Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned the Nation

Candy J. Cooper is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting. She has been a staff writer for four newspapers including the The Detroit Free Press and the San Francisco Examiner. Her work has appeared in the The New York Times, The Columbia Journalism Review and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among other publications. In Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned the Nation (Bloomsbury Children’s Books) Cooper, assisted by writer-editor Marc Aronson, reveals the true story of the poisoned water of Flint, Michigan. Through interviews with residents and intensive research into legal records and news accounts, Poisoned Water shows not just how the crisis unfolded in 2014, but also the history of racism and segregation that led up to it, the beliefs and attitudes that fueled it, and how the people of Flint fought—and are still fighting—for clean water and healthy lives. In a starred review the School Library Journal called it “Thoroughly sourced and meticulously documented, this stomach-churning, blood-boiling, tear-jerking account synthesizes a city’s herculean efforts to access safe, clean water.”

Marc Aronson is an author, editor, publisher, speaker, historian, and book producer. He writes a monthly column for School Library Journal on nonfiction for younger readers, and frequently speaks about boys and reading. His Sir Walter Raleigh and the Quest for El Dorado won the Robert F. Sibert Award for the best in children’s nonfiction, and his books have been selected as a New York Times Notable Book and a School Library Journal best book. In Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned the Nation (Bloomsbury Children’s Books) journalist Candy J. Cooper, assisted by writer-editor Marc Aronson, reveals the true story of the poisoned water of Flint, Michigan. Through interviews with residents and intensive research into legal records and news accounts, Poisoned Water shows not just how the crisis unfolded in 2014, but also the history of racism and segregation that led up to it, the beliefs and attitudes that fueled it, and how the people of Flint fought—and are still fighting—for clean water and healthy lives. In a starred review the School Library Journal called it “Thoroughly sourced and meticulously documented, this stomach-churning, blood-boiling, tear-jerking account synthesizes a city’s herculean efforts to access safe, clean water.”