Bound To Stay Bound

Annie and Helen by Hopkinson, Deborah 

BTSB Prebound(Schwartz & Wade Books, 2012)

BTSB #: 463363 Available

Dewey: 362.4/CAges: 4-8   
AR: 5.4 LG RC: 7.3 3-5 Lexile: 800 F&P: S

Genres:

Subjects: Keller, Helen,|d1880-1968 Sullivan, Annie,|d1866-1936 Blind Deaf People with disabilities Women - Biography

Summary: A nonfiction portrait of the relationship between Annie Sullivan and Helen Keller.

Bandit's tale : the muddled misadventures of a pickpocket by Hopkinson, Deborah 

BTSB Prebound(Knopf, 2016)

BTSB #: 463358 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.1 MG RC: 4.5 6-8 Lexile: 740 F&P: W

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Conduct of life - Fiction Child labor - Fiction Child abuse - Fiction Immigrants - Fiction Italians - New York (State) - New York - Fiction Animals - Treatment - Fiction New York (N.Y.) - History|y19th century - Fiction

Summary: 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.

Butterflies belong here : a story of one idea, thirty kids, and a world of butterflies by Hopkinson, Deborah 

BTSB Prebound(Chronicle Books, 2020)

BTSB #: 463347 Available

Dewey: EAges: 5-8   
Lexile: 780 F&P: N

Genres: Animals

Subjects: Monarch butterflies - Fiction Butterfly gardens - Fiction Butterflies - Fiction Immigrants - Fiction Self-confidence - Fiction

Summary: An immigrant girl explains how she learned English by reading about Monarch butterflies, and how, troubled by their decline, she got her classmates and neighbors together to build a butterfly garden.

Carter reads the newspaper by Hopkinson, Deborah 

BTSB Prebound(Peachtree, 2019)

BTSB #: 463349 Available

Dewey: 973/BAges: 6-9   
AR: 4.5 LG Lexile: 810 F&P: P

Genres:

Subjects: Woodson, Carter Godwin,|d1875-1950 African American historians - Biography Historians - United States

Summary: A picture book biography of Carter G. Woodson, father of Black History Month, and what prompted him to push for the recognition of Black History.

D-Day : the WWII invasion that changed history by Hopkinson, Deborah 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Focus, 2018)

BTSB #: 463350 Available

Dewey: 940.54/NAges: 13-18   
AR: 7.9 MG RC: 9.5 9-12 Lexile: 1060

Genres:

Subjects: Operation Overlord World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - France - Normandy Normandy (France) - Military history

Summary: The WWII invasion known as D-Day was the largest military endeavor in history. The goal of D-Day was no less than the total defeat of Hitler's regime--and the defense of free democracies everywhere.

How I became a spy : a mystery of WWII London by Hopkinson, Deborah 

BTSB Prebound(Knopf, 2019)

BTSB #: 463399 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.6 MG Lexile: 630 F&P: X

Genres: Historical Fiction Mystery Fiction

Subjects: Spies - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - Great Britain - Fiction Mystery fiction London (England) - Fiction

Summary: 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. But when a young woman goes missing, leaving behind a coded notebook, Bertie is determined to solve the mystery.

Independence Cake : a revolutionary confection inspired by Amelia Simmons, whose true history is unfortunately unknown by Hopkinson, Deborah 

BTSB Prebound(Schwartz & Wade Books, 2017)

BTSB #: 463397 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
AR: 4.5 LG Lexile: 780 AD F&P: P

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Simmons, Amelia - Fiction Cooks - Fiction Cake - Fiction United States - History|y1783-1815 - Fiction

Summary: In this fictional story, Amelia Simmons, writer of the first American cookbook, creates an Independence Cake in 1789 to offer the newly elected President, George Washington.

Letter to my teacher by Hopkinson, Deborah 

BTSB Prebound(Schwartz & Wade Books, 2017)

BTSB #: 463476 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
AR: 3.4 LG Lexile: 620 AD F&P: N

Genres:

Subjects: Teachers - Fiction School stories Human behavior - Fiction Letters - Fiction

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

Ordinary, extraordinary Jane Austen : the story of six novels, three notebooks, a writing box, and one clever girl by Hopkinson, Deborah 

BTSB Prebound(HarperCollins, 2018)

BTSB #: 463352 Available

Dewey: 823/BAges: 4-8   
AR: 4.9 LG

Genres:

Subjects: Austen, Jane,|d1775-1817 English authors

Summary: A picture book biography of Jane Austen, one of the most beloved writers of all time.

Steamboat school by Hopkinson, Deborah 

BTSB Prebound(Disney/Hyperion, 2016)

BTSB #: 463394 Available

Dewey: EAges: 6-8   
AR: 4.2 LG RC: 2.8 K-2 Lexile: 660 AD

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural

Subjects: Meachum, John B.,|d1789- - Fiction Education - Fiction African Americans - Fiction

Summary: In 1847 St. Louis, Missouri, when a new law against educating African Americans forces Reverend John to close his school, he finds an ingenious solution to the new state law by moving his school to a steamboat in the Mississippi River. Includes author's note on Reverend John Berry Meachum, a minister, entrepreneur, and educator who fought tirelessly for the rights of African Americans.

Thanks to Frances Perkins : fighter for workers' rights by Hopkinson, Deborah 

BTSB Prebound(Peachtree, 2020)

BTSB #: 463401 Available

Dewey: 331/BAges: 6-9   
Lexile: 900 F&P: P

Genres:

Subjects: Perkins, Frances,|d1880-1965 United States.|bDepartment of Labor Women - Biography Women cabinet officers - Biography Labor supply

Summary: A biography of Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor in the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the first woman cabinet member.

We had to be brave : escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport by Hopkinson, Deborah 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Focus, 2020)

BTSB #: 463400 Available

Dewey: 940.53/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 7.5 UG Lexile: 990

Genres:

Subjects: Holocaust, 1939-1945 Kindertransports (Rescue operations) Jewish refugees - Great Britain Refugee children - Great Britain - History|y20th century Jewish children - Great Britain - History|y20th century Jewish children - Germany - History|y20th century World War, 1939-1945 - Jews - Rescue

Summary: Through the moving and often heart-wrenching personal accounts of Kindertransport survivors, the timely and devastating story of how the rise of Hitler and the Nazis tore apart the lives of so many families and what they were forced to give up in order to save these children.