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A Bandit's Tale
By Deborah Hopkinson
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. Fiction. 290 pages.

In March of 1887, Rocco, an eleven-year-old from an Italian village, arrives in New York City where he is forced to live in squalor and beg for money as a street musician, but he finds the city's cruelty to children and animals intolerable and sets out to make things better, whatever the cost to himself. -- Editor

By Deborah Hopkinson
New York: Scholastic Press, 2023. Fiction. 210 pages.

In 1582 thirteen-year-old Emilia Bassano is a lute player and aspiring playwright who stumbles on a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth, and is recruited by Sir Francis Walsingham to go to the castle where Mary Queen of Scots is being held and discover who is responsible for the plot. --Editor

By Deborah Hopkinson
New York: Scholastic Focus, 2023. Fiction. 289 pages.

In WWII, US troops, along with thousands of Filipino soldiers who fought alongside them, were overtaken in the Philippines by a fiercely determined Japanese navy, and many Americans and Filipino fighters were killed or captured. These American and Filipino prisoners of war were forced to endure the most horrific conditions on the deadly trek known as the Bataan Death March. Unable to forget their comrades' fate and concerned that these POWs would be brutally murdered as the tides of war shifted in the Pacific, US Army Rangers undertook one of the most daring and dangerous rescue missions of all time. --Publisher

By Deborah Hopkinson
New York: Scholastic Press, 2012. Informational. 289 pages.

This book weaves together the voices and stories of real Titanic survivors and witnesses to the disaster--from the stewardess Violet Jessop to Captain Arthur Rostron of the Carpathia, who came to the rescue of the sinking ship. Packed with heartstopping action, devastating drama, fascinating historical details, loads of archival photographs on almost every page, and quotes from primary sources, this gripping story, which follows the Titanic and its passengers from the ship's celebrated launch at Belfast to her cataclysmic icy end, is sure to thrill and move readers. --Editor

By Deborah Hopkinson
Scholastic Focus, 2003. Informational.

Award-winning author Deborah Hopkinson focuses on five immigrants' stories to reveal the triumphs and hardships of early 1900s immigrant life in New York's Lower East Side through oral histories and engaging narrative. --Editor

By Deborah Hopkinson
New York: Scholastic Focus, 2020. Informational. 341 pages.

Under the Nazi Party, Jewish families like Ruth's experienced rising anti-Semitic restrictions and attacks. Just going to school became dangerous. By November 1938, anti-Semitism erupted into Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, and unleashed a wave of violence and forced arrests. Days later, desperate volunteers sprang into action to organize the Kindertransport, a rescue effort to bring Jewish children to England. Young people like Ruth David had to say good-bye to their families, unsure if they'd ever be reunited. --Publisher

By Deborah Hopkinson
New York: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2019. Fiction. 264 pages.

Bertie Bradshaw never set out to become a spy. He never imagined traipsing around war-torn London, solving ciphers, practicing surveillance, and searching for a traitor to the Allied forces. He certainly never expected that a strong-willed American girl named Eleanor would play Watson to his Holmes (or Holmes to his Watson, depending on who you ask). But when a young woman goes missing, leaving behind a coded notebook, Bertie is determined to solve the mystery. With the help of Eleanor and his friend David, a Jewish refugee--and, of course, his trusty pup, Little Roo--Bertie must decipher the notebook in time to stop a double agent from spilling the biggest secret of all to the Nazis. --Publisher

Written by Deborah Hopkinson
Illustrated by Hadley Hooper
New York: Holiday House, 2021. Picture Book.

A child struggles to write a story until he finds inspiration outside his window. --Editor

Written by Deborah Hopkinson
Illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky
New York: Anne Schwartz Books, 2023. Picture Book.

A modern-day retelling of Cinderella narrated by the mouse who becomes Cinderella's stage coach. --Editor

Written by Deborah Hopkinson
Illustrated by Nancy Carpenter
New York: Schwartz & Wade Books, 2017. Picture Book.

A letter from someone who was once an exasperating second-grader reveals her experiences with a teacher who brought out the best in her. --Editor
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