Candace Fleming, author portrait
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Candace Fleming

Candace Fleming is the prolific and versatile award-winning author of many books for children and young adults. Her most recent title, The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh, received six starred reviews, was a Kirkus, PW, Booklist, and SLJ Best Book of the Year, and was hailed by the Wall Street Journal as a "fascinating chronicle." Candace's The Family Romanov also received six starred reviews and won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was recognized as a Sibert Nonfiction Honor Book. Amelia Lost received four starred reviews and won the Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction. Her many acclaimed picture books include Giant Squid, a Sibert Honor Book. Visit her on the web at candacefleming.com.
Death in the Jungle
Murder Among Friends
The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh
Amelia Lost
Eleanor Roosevelt's in My Garage!
The Amazing Collection of Joey Cornell: Based on the Childhood of a Great American Artist
Strongheart: Wonder Dog of the Silver Screen
Ben Franklin's in My Bathroom!
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P. T. Barnum

Tue Aug 19 | 05:30 PM
Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts
2904 College Ave
Berkeley, CA 94705
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Books

Death in the Jungle
Murder Among Friends
Fatal Throne: The Wives of Henry VIII Tell All
The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh
Amelia Lost
Eleanor Roosevelt's in My Garage!
The Amazing Collection of Joey Cornell: Based on the Childhood of a Great American Artist
Strongheart: Wonder Dog of the Silver Screen
Ben Franklin's in My Bathroom!
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P. T. Barnum

Events

Tue Aug 19 | 05:30 PM
Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts
2904 College Ave
Berkeley, CA 94705
Google Map

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

The American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter announced their 2021 literary award winners and honorees at its virtual 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. Printz Honor Every Body Looking

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Author Essay: The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh by Candace Fleming

Charles Lindbergh: Comparing the Past to the Present It began with the Lindbergh baby kidnapping.  That was the story I originally intended to tell.  But as I began corralling my research, the dominant personality that was Charles Lindbergh soon overshadowed everything and everyone else.  He was so complicated, so contradictory, so compelling.  To me, he

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