Books by Candace Fleming
Death in the Jungle
by Candace Fleming
🏆 2026 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults
“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...
The Best Young Adult Literature of 2025
Susannah Richards, Teacher
Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera
by Candace Fleming & Eric Rohmann (illustrator)
🏆 2021 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal
Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera is a scientific picture book about the short, busy life of the honeybee. It contains the usual facts that an information book should but also provides food for thought about how we all follow a similar cycle of life and death, and how much work really goes into a spoonful of honey. What lifts this book is the seamless interweaving of the text with the detailed, magnified oil painting illustrations.
Ages 4-8
Interviews where books by Candace Fleming were recommended
The Best Young Adult Literature of 2025, recommended by Susannah Richards
With technology pulling young people in like never before we need to curate books that motivate teenagers to read, argues Susannah Richards, Associate Professor in Education at Eastern Connecticut State University and a specialist in literature for youth. From the large number of new books published for teens and young adults in 2025, she picks five of the best to ignite and delight young readers.
Award-Winning Books for Teens
New books are being published for teens and young adults all the time, but the ones given the most publicity are not always the best. If you don’t have much time to browse or read reviews, it tends to be a safe bet to pick award-winning books for teens that have already been quality checked by judging panels of librarians and other experts.
