Death in the Jungle
by Candace Fleming
🏆 2026 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults
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“This is the story of Jim Jones and the community that he brought together that originally started in the United States and eventually moved to Guyana… She does an exceptional job highlighting and providing perspectives, having interviewed some of the very few survivors or people who had first-hand knowledge of the situation. She builds context through narrative, and we get to know some of the people.” Read more...
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