Candace Fleming is the prolific and versatile award-winning author of many books for children and young adults. Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown won a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and received eight starred reviews. In addition, School Library Journal praised Murder Among Friends, which received four starred reviews, as a "chilling page-turner." 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.” The Family Romanov also received six starred reviews, 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 many acclaimed picture books include Giant Squid, a Sibert Honor Book. The American Library Association awarded her with the Children's Literature Legacy Award and Margaret A. Edwards Award.
