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Review of The Bletchley Riddle
The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin Middle School, High School Viking 400 pp. 10/24 9780593527542 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780593527566 $10.99 It’s the summer of 1940 in this collaboration between Sepetys (whose historical fiction for older readers includes, recently, I Must Betray You, rev. 5/22) and Sheinkin (primarily...
Blowing the Horn: This Is MAJOR
With Scott Green, Colonial Williamsburg's "Benedict Arnold." Photo courtesy of Steve Sheinkin. Back in June 2011, well before I was making a living as a writer, I got an email from Deirdre Langeland, my editor for The Notorious Benedict Arnold, which had come out the previous fall. The subject line...
The Writer's Page: Walking in Their Footsteps: An Impossible Escape Research Trip
Early on the morning of August 1, 2022, I joined a group of hikers at the gates of what was once the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, and we set off on a six-day, 140-kilometer trek across southern Poland. Within a couple of hours, it became clear that I was in for...
Review of Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Germany
Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Germany by Steve SheinkinMiddle School, High School Roaring Brook 256 pp.8/23 9781250265722 $19.99e-book ed. 9781250265739 $11.99In his latest masterful work of narrative nonfiction, Sheinkin’s (Most Dangerous, rev. 9/15; Fallout, rev. 11/21) tale of suspense is tinged with the physical...
Review of Bomb (Graphic Novel): The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon
Bomb (Graphic Novel): The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin; illus. by Nick BertozziMiddle School, High School Roaring Brook 256 pp.1/23 9781250206732 $24.99Paper ed. 9781250206749 $17.99Sheinkin’s work of award-winning narrative nonfiction (Bomb, rev. 11/12) is here sharpened by the author’s own graphic adaptation—and portrayed through...
Review of Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown
Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown by Steve Sheinkin Middle School, High School Roaring Brook 352 pp. g 9/21 978-1-250-14901-5 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-1-250-14902-2 $10.99 Sheinkin returns to the milieu of his award-winning Bomb: The Race to Build — and Steal — the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon...
Rule Breakers: The Styrofoam Tray Incident
From the May/June 2020 Horn Book Magazine Special Issue: Breaking the Rules. Find more in the "Rule Breakers" series here....
Undefeated: Steve Sheinkin's 2017 BGHB Nonfiction Honor Speech
I always wanted to write a sports story, but it had to be the right one. That is, I wanted a story with edge-of-your-seat action, where you’re rooting so hard you shout at the page. But the story also had to be about something bigger, something more significant than the...
Review of Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team
Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Teamby Steve SheinkinMiddle School, High School Roaring Brook 280 pp.1/17 978-1-59643-954-2 $19.99e-book ed. 978-1-59643-955-9 $9.99Football icon Jim Thorpe is the indisputable star of Undefeated, although other compelling narratives come into play, including those of the infamous...
Most Dangerous: Author Steve Sheinkin's 2016 BGHB NF Award Speech
First of all, I totally agree with what people have said tonight about how incredibly nice and supportive this community of writers is. At a recent book event, I got to sit next to the great cartoonist Roz Chast, and I wanted to say something, get some kind of conversation...
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