Deborah Hopkinson

Selected books

• Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
• Maria's Comet
• Pioneer Summer
• Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings
• Shutting Out the Sky
• Apples to Oregon
• Sky Boys
• Into the Firestorm
• Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek
• Keep On! The Story of Matthew Henson, Co-Discoverer of the North Pole
• Titanic: Voices from the Disaster
• The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel
• Steamboat School
• A Letter to my Teacher

  Awards

• Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt won the International Reading Association Award.
• Sky Boys, about the builders of the Empire State Building, was a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Honor book.
• Keep On!, about Matthew Henson, won the Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature for 2009/2010.
• Titanic: Voices from the Disaster was a Robert F. Sibert Honor book and a YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction finalist.
• The Great Trouble, a novel about Dr. John Snow and a cholera outbreak in Victorian London, was an Oregon Book Award finalist and winner of the Oregon Spirit Award.
• Steamboat School, about John Berry Meachum and his students, received the 2017 Jane Addams Children's Book Award, given annually to a children's book that advances the causes of peace and social equality.
• Two of her books won a Jane Addams Book Honor Award in 2004: Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings about Alta Weiss, for younger readers and Shutting Out the Sky, about immigrants in 1900s New York, for older readers.
• Shutting Out the Sky was also an NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book.