LibGuides: Margaret A. Edwards Award: 2020s

2020s

Winner: Steve Sheinkin for Bomb : the Race to Build - and Steal - the World's Most Dangerous Weapon (2012); The Port Chicago 50 : Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights (2014); The Notorious Benedict Arnold : a True Story of Adventure, Heroism, & Treachery (2010); Most Dangerous : Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War (2015); and Lincoln's Grave Robbers (2012).

Bomb : the Race to Build - and Steal - the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

Bomb : the race to build - and steal - the world's most dangerous weapon by Steve Sheinkin
Call Number: YA 623.4 SHE-S (Young adult nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781596434875
Publication Date: 2012-09-04
A gripping narrative of the race between countries, spies, and scientists to create the first atomic bomb.
Bomb [Streaming audiobook] : the race to build - and steal - the world's most dangerous weapon by Steve Sheinkin
Call Number: YA 623.4 SHE-S Audiobk (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780804122214
Publication Date: 2013

The Port Chicago 50 : Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights

The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights by Steve Sheinkin
Call Number: YA 940.54 SHE-S (Young adult nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781596437968
Publication Date: 2014-01-21
The story of 50 black sailors who stood up for their rights and faced mutiny charges during WWII.
The Port Chicago 50 [Streaming audiobook] : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights by Steve Sheinkin
Call Number: YA 940.54 SHE-S Audiobk (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780804167451
Publication Date: 2014

The Notorious Benedict Arnold : a True Story of Adventure, Heroism, & Treachery

The Notorious Benedict Arnold : a true story of adventure, heroism & treachery by Steve Sheinkin
Call Number: YA B ARN-B (Young adult biography)
ISBN: 9781596434868
Publication Date: 2010-11-09
A brilliant strategist for American revolutionaries turns into a traitor.

Most Dangerous : Daniel Ellsbert and the Secret History of the Vietnam War

Most Dangerous : Daniel Ellsberg and the secret history of the Vietnam War by Steve Sheinkin
Call Number: YA 959.7 SHE-S (Young adult nonfiction)
ISBN: 9781596439528
Publication Date: 2015-09-22
The story of Daniel Ellsberg and his decision to steal and publish secret documents about America's involvement in the Vietnam War.

Lincoln's Grave Robbers

Lincoln's Grave Robbers by Steve Sheinkin
Call Number: J-973.8 SHE
ISBN: 9780545405720
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
When counterfeiter Benjamin Boyd is arrested, members of his ring hatch a plot to steal Abraham Lincoln's body to demand Boyd's release and a ransom.

Winner: Kekla Magoon for X : a Novel (co-written with Ilyasah Shabazz) ; How It Went Down ; The Rock and the River ; Fire in the Streets.

X : a Novel

X : a novel by Ilyasah Shabazz; Kekla Magoon
Call Number: J-Fiction SH (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780763669676
Publication Date: 2015-01-06
Malcolm Little's parents have always told him that he can achieve anything, but from what he can tell, that's a pack of lies -- after all, his father's been murdered, his mother's been taken away, and his dreams of becoming a lawyer have gotten him laughed out of school. There's no point in trying, he figures, and lured by the nightlife of Boston and New York, he escapes into a world of fancy suits, jazz, girls, and reefer. But Malcolm's efforts to leave the past behind lead him into increasingly dangerous territory. Deep down, he knows that the freedom he's found is only an illusion -- and that he can't run forever.

How It Went Down

How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon
Call Number: J-Fiction MA (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780805098693
Publication Date: 2014-10-21
When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree.

The Rock and the River

The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon
Call Number: J-Fiction MA (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9781416978039
Publication Date: 2010-04-06
In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party.

Fire in the Streets

Fire in the Streets by Kekla Magoon
Call Number: Juv F MAG (Juvenile fiction)
ISBN: 9781442422315
Publication Date: 2013-08-27
In the aftermath of Dr. King's assassination in 1968, Chicago fourteen-year-old Maxie longs to join the Black Panthers, whether or not her brother Raheem, ex-boyfriend Sam, or her friends like it, and is soon caught up in the violence of anti-war and civil rights demonstrations.

Winner: A. S. King for SW/TCH ; Still Life with Tornado; Ask the Passengers; Glory O'Brien's History of the Future; and Please Ignore Vera Dietz.

Still Life with Tornado

Still Life with Tornado by King, A. S.
Call Number: YA F KIN-AS (Young Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781101994900
Publication Date: 2017-10-03
Sarah can't draw. This is a problem, because as long as she can remember, she has "done the art." She thinks she's having an existential crisis. And she might be right; she does keep running into past and future versions of herself as she explores the urban ruins of Philadelphia. Or maybe she's finally waking up to the tornado that is her family, the tornado that six years ago sent her once-beloved older brother flying across the country for a reason she can't quite recall. After decades of staying together "for the kids" and building a family on a foundation of lies and violence, Sarah's parents have reached the end. Now Sarah must come to grips with years spent sleepwalking in the ruins of their toxic marriage. As Sarah herself often observes, nothing about her pain is remotely original and yet it still hurts.

Ask the Passengers

Ask the Passengers by A. S. King
Call Number: YA F KIN-AS (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780316194679
Publication Date: 2013-09-10
Astrid Jones copes with her small town's gossip and narrow-mindedness by staring at the sky and imagining that she's sending love to the passengers in the airplanes flying high over her backyard. Maybe they'll know what to do with it. Maybe it'll make them happy. Maybe they'll need it. Her mother doesn't want it, her father's always stoned, her perfect sister's too busy trying to fit in, and the people in her small town would never allow her to love the person she really wants to: another girl named Dee. There's no one Astrid feels she can talk to about this deep secret or the profound questions that she's trying to answer. But little does she know just how much sending her love--and asking the right questions--will affect the passengers' lives, and her own, for the better.

Please Ignore Vera Dietz

Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A. S. King
Call Number: YA F KIN-AS (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780375865862
Publication Date: 2010-10-12
When her best friend, whom she secretly loves, betrays her and then dies under mysterious circumstances, high school senior Vera Dietz struggles with secrets that could help clear his name.