Albert Marrin, author portrait

Albert Marrin

Albert Marrin is a much-decorated historian and writer whose most recent book, Terror of the Spanish Main, was called "addictive reading" in The Horn Book. He lives in Riverdale, New York.
When Forests Burn
A Light in the Darkness
A Time of Fear
Very, Very, Very Dreadful
Uprooted
Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy
FDR and the American Crisis
Thomas Paine
Oh Rats!
A Volcano Beneath the Snow
Black Gold
Years of Dust
Old Hickory:Andrew Jackson and the American People

Books

When Forests Burn
A Light in the Darkness
A Time of Fear
Very, Very, Very Dreadful
Uprooted
Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy
FDR and the American Crisis
Thomas Paine
Oh Rats!
A Volcano Beneath the Snow
Black Gold
Years of Dust
Old Hickory:Andrew Jackson and the American People

Penguin Random House ALA Midwinter Award Winners & Honorees for Secondary Education

Last week, the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter announced their 2020 literary award winners and honorees at its annual meeting. Below you can find which Penguin Random House titles appropriate for Middle School and High School students were among the winners. To see which Elementary School titles were honored, click here. Alex Award The Nickel Boys

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