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2026 BOOKS
My YA adaptation of Ned Blackhawk’s award-winning history The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of US History comes out in November. Details here. A new edition of my adaptation of Ronald Takaki’s history of multicultural America was published earlier in the year.
2025 BOOKS
Two nonfiction books came out in 2025. The Six, a middle-grade version of Loren Grush’s bestseller about the first US women in space, earned multiple starred reviews. I posted about it here and here. Super Navigators, adapted from a fascinating book by David Barrie, is a beautifully illustrated account of what science tells us about how animals find their way in the world. I posted about it here and here.
A FEW EARLIER FAVORITES
In 2009 I had the pleasure and privilege of adapting a landmark book by historian Howard Zinn into A Young People’s History of the United States. This updated second edition was published in 2023. I posted about it here.
