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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
Clever Jack Takes the Cake
Narwhal
Strongheart: Wonder Dog of the Silver Screen
Mine!
Murder Among Friends
The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh
Amelia Lost
Oh, No!
Imogene's Last Stand
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
The Fabled Fifth Graders of Aesop Elementary School
The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P. T. Barnum
The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School

Books

Death in the Jungle
Clever Jack Takes the Cake
Narwhal
Strongheart: Wonder Dog of the Silver Screen
Mine!
Murder Among Friends
Fatal Throne: The Wives of Henry VIII Tell All
The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh
Amelia Lost
Oh, No!
Imogene's Last Stand
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
The Fabled Fifth Graders of Aesop Elementary School
The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P. T. Barnum
The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School

Mine!

This rhythmic read-aloud about sharing by an award-winning author and a Caldecott medalist features a series of hilariously selfish forest animals. In a tall, tall tree, at the tip-tippy top, hangs a single red apple… Along skirts Mouse. “An apple!” she squeaks, “How divine! When it tumbles to the ground, it’ll all be mine!” And so it

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Mine!