Steve Sheinkin. Roaring Brook/Flash Point, $19.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-59643-487-5
In his highly readable storytelling style, Sheinkin (The Notorious Benedict Arnold) weaves together tales of scientific and technological discovery, back-alley espionage, and wartime sabotage in a riveting account of the race to build the first...
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Steve Sheinkin. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-545-40572-0
This meticulous and tremendously suspenseful account of the attempted heist of Abraham Lincoln’s body in 1876 reads like a smartly cast fictional crime thriller, with a skillful buildup of tension and sharp character portrayals. Sheinkin (Bomb) lays
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Steve Sheinkin. Roaring Brook, $19.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-59643-796-8
Sheinkin delivers another meticulously researched WWII story, one he discovered while working on his Newbery Honor book, Bomb. The accidental explosion at Port Chicago, a California Navy base where African-American servicemen loaded ammunition onto...
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Steve Sheinkin. Roaring Brook, $19.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-59643-952-8
Sheinkin (The Port Chicago 50) has done again what he does so well: condense mountains of research into a concise, accessible, and riveting account of history. This time he focuses on the turbulent Vietnam War era, using as his lens Daniel Ellsberg,
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Steve Sheinkin, illus. by Neil Swaab. Roaring Brook, $13.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-250-14891-9
Sheinkin (Undefeated) kicks off the Time Twisters series with two titles, including this lively Abraham Lincoln–themed romp. When stepsiblings Doc and Abby express their distaste for learning about history, Lincoln himself emerges from a cardboard...
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Steve Sheinkin, illus. by Neil Swaab. Roaring Brook, $13.99 (176p) ISBN 978-1-250-14899-5
In this addition to Sheinkin’s effervescent series, nine-year-old protagonists Abby and Doc are exhausted from their journeys through history via cardboard box time machine. But when Abby’s glasses get mixed up with Amelia Earhart’s goggles, she...
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Steve Sheinkin, read by Dominic Hoffman. Listening Library, 4 hrs., $27 ISBN 978-0-8041-6742-0
An explosion that killed nearly 300 soldiers in Port Chicago, Calif., during World War II played an essential role in the battle for civil rights, especially in the desegregation of the military. Sheinkin explores the lives of the segregated African-
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Steve Sheinkin, Author, Steve Sheinkin, Illustrator . Jewish Lights $16.99 (123p) ISBN 978-1-58023-310-1
Sheinkin's tales of Rabbi Harvey, wisest rebbe
in the Wild West, are not quite the fish-out-of-water yarns you might expect. That's mainly because, despite the setting (the fictitious town of Elk Spring, Colo., circa 1870), nearly everyone...
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Steve Sheinkin. Roaring Brook, $19.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-14901-5
This twisty spy story interweaves tautly paced political drama to document the perilous Cold War period and escalating conflict between the United States and Soviet Union. Newbery Honoree Sheinkin immediately hooks readers with an account of how a...
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Steve Sheinkin. Roaring Brook, $19.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-25026-572-2
In striking detail, Sheinkin (Fallout) chronicles how, in June 1944, 19-year-old Rudi Vrba, together with 24-year-old Alfred Wexler, both Slovakian Jewish, were the first to reveal to the world the then-hidden Nazi atrocities occurring in Auschwitz.
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Steve Sheinkin, illus. by Bijou Karman. Roaring Brook, $19.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-62672-130-2
In this riveting account, Newbery Honor author Sheinkin (Bomb) introduces 20 American pilots who flew in the 1929 Women’s Air Derby, from Santa Monica, Calif., to Cleveland, Ohio. How the women deftly handled weather, accidents, fires, exhaustion,...
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Yukie Kimura, Kōdo Kimura, and Steve Sheinkin, illus. by Kōdo Kimura. Roaring Brook, $19.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-2502-0650-3
A lighthouse keeper’s family leads a magical life on a beautiful island until the interruption of war in this luminously illustrated collaboration from the Kimuras, a parent/child team, and Sheinkin. Eight-year-old narrator Yukie enjoys helping in...
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Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin. Viking, $18.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-59352-754-2
This dynamic collaboration from Sepetys (I Must Betray You) and Sheinkin (Impossible Escape), set in May 1940, is marked by swift, snappy, and suspenseful storytelling narrated by Polish Jewish siblings Jakob and Lizzie. Nineteen-year-old Jakob has...
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