Candace Fleming, author portrait
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Candace Fleming

Candace Fleming is the award-winning author of more than fifty books for children and young adults. The recipient of the American Library Association’s Children’s Literature Legacy Award and Margaret A. Edwards Award, she has written many acclaimed nonfiction titles, including Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown, winner of the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award; Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime, which received four starred reviews; The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh, also a YALSA recipient; and The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia, which 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. Her beloved picture books include Giant Squid, a Sibert Honor Book, and Oh, No!, which received three starred reviews.
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

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

Books for Black History Month

In honor of Black History Month this February, we are highlighting essential fiction and nonfiction for students, teachers, and parents to share and discuss this month and beyond. Join Penguin Random House Education in celebrating the contributions of Black authors and illustrators by exploring the titles here: BLACK HISTORY – MIDDLE SCHOOL BLACK HISTORY –

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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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