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• Award year: 2016
• Audience: Older
• List: Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal

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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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  Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans

  By Don Brown

  Heroes surface, and people find courage in this exceptional graphic novel that addresses incompetence, racism, and the resilience of the people of the Crescent City.

  • Fiction, Graphic Novels, Social Sciences
  • Notable Children's Books 2016, Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal 2016 (Honor Title)
  • Older
  • ISBN: 9780544157774
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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