Showing 1–3 of 3 titles

• List: Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal
• Genre: Nonfiction
• Genre: History
• Genre: Biography
• Award year: 2016

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  The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club

  By Phillip Hoose

  Hoose presents the true World War II story of eight Danish teens who became resistance fighters while most of the adults in their country reacted passively to the Nazi takeover. He and Knud Pedersen, the original organizer of their Churchill Club, extensively conversed in person and via email; Hoose weaves Pedersen's own words into an adventurous narrative about these young heroes.

  • Nonfiction, History, World History, Biography
  • Notable Children's Books 2016, Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal 2016 (Honor Title)
  • Older
  • ISBN: 9780374300227
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  Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March

  By Lynda Blackmon Lowery, Elspeth Leacock, Susan Buckley, P. J. Loughran (Illustrator)

  This highly personal account of the historic 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery gives voice to activists participating in Civil Rights history.

  • Nonfiction, History, Social Sciences, Biography
  • Notable Children's Books 2016, Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal 2016 (Honor Title)
  • Older
  • ISBN: 9780803741232
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  Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement

  By Carole Boston Weatherford, Ekua Holmes (Illustrator)

  The inspirational singer and Civil Rights activist comes to life in 22 brief, first person, free verse poems that seamlessly incorporate Hamer's own words. The biography takes her from a sharecropping child to a community leader.

  • Nonfiction, History, US History, Poetry, Biography
  • Notable Children's Books 2016, Randolph Caldecott Medal 2016 (Honor Title), Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal 2016 (Honor Title)
  • All Ages
  • ISBN: 9780763665319