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2026 Children's Literature Legacy Award Acceptance by Candace Fleming

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By Candace Fleming, Carole Weatherford, Tracy Mack
| The Horn Book Magazine Verified
Let me start with a confession. After the Children’s Literature Legacy Award Committee’s call in January, after I stopped laughing and then stopped crying, I started worrying. Was this some sort of retirement award? Was ALSC handing me the gold watch? I had visions of Claudette McLinn waving me away, saying, “Thirty years and fifty-three books is more than enough.” And me, pleading, “But wait! I’m still writing!” Let me start with a confession.
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The Forgotten War: A World War II Battle on American Soil

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By Candace Fleming, Richard Winters
| School Library Journal Verified
Gr 4-7–A visceral, meticulously researched passion project that uncovers a “forgotten” chapter of World War II—the battle on American soil in the Aleutian Islands. Most history books gloss over Alaska, but Fleming brings the conflict to life through an intimate, soldier-level view from both sides. The narrative primarily follows her father, Charlie Groth, a calm litter-bearer, and Paul Tatsuguchi, a Japanese surgeon whose loyalty was torn between his native land and his American medical training.
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Reviews of the 2026 Boston Globe–Horn Book Nonfiction Award Winner and Honor Books

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By Candace Fleming
| The Horn Book Magazine Verified
Nonfiction Winner A World Without Summer: A Volcano Erupts, a Creature Awakens, and the Sun Goes Out by Nicholas Day; illus. by Yas Imamura Intermediate, Middle School    Random House Studio/Random    304 pp. 9/25    9780593643877    $19.99 On April 10, 1815, on the small Indonesian island of Sumbawa, the volcano Tambora erupted with such explosive force that it changed Earth’s climate and thus the course of human history.
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