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Deborah Hopkinson
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Name
Deborah Hopkinson
Role
Writer
Education
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Awards
Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Text, Storyteller Award
Nominations
Jane Addams Chldren's Book Awards for Picture Book
Books
Sweet Clara and the freed, Apples to Oregon, Titanic: Voices from the, Shutting Out the Sky, Abe Lincoln Crosses
Similar People
James E Ransome, Charles Darwin, John Adams
Deborah hopkinson
Deborah Hopkinson is an American writer of children's books, primarily historical fiction, nonfiction and picture books. She was born in Lowell, Massachusetts.
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Selected books
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt (1993)
Maria's Comet (1999)
Pioneer Summer (2002)
Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings (2003)
Shutting Out the Sky (2003)
Apples to Oregon (2004)
Sky Boys (2005)
Into the Firestorm (2006)
Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek (2008)
Keep On! The Story of Matthew Henson, Co-Discoverer of the North Pole (2009)
Titanic: Voices from the Disaster (2012)
The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel (2013)
Steamboat School (2016)
A Letter to my Teacher (2017)
Awards
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt won the International Reading Association Award.
Sky Boys, about the builders of the Empire State Building, was a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Honor book.
Keep On!, about Matthew Henson, won the Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature for 2009/2010.
Titanic: Voices from the Disaster was a Robert F. Sibert Honor book and a YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction finalist.
The Great Trouble, a novel about Dr. John Snow and a cholera outbreak in Victorian London, was an Oregon Book Award finalist and winner of the Oregon Spirit Award.
Steamboat School, about John Berry Meachum and his students, received the 2017 Jane Addams Children's Book Award, given annually to a children's book that advances the causes of peace and social equality.
Two of her books won a Jane Addams Book Honor Award in 2004: Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings about Alta Weiss, for younger readers and Shutting Out the Sky, about immigrants in 1900s New York, for older readers.
Shutting Out the Sky was also an NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book.
