Selected Informational Books
These informational chapter books and many more can be found in the Children's Collection on the main floor of Montgomery Library.
Just a Girl: A true story of World War II by 
This Promise of Change by Informational Books
Informational chapter books provide children with facts about various nonfiction topics.
Find these informational chapter books and many others in the Children's Collection on Montgomery Library's main floor.
| 1919: the year that changed America | E 784 .S25 2019 | ||
| All in a drop / Lori Alexander | QH 31 .L55 A44 2018 | ||
| All thirteen: the incredible cave rescue of the Thai Boys' soccer team / Christina Soontornvat | GV 200.66 .T52 C457 2020 | ||
| America is under attack: the day the towers fell / Don Brown | HV 6432.7 .B767 2011 | ||
| An American plague: the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 / Jim Murphy | R A644.Y4 M875 2003 | ||
| Blizzard of glass: the Halifax explosion of 1917 / Sally M. Walker | F 1039.5 .H17 W35 2011 | ||
| Bomb / Steve Sheinkin | UG 1282.A8 S235 2012 | ||
| Boots on the ground: America's war in Vietnam / Elizabeth Partridge | DS 558 .P38 2018 | ||
| Bootleg: murder, moonshine, and the lawless years of Prohibition / Karen Blumenthal | HV 5089 .B66 2011 | ||
| Box: Henry Brown mails himself to freedom / Carole Boston Weatherford | E 450 .B873 2020 | ||
| The boys who challenged Hitler / Phillip Hoose | D 802 .D4 H645 2015 | ||
| Brown v. Board of Education / Susan Goldman Rubin | KF 228 .B76 R83 2016 | ||
| Call and response: the story of Black Lives Matter / Veronica Chambers | E 185.615 .C54 2021 | ||
| Fallout: spies, superbombs, and the ultimate Cold War showdown / Steve Sheinkin | E 841 .S54 2021 | ||
| Fault lines in the Constitution / Cynthia Levinson & Sanford Levinson | KF 4550.Z9 L475 2017 | ||
| How the Beatles changed the world / Martin W. Sandler | ML 3930 .B39 S26 2014 | ||
| How to build a human in seven evolutionary steps / Pamela S. Turner | GN 281 .T87 2022 | ||
| In the shadow of liberty / Kenneth C. Davis | E 444 .D36 2016 | ||
| Just a girl: a true story of World War II / Lia Levi | DS 135 .I9 L484413 2022 | ||
| The Nazi hunters / Neal Bascomb | DD 247.E5 B374 2013 | ||
| Overground Railroad / Candacy Taylor | E 185.61 .T225 2022 | ||
| The Port Chicago 50: disaster, mutiny, and the fight for Civil Rights / Steve Sheinkin | D 810.N4 S44 2013 | ||
| Seen and unseen / Elizabeth Partridge | D 769.8 .A6 P365 2022 | ||
| Sir Walter Raleigh and the quest for El Dorado / Marc Aronson | DA 86.22.R2 A76 2000 | ||
| Something rotten: a fresh look at roadkill / Heather L. Montgomery | QL 49 .M79237 2018 | ||
| This promise of change / Jo Ann Allen Boyce | F 444 .C68 B69 2019 | ||
| Titanic: voices from the disaster / Deborah Hopkinson | G 530.T6 H66 2012 | ||
| Twelve days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 / Larry Dane Brimmer | E 185.96 .B82 2017 | ||
| Uprooted: the Japanese American experience during World War II / Albert Marrin | D 769.8 .A6 M329 2016 | ||
| We will not be silent / Russell Freedman | DD 256.3 .F74 2016 |
Sibert Medal
The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal has been awarded annually since 2001 to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in the United States in English during the preceding year. The award is named in honor of Robert F. Sibert, the long-time President of Bound to Stay Bound Books. The Association of Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association, administers the award.
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