Marc Aronson has written history and biography books for middle school children and young adults, including books about the secrets of Stonehenge, the sugar trade, and the life of John Henry. His biography of Sir Walter Raleigh won the ALA's first Robert L. Sibert Information Book Award for nonfiction and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. Watch the interview to learn more about him and read a short biography about his life. Includes an interview transcript and a selected list of his books.

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children's literature

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nonfiction writer, marc aronson, reading rockets, history book writer, elementary authors a - c, informational text about history

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional