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Through the moving and often heart-wrenching personal accounts of Kindertransport survivors, critically acclaimed and award-winning author Deborah Hopkinson paints the timely and devastating story of how the rise of Hitler and the Nazis tore apart the lives of so many families an...d what they were forced to give up in order to escape.
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A book about loggerhead sea turtles, and a girl's attempts to help save their babies from man-made light. --
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An introduction to the life and accomplishments of the nineteenth-century British naturalist Charles Darwin.
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Hopkinson and Ford capture the inspiring story of the first African-American First Lady, in this beautiful picture-book biography. Full color.
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A letter from someone who was once an exasperating second-grader reveals her experiences with a teacher who brought out the best in her.
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From Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Gloria Steinem and Hillary Clinton, women throughout US history have fought for equality. Author Deborah Hopkinson chronicles the beginning of the movement in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when women were demandi...ng the right to vote. She explores the 1960s, which pushed equal rights and opportunities for women-both at home and in the workplace-even farther, and then moves toward present-day events, including the Women's March that took place all across the United States in 2017. Celebrate how far women have come with this inspiring read!
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Recounting tales of spying, murder, missing children, and lost treasure, Hopkinson reveals the inside story on the famous fortress in the heart of Moscow that has withstood fires, invaders, and revolutions for almost 700 years. Includes a fold-out map. Original.
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Illustrations and easy-to-read text observe a young girl as she and her family practice mindfulness through a busy Saturday.
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From an award-winning author of historical fiction comes a story of survival, crime, adventure, and horses in the streets of 19th century New York City.Eleven-year-old Rocco is an Italian immigrant who finds himself alone in New York City after he's sold to a padrone by his pover...ty-stricken parents. While working as a street musician, he meets the boys of the infamous Bandits' Roost, who teach him the art of pickpocketing. Rocco embraces his new life of crime-he's good at it, and it's more lucrative than banging a triangle on the street corner. But when he meets Meddlin' Mary, a strong-hearted Irish girl who's determined to help the horses of New York City, things begin to change. Rocco begins to reexamine his life-and take his future into his own hands.
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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, what...ever the cost to himself.
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