The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery by Steve Sheinkin is the
2012 winner of the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults, ages 12 to 18.
YALSA, the Young Adult Library Services Association, is a division of the American Library Association (
ALA). Citing the book as "an illuminating biography," Jennifer Hubert the YALSA Nonfiction Award Chair, praised the author for not only examining Benedict Arnold's life in terms of what happened but also in terms of why it happened. To learn more about the award winner, see teen librarian Jennifer Kendall's review of
The Notorious Benedict Arnold.
(Cover art courtesy of Flash Point/Roaring Brook Press, An Imprint of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group)
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