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Deborah Hopkinson

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born

Lowell, Massachusetts, The United States

gender

female

website

http://www.deborahhopkinson.com

genre

Children's Books, Historical Fiction

member since

March 2010

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I am the author of historical fiction picture books, nonfiction, and middle grade fiction. I also review books for Bookpage.com, and work full time as vice president for advancement (that means fundraising!) for Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) here in Portland.

When I'm not writing, doing author visits or presenting at conferences, I love to read and go to the gym. (Any Group Power fans out there?)

My most recent books are The Humblebee Hunter, First Family, Michelle and Stagecoach Sal. I won the 2009 Oregon Book Award for Keep On! The Story of Matthew Henson, Co-Discoverer of the North Pole.

What I'm working on: a picture book about Charles Dickens, a nonfiction book about the Titanic for the 2012 centennial, a novel set in a travel...more

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Average rating: 3.92 · 1,686 ratings · 468 reviews · 47 distinct works

	Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker, New York City 1909 (Dear America Series) 3.94 avg rating — 339 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale by Deborah Hopkinson (Goodreads Author), John Hendrix (Illustrator) 3.91 avg rating — 181 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt (Reading Rainbow Books) by Deborah Hopkinson (Goodreads Author), James Ransome (Illustrator) 4.16 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 1995 — 7 editions	My rating:
	A Boy Called Dickens by Deborah Hopkinson (Goodreads Author), John Hendrix 3.92 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Titanic: Voices From the Disaster 4.12 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Apples To Oregon: Being The (Slightly) True Narrative Of How A Brave Pioneer Father Brought Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Grapes, And Cherries (And Children) Across The Plains by Deborah Hopkinson (Goodreads Author), Nancy Carpenter (Illustrator) 3.97 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Into the Firestorm: A Novel of San Francisco, 1906 4.07 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building by Deborah Hopkinson (Goodreads Author), James E. Ransome (Illustrator) 3.79 avg rating — 67 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Stagecoach Sal by Deborah Hopkinson (Goodreads Author), Carson Ellis (Illustrator) 3.58 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	The Humblebee Hunter: Inspired By The Life and Experiments of Charles Darwin and His Children by Deborah Hopkinson (Goodreads Author), Jen Corace (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.45 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2010	My rating:

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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

by Helen Simonson (Goodreads Author)

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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

by Phillip M. Hoose

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Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream

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Deborah Hopkinson made a comment on Video Sunday: Oye como va?: "Hi! Would that I were talented enough to have written COUNTDOWN, but that honor goes to my friend, Deborah Wiles! All best, Deborah Hopkinson "
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Deborah Hopkinson gave to: The Second Death Of Goodluck Tinubu (Detective Kubu, #2) by Michael Stanley	My rating:
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Deborah Hopkinson made a comment on Jennifer's review of Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale (Introducing His Forgotten Frontier Friend) "When I present this book to kids in schools I ask them to speculate why. Here are some of the reasons: pants are hot in the summer; moms had to make al...more "
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