Thoughts on Newbery: Ten Books I’d Like to See Recognized this Year

1. Steve Sheinkin’sBomb: The Race to Build–and Steal–the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon. Back in September I wrote in my review that

I was blown away by it. This is nonfiction thriller writing of the very, very best. Sheinkin weaves together the stories of the race to build the atom bomb, the developments in the war that made things more and more urgent, the efforts to steal it, and the efforts to stop others from creating their own.

Every kid I know who reads it adores it. Sheinkin is doing som...