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Deborah Hopkinson
Deborah Hopkinson, a native of Lowell, Massachusetts, is the award winning author of historical fiction and nonfiction about ordinary and extraordinary people of the past, women’s history, and social justice and environmental issues.

Deborah got her master’s degree and BA from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and worked in academic advancement before becoming a full time writer.

Deborah’s favorite part of being a writer is that they continue to learn. She feels particularly lucky to write historical fiction and nonfiction, so whenever she researches something she is learning something new. Writing also challenges her to solve some new issues, whether she is working on a novel, a picture book, or nonfiction.

While she doesn’t often get writer’s block, she does get stuck at times. Best way to deal with that is to just walk away from her computer to do some other task or even take a walk or have a shower, maybe go grocery shopping. Somehow, a solution to untangle the writing knot seems to always appear.

Deborah comes up with things to write about by reading all kinds of different things. Sometimes she gets ideas just by going to museums or watching documentaries and films. She typically has a lot more ideas for potential books which never make it onto the page.

“Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt” won the International Reading Association Award. “Sky Boys” was a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor book. “Keep On!” won the Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children’s Literature for 2009/2010. “Titanic: Voices from the Disaster” was a YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction finalist and a Robert F. Sibert Honor book.

“The Great Trouble” won the Oregon Spirit Award. “Steamboat School” was the recipient of the 2017 Jane Adams Children’s Book Award, an award she won twice in 2004, for “Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings” and “Shutting Out the Sky”. “Shutting Out the Sky” also won an NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book. “Follow the Moon Home” won the Green Book Award for children’s picture book in 2017, and in 2021 “Butterflies Belong Here won the award again. She received the Mathical Honors for “The Great Trouble”.

“Pioneer Summer” is the first novel in the “Prairie Skies” series and was released in 2002. Westward Ho! Congress has ruled that the settlers in Kansas Territory are going to decide if Kansas will enter the Union as a slave or free state. Charlie Keller’s papa is an abolitionist, and he is moving the family to Kansas in order for him to cast his vote for freedom.

Momma and Papa, big sister Ida Jane, and even baby Sophie, seem to be excited about being pioneers. But not Charlie. Why couldn’t they remain back home in Massachusetts with Grandpa and Danny (Charlie’s beloved old dog) who’s too old to make this trip?

Turning the wild Kansas prairie into a farm is rather hard work, filled with dangers and worries. Is Kansas ever going to feel like a home to Charlie?

“Sailing for Gold” is the first novel in the “Klondike Kid” series and was released in 2003. Gold Rush! July 1897 in Seattle. Ever since Davey’s mom died, he’s had this secret plan: save up enough of his money in order to run away to Alaska to find the only relative he’s got, his Uncle Walt. Nobody’s going to stop him, not even mean Mrs. Tinker, who owns the Seattle boarding house where Davey lives and works.

Davey is convinced that he’ll find his uncle in the Klondike, after gold is found is found there. However Davey’s money vanishes, and with it his hopes of tracking down his uncle. That is, until Davey hatches a new, and much more dangerous plan.

“Into the Firestorm” is the first stand alone novel and was released in 2006. ‘I believe I can see you on the streets of that bright city’.

Gran may now be gone, however her words live on with Nicholas Dray, who is almost twelve, while he makes his way out of the hot cotton fields to that Queen of Cities: San Francisco. Nick is on his own for the very first time, without anywhere to turn. Then he meets talkative and jaunty Pat Patterson, the owner of the most beautiful store, as well as the friendliest dog, in the whole city. And for the first time in months now, he feels safe. Safe in San Francisco.

However the year is 1906, the month is April, and an early morning the walls start shaking. The floor starts buckling. The earth opens up. A devastating earthquake and then some raging firestorms ravage this city, and Nick is right in the middle of all of it. However for this young boy who has got few ties and not much to lose, what is the right decision: escape to safety or just stay, at a deadly risk, in order to help others?

From Deborah Hopkinson comes this carefully researched and suspenseful book of the Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire and about one boy’s heroic struggle to survive it.

“How I Became a Spy” is the first novel in the “Mystery of WWII London” series and was released in 2019. A story of survival, espionage, and friendship during the Second World War.

Bertie Bradshaw never intended on becoming a spy. He never imagined traipsing around war torn London, practicing surveillance, solving ciphers, and searching for the traitor to the Allied forces. Certainly never expected that one strong willed American girl called Eleanor would play Watson to his Holmes (or Holmes to his Watson, depends on who you ask).

However when a young woman disappears, only leaving behind a coded notebook, Bertie is determined to solve this mystery. With help from Eleanor and his buddy David, a Jewish refugee, and, obviously Little Roo, his trusty pup, Bertie’s got to decipher this notebook in time to keep a double agent from spilling the biggest secret there is to the Nazis.

This suspenseful WWII adventure reminds us about how times of war call for brains, teamwork, and bravery, from even the most unlikely of heroes.