# Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal reading list

**21** books referenced by Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal, a reading-program curriculum framework spanning applicable K-12 grade levels.

The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children (American Library Association) to the most distinguished informational book for children published in English in the United States. Sibert winners anchor nonfiction units in US classrooms — from picture-book nonfiction like Fry Bread to middle-grade and YA titles like Bomb and March: Book Three.

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## Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal reading list

- [Almost Astronauts](https://readinglist.school/book/almost-astronauts) by Tanya Lee Stone _(Grades 5–9)_
- [An American Plague](https://readinglist.school/book/an-american-plague) by Jim Murphy _(Grades 6–10)_
- [Balloons over Broadway](https://readinglist.school/book/balloons-over-broadway) by Melissa Sweet _(Grades 1–4)_
- [Black Potatoes](https://readinglist.school/book/black-potatoes) by Susan Campbell Bartoletti _(Grades 6–10)_
- [Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon](https://readinglist.school/book/bomb) by Steve Sheinkin _(920L · Grades 6–9)_
- [Cotorras Sobre Puerto Rico](https://readinglist.school/book/parrots-over-puerto-rico) by Susan L. Roth _(Grades 2–5)_
- [Fry Bread](https://readinglist.school/book/fry-bread) by Kevin Noble Maillard _(Grades K–3)_
- [Funny Bones](https://readinglist.school/book/funny-bones) by Duncan Tonatiuh _(Grades 2–5)_
- [Kakapo Rescue](https://readinglist.school/book/kakapo-rescue) by Sy Montgomery _(Grades 4–7)_
- [March Book Three](https://readinglist.school/book/march-book-three) by John Lewis _(Grades 9–12)_
- [Mystery Fish](https://readinglist.school/book/secrets-of-a-civil-war-submarine) by Sally M. Walker _(Grades 6–10)_
- [Seen and Unseen](https://readinglist.school/book/seen-and-unseen) by Elizabeth Partridge _(Grades 5–9)_
- [Team Moon](https://readinglist.school/book/team-moon) by Catherine Thimmesh _(Grades 5–9)_
- [The Girl Who Drew Butterflies](https://readinglist.school/book/the-girl-who-drew-butterflies) by Joyce Sidman _(Grades 5–9)_
- [The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler](https://readinglist.school/book/the-life-and-death-of-adolf-hitler) by James Cross Giblin _(Grades 7–12)_
- [The Mona Lisa Vanishes](https://readinglist.school/book/the-mona-lisa-vanishes) by Nicholas Day _(Grades 6–8)_
- [The People's Painter](https://readinglist.school/book/the-peoples-painter) by Cynthia Levinson _(Grades 2–5)_
- [The Voice That Challenged a Nation](https://readinglist.school/book/the-voice-that-challenged-a-nation) by Russell Freedman _(Grades 6–10)_
- [The Wall](https://readinglist.school/book/the-wall-peter-sis) by Peter Sís _(Grades 5–9)_
- [Twelve Days in May](https://readinglist.school/book/twelve-days-in-may) by Larry Dane Brimner _(Grades 4–8)_
- [We Are the Ship](https://readinglist.school/book/we-are-the-ship) by Kadir Nelson _(Grades 4–8)_

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