What inspired you to write The Family Romanov? One reader called it, “The Hunger Games except true.” And there’s love and family tenderness, cruelty and insanity. There’s crazy monks and revolutions and murders. It’s the dramatic, suspenseful, but totally true story of the last tsar of Russia, Nicholas Romanov, and his family. Candy has published The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Schwarz-Wade Random House which is YA nonfiction set in Russia for kids 12 and up. Today I welcome Candace Fleming to World Reads, a blog that features interviews with authors who’ve written a story set outside of the United States for children or young adults.

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'Marrying the intimate family portrait of Heiligman’s Charles and Emma with the politics and intrigue of Sheinkin’s Bomb, Fleming has outdone herself with this riveting work of narrative nonfiction that appeals to the imagination as much as the intellect.Q & A with Candace Fleming: THE FAMILY ROMANOV 'For readers who regard history as dull, Fleming’s extraordinary book is proof positive that, on the contrary, it is endlessly fascinating, absorbing as any novel, and the stuff of an altogether memorable reading experience.' - Booklist, Starred 'An exhilarating narrative history of a doomed and clueless family and empire.' -Jim Murphy, author of Newbery Honor Books An American Plague and The Great Fire

Using captivating photos and compelling first person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming ( Amelia Lost The Lincolns) deftly maneuvers between the imperial family’s extravagant lives and the plight of Russia's poor masses, making this an utterly mesmerizing read as well as a perfect resource for meeting Common Core standards. Here is the tumultuous, heartrending, true story of the Romanovs-at once an intimate portrait of Russia's last royal family and a gripping account of its undoing. we visit the gilded ballrooms of the doomed aristocracy and we pause in the sickroom of little Alexei, the hemophiliac heir who, with his parents and four sisters, would be murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918.” - The Wall Street Journal In these thrilling, highly readable pages, we meet Rasputin, the shaggy, lecherous mystic.

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