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Robert F. Sibert Medal Awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished informational book published during the preceding year.
2008 Medal Winner

	The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain illustrated and written by Peter Sis

2008 Honor Book

	Lightship written and illustrated by Brian Floca

	Nic Bishop Spiders written and illustrated by Nic Bishop


Past Robert F. Sibert Medal Winners


2008	The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron curtain	Peter Sis
2007	Team Moon: How 4000,000 people Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon	Catherine Thimmesh
2006	Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley	Sally M. Walker
2005	The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marion Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights	Russell Freedman
2004	An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793	Jim Murphy
2003	The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler	James Cross Giblin
2002	Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850	Susan Campbell Bartoletti
2001	Sir Walter Raleigh and the Quest for El Dorado	Marc Aronson
For more information on the Robert F. Sibert Medal, visit the American Library Association site.