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Deborah Hopkinson is an American writer of children's books, primarily historical fiction, nonfiction and picture books. She was born in Lowell, Massachusetts.[1]

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.[2]
• Sky Boys, about the builders of the Empire State Building, was a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Honor book.[3]
• 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.[4]
• 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.[4]
• Shutting Out the Sky was also an NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book.[5]
• She received Mathical Honors for The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel.[6]
• Follow the Moon Home won the Green Book Award for children's picture book in 2017, and in 2021 she received the award again for her book Butterflies Belong Here.[7]

See also

References

External links

• Official website
• Deborah Hopkinson at Library of Congress Authorities, with 45 catalog records
• Deborah Hopkinson at Fantastic Fiction

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