Books by Deborah Hopkinson

Moving away from his beloved home in Iowa to Oregon, Papa has a hard time saying good-bye to all his fruit trees and so, in addition to his large family, packs up a collection of peach, plum, and apple saplings to plant in his new garden upon his arrival.

Offers the story of a group of freed slaves who became a chorus and gave singing performances of jubilee songs in order to raise money and save their school, the Fisk School. Reprint.

During the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, Billy Bayly and his mother shelter a young Confederate deserter on their Pennsylvania farm, in an easy-to-read story which includes an historical note on the incident. Reprint.

During the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, Billy Bayly and his mother shelter a young Confederate deserter on their Pennsylvania farm, in an easy-to-read story which includes an historical note on the incident.

The diary of a ten-year-old girl who moves with her family in 1855 from a town on the Maine coast to rugged Turtle Island where her father is to be the lighthouse keeper.

For Mags and Cody, summer has always meant long golden days with Gramps and Grandma at the farm on the ridge, where the wheat fields stretch to the horizon and bluebirds sing from the old wood fence.

But now Grandma has died and Gramps is selling off his fields one by one, and the bluebirds -- no longer at home in Grandma's abandoned garden of tangled weeds -- are gone. How can Mags and Cody bring them back, bring everything back?

This rich picture book -- the collaboration of a master storyteller and an immensely gifted artist -- offers readers of all ages hope, comfort, and the renewal that can come with great patience and love.

While Papa is off fighting on the Missouri border, Charlie is left in charge of the family in their remote cabin in Bleeding Kansas and so must keep everyone safe when a fierce prairie blizzard growls and rages outside their door. Simultaneous.

When her mother hires a kitchen assistant, Marcia is unhappy because she has always been the helper, but in time, she realizes that Fannie Farmer is very talented and that she could learn a great deal from her if she became receptive and paid close attention. Jr Lib Guild. Reprint.

When her father takes her to Ohio to try out for a semipro baseball team, seventeen-year-old Alta Weiss is upset to hear that the coach won't even give her a try because she is a girl, but Alta doesn't give up and soon is on the mound throwing pitches that change the skeptical coach's mind. Reprint.

Forced to drop out of school at the age of fourteen to help support her family, Angela, an Italian immigrant, works long hours for low wages in a garment factory, and becomes a participant in the shirtwaist worker strikes of 1909.

Writing down all he learned from cowboys when he was a boy growing up in Texas, John's fascination with these nomadic men continued in his adult years as he took a cross-country trip with his Ediphone recording device to record hundreds of songs sung by cowboys and Gypsies along the way, including "Git Along Little Dogies" and "Sweet Betsy from Pike."

Days after arriving in San Francisco from Texas, eleven-year-old orphan Nicholas Dray tries to help his new neighbors survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the subsequent fires. Reprint.

A biography of the United States' second President highlights his many accomplishments as well as his education at Harvard and early life in Massachusetts. Simultaneous.

After stowing away on a boat to Alaska in the hopes of meeting up with his uncle who is prospecting for gold in the Klondike, Davey has to convince his photographer friend to take him on the next part of the journey and then must find the strength to make it to the top of the treacherous trail in order to complete his long and daring quest. Simultaneous.

In the early 1800s, girls were expected to do nothing but housework. But Maria Mitchell didn't want to be like the other girls--she wanted to look at the stars like her Papa did each night. One night, she had a chance to look through her father's telescope and saw wondrous, beautiful things in the sky. She decided to learn more and later attended Vassar College, then went on to become the first American female astronomer. This book, with lush color illustrations throughout, is loosely based on Maria Mitchell's life.

An inspiring picture-book biography of our First Lady--wife of President Barack Obama; mother of Malia and Sasha; and an elegant, strong, professional, passionate woman who has devoted her life to her community and country. By an award-winning author with artwork by a New York Times best-selling illustrator.

This conclusion to the Prairie Skies trilogy finds Charlie Keller living in rural Kansas. In this story Charlie befriends a runaway slave named Lizzie and helps her continue her flight to freedom in Canada.

Describes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and its aftermath.

When his abolitionist parents decide to move to Kansas territory to help Kansas enter the Union as a free state, Charlie Keller, forced to leave his Massachusetts home and beloved dog behind, must learn to come to terms with prairie life. Simultaneous.

One penny.

In the hot, mean summer of 1933, a penny is enough to buy caramels or red hots or peppermint sticks or licorice strings. Is it enough to buy Miss Elsie's Strawberry Farm?

There's only one way to find out. Davey takes a deep breath and shouts, "One penny for Strawberry Farm!"

Set during the Great Depression, and illustrated by Caldecott Honor artist Rachel Isadora, Saving Strawberry Farm brings Davey's Midwestern town to life as friends and neighbors plan to save the farm the only way they can -- with a secret penny auction!

Traveling back in time to 1930s New York City, a young boy and his father watch in great delight as the magnificent Empire State Building is built through fierce hard work, sheer strength, and incredible dedication by the men who risked their very lives to complete the job.

When frontier-savvy Sal makes her first stagecoach journey alone to deliver the mail for her sick pa, her ma is nervous, but the wild frontier is no match for Sal, and neither is Poetic Pete, the wiliest stagecoach robber in the West.

In addition to learning how to cook and sew, Susan B. Anthony received an education as a child and used it to pursue her political agenda that eventually changed the laws of the land that helped secure women their right to vote, own property, and have jobs of their own. Simultaneous.

A young slave stitches a quilt with a map pattern which guides her to freedom in the North.

Tells of one girl's escape from slavery into freedom via the Underground Railroad, through treacherous terrain and under cover of darkness, in order to reach a home where a special quilt hangs to show that she has reached a safe destination.

Offers the stories of the men, women, and children who worked and toiled in the cotton industry in America, from the sharecroppers to the slaves, through oral histories, archival photos, and informative, fact-filled text about their various jobs, dangerous duties, and harsh working conditions.