The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
by Steve Sheinkin
In the segregated military during World War II, Black sailors were responsible for... read more
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- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Area
- African American
Year Published 2014
Word Count 33,632
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 950L
- ATOS Reading Level: 6.7
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 163116
- Curricular Area
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- 20th century
- Civil rights
- African American sailors--History--20th century--Juvenile literature
- Participation, African American
- World War, 1939-1945
- Port Chicago Mutiny Trial, San Francisco, Cal
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - 20th Century
- United States. Navy--African Americans--History--20th century--Juvenile literature
- Port Chicago Mutiny, Port Chicago, Calif., 19
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, African American--Juvenile literature
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | Military & Wars
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century--Juvenile literature
- Port Chicago Mutiny Trial, San Francisco, Calif., 1944--Juvenile literature
- Port Chicago Mutiny, Port Chicago, Calif., 1944--Juvenile literature
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction
- African Americans
- History
- United States
- Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Topics | Prejudice & Racism
- African American sailors
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Steve Sheinkin about The Port Chicago 50
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Book Readings 2

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Awards & Distinctions 13

Recent Book Award Winners & Honorees
Winner, 2020

Carter G. Woodson Book Award, 1974-2020
Winner, 2015

YALSA Nonfiction Award, 2010-2021
Finalist, 2015

Notable Children's Books, 1995-2020
Commended, 2015

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2020
History, Life, Culture in the Americas Selection, 2015

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2015

ILA Teachers' Choices Reading List, 2015-2020
Selection, 2015

Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, 1967-2020
Winner, 2014

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2020
Selection, 2014

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2020
History Selection, 2014
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