Steve Sheinkin is the award-winning author of fast-paced, cinematic nonfiction histories for young readers. The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights, was a National Book Award finalist and received the 2014 Boston Globe/Horn Book Award for Nonfiction. The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery, won both the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award and the YALSA award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults. Bomb: The Race to Build-and Steal-the World's Most Dangerous Weapon was a Newbery Honor Book, a National Book Award Finalist, and winner of the Sibert Award and YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War was a National Book Award finalist, a YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award winner, and a Boston Globe/Horn Book Nonfiction Award winner. Sheinkin lives in Saratoga Springs, New York, with his wife and two children.
Finalist for the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult
Literature
A National Book Award Finalist
Selected for the 2016 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young
People List "Lively, detailed prose rooted in a tremendous amount
of research, fully documented. . . Easily the best study of the
Vietnam War available for teen readers." --Kirkus Reviews, starred
review "Sheinkin has done again what he does so well: condense
mountains of research into a concise, accessible, and riveting
account of history. . . [This book] will keep readers racing
forward." --Publishers Weekly, starred review "Powerful and
thought-provoking." --Booklist, starred review "Fast-paced and
fascinating. . . backed up by meticulous research." --VOYA, starred
review "Thoroughly researched, thoughtfully produced, and
beautifully written . . . a timely and extraordinary addition to
every library." --School & Library Journal, starred review
"Immediate and compelling . . . Here, [Sheinkin] has outdone even
himself." --Horn Book, starred review "A thrilling ride."--Bulletin
of the Center for Children's Books, starred review "Sheinkin's most
compelling one yet." --The Washington Post "Young people in the
United States are growing up in a vastly changed world, one where
endless war and all-pervasive surveillance is a matter of course.
'Most Dangerous' will help them understand how it has become
so."--The New York Times Book Review
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