The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights (National Book Award Finalist)

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Price
$15.99  $14.87
Publisher
Square Fish
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Pages
208
Dimensions
6.0 X 8.9 X 0.6 inches | 0.8 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781250073495

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About the Author
Steve Sheinkin is the award-winning author of fast-paced, cinematic histories for young readers. He is a three-time National Book Award finalist and two-time winner of the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction. Bomb was a Newbery Honor Book and The Port Chicago 50 won the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award for Nonfiction. His other acclaimed books include The Notorious Benedict Arnold and Most Dangerous. Sheinkin also writes the Time Twisters series. He lives in Saratoga Springs, New York, with his wife and two children.
Reviews

"An impressive work and an inspiring one." --The New York Times

"Sheinkin lets the participants tell the story, masterfully lacing the narrative with extensive quotations drawn from oral histories." --Kirkus, starred review

"Sheinkin's narrative shines." --Booklist, starred review

"Through effective research, Sheinkin re-creates a story that remains largely unknown to many Americans, and is one of the many from World War II about segregation and race that is important to explore with students." --School Library Journal, starred review

"Sheinkin delivers another meticulously researched WWII story, one he discovered while working on his Newbery Honor book, Bomb....Archival photos appear throughout, and an extensive bibliography, source notes, and index conclude this gripping, even horrific account of a battle for civil rights predating Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr." --Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Sheinkin follows Bomb (rev. 11/12) with an account of another aspect of the Second World War, stemming from an incident that seems small in scope but whose ramifications would go on to profoundly change the armed forces and the freedom of African Americans to serve their country." --The Horn Book