Kristin Sims Levine (born April 22, 1974) is an American novelist who authored The Lions of Little Rock, a New-York Historical Society Children's History Book Prize winner.
[2] Levine has written other historical fictional books, The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had and The Paper Cowboy,[3] which take place during the United States' entry into World War I and McCarthyism era America of the 1950s, respectively.
After rejections by various studios due to the cost of producing a period movie with children, Levine turned it into a novel.
[6] The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had received the following accolades: The Lions of Little Rock was published in 2012 by Penguin Young Readers Group.
The Lions of Little Rock received the following accolades: The Paper Cowboy was published in 2016 by Penguin Young Readers Group.