1888, focusing on the events in New York City. 2000 Children's Nonfiction Book 974.71041 M |
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2001 Webb, Sophie My Season with Penguins Describes the author's two-month stay in Antarctica to study and draw penguins. Includes glossary. 2000 Children's Nonfiction Book 598.441 W |
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2001 Winick, Judd Pedro and Me: Friendship Loss and What I Learned In graphic art format, describes the friendship between two roommates on the MTV show Real World, one of whom died of AIDS. 2000 Teen Nonfiction Book 362.19697 W |
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2002 Warren, Andrea Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001 Children's Nonfiction Book 940.5315 W |
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2002 Greenberg, Jan Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist A biography of the tormented man who was one of the 19th century's greatest artists. 2001 Children's Nonfiction Book 921 V295 |
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2002 Curlee, Lynn The Brooklyn Bridge Describes the planning, construction, and history of the Brooklyn Bridge, celebrated as one of the greatest landmarks and grandest sights of New York City. 2001 Children's Nonfiction Book 624.50974 C |
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2003 Blumenthal, Karen Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929 A comprehensive review of the events, personalities, and mistakes behind the Stock Market Crash of 1929, featuring photographs, newspaper articles, and cartoons of the day. 2002 Children's Nonfiction Book 338.54097 B |
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2003 Gantos, Jack Hole in My Life The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer. 2002 Teen Nonfiction Book 921 G156 |
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2003 Greenberg, Jan Action Jackson Imagines Jackson Pollock at work during the creation of one of his paint-swirled and splattered canvasses. 2002 Children's Nonfiction Book 921 P757 |
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2003 Ryan, Pam Munoz When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson the Voice of a Century An introduction to the life of Marian Anderson, extraordinary singer and civil rights activist, who was the first African American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera, whose life and career encouraged social change. 2002 Children's Nonfiction Book 921 An23 |
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2004 Cobb, Vicki I Face the Wind Introduces the characteristics and actions of the wind through simple hands-on activities. 2003 Easy Nonfiction Book 551.518 C |
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2005 Kerley, Barbara Walt Whitman: Words for America A biography of the American poet whose compassion led him to nurse soldiers during the Civil War, to give voice to the nation's grief at Lincoln's assassination, and to capture the true American spirit in verse. 2004 Children's Nonfiction Book 921 W59 |
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2005 Montgomery, Sy The Tarantula Scientist Describes the research that Samuel Marshall and his students are doing on tarantulas, including the largest spider on earth, the Goliath birdeating tarantula. 2004 Children's Nonfiction Book 595.44 M |
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2005 Rumford, James Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave his People Writing While walking through a forest of sequoias, a father tells his family the story of the tree's namesake. Sequoyah was a Cherokee man who invented a system of writing for his people. His neighbors feared the symbols he wrote and burned down his home. All of his work was lost, but, still determined, he tried another approach. The Cherokee people finally accepted the written language after Sequoyah taught his six-year-old daughter to read. 2004 Children's Nonfiction Book 921 Se59 |
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2006 Bartoletti, Susan Campbell Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow The story of a generation of German young people who devoted all their energy to the Hitler Youth and the propaganda that brought gave Hitler his power, and the youths that resisted the Nazi movement. 2005 Children's Nonfiction Book 943.086 B |
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2007 Bausum, Ann. Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg On the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement 2006 Children's Nonfiction Book 323.0975 B |
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2007 Montgomery, Sy Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea Follow a group of explorers and scientists as they travel to Papua New Guinea to find a type of kangaroo that lives in trees. 2006 Children's Nonfiction Book 599.22 M |
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2007 Siegel, Siena Cherson To Dance: A Memoir The author describes how she first decided she wanted to be a ballerina at the age of six, and how that dream carried her from her home in Puerto Rico to dance class in Boston to performing with the New York City Ballet 2006 Children's Nonfiction Book 792.8028 S |
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2008 Floca, Brian Lightship Lightships once served where lighthouses could not be built. They helped to guide sailors safely through the fog. 2007 Easy Nonfiction Book 387.28 F |
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