Lists and Suggestions for Kids

List: Sibert Nonfiction Book Award Winners

Levinson, Cynthia, author.

"The first thing I can remember," Ben said, "I drew." As an observant young chil...

Fleming, Candace.

Describes the life cycle of the hard-working honeybee. ...

Maillard, Kevin Noble.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Using illustrations that show the diversity in Native Americ...

Sidman, Joyce.

Also available in Overdrive and RB Digital. "Newbery-Honor winning author Joyce Sidman explore...

Brimner, Larry Dane.

Also available in Overdrive. For twelve history-making days in May 1961, thirteen black and white ci...

Tonatiuh, Duncan.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Funny Bones tells the story of how the amusing calaveras--sk...

Bryant, Jen.

The story of "shy young Peter Mark Roget, [for whom] books were the best companions--and it wa...

Roth, Susan L.

"A combined history of the Puerto Rican parrot and the island of Puerto Rico, highlighting cur...

Sheinkin, Steve.

Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operatio...

Sweet, Melissa.

Also available in Hoopla and RB Digital. Award-winning artist Sweet tells the story of the puppetee...

Montgomery, Sy.

Also available on Hoopla and RB Digital. On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zea...

Stone, Tanya Lee.

Also available on Hoopla. What does it take to be an astronaut? Excellence at flying, courage, inte...

Nelson, Kadir.

Using an "Everyman" player as his narrator, Kadir Nelson tells the story of Negro League ...

Sís, Peter.

I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side - the Communist side - of the Iron Curtain. ...

Thimmesh, Catherine.

Also available in Overdrive, Hoopla, and RB Digital. Culled from direct quotes from the people behin...

Freedman, Russell.

Also available in Hoopla and RB Digital. In the mid-1930s, Marian Anderson was a famed vocalist who ...

Murphy, Jim.

Also available in Overdrive, Hoopla, and RB Digital. It's 1793, and there's an invisible ...

Aronson, Marc.

Recounts the adventurous life of the English explorer and courtier who spelled his name "Raleg...