Lists and Suggestions for Kids
List: Sibert Nonfiction Book Award Winners
Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera.
Fleming, Candace.
Describes the life cycle of the hard-working honeybee. ...
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
Maillard, Kevin Noble.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Using illustrations that show the diversity in Native Americ...
The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science
Sidman, Joyce.
Also available in Overdrive and RB Digital. "Newbery-Honor winning author Joyce Sidman explore...
Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961
Brimner, Larry Dane.
Also available in Overdrive. For twelve history-making days in May 1961, thirteen black and white ci...
Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras
Tonatiuh, Duncan.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Funny Bones tells the story of how the amusing calaveras--sk...
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus
Bryant, Jen.
The story of "shy young Peter Mark Roget, [for whom] books were the best companions--and it wa...
Parrots Over Puerto Rico
Roth, Susan L.
"A combined history of the Puerto Rican parrot and the island of Puerto Rico, highlighting cur...
Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World
Sheinkin, Steve.
Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operatio...
Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade
Sweet, Melissa.
Also available in Hoopla and RB Digital. Award-winning artist Sweet tells the story of the puppetee...
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World
Montgomery, Sy.
Also available on Hoopla and RB Digital. On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zea...
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
Stone, Tanya Lee.
Also available on Hoopla. What does it take to be an astronaut? Excellence at flying, courage, inte...
We Are The Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
Nelson, Kadir.
Using an "Everyman" player as his narrator, Kadir Nelson tells the story of Negro League ...
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
Sís, Peter.
I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side - the Communist side - of the Iron Curtain. ...
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
Thimmesh, Catherine.
Also available in Overdrive, Hoopla, and RB Digital. Culled from direct quotes from the people behin...
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
Freedman, Russell.
Also available in Hoopla and RB Digital. In the mid-1930s, Marian Anderson was a famed vocalist who ...
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
Murphy, Jim.
Also available in Overdrive, Hoopla, and RB Digital. It's 1793, and there's an invisible ...
Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado
Aronson, Marc.
Recounts the adventurous life of the English explorer and courtier who spelled his name "Raleg...