Deborah Hopkinson

Shutting Out the Sky

Life in the Tenements of New York 1880-1924

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In her nonfiction debut, the award-winning author recounts the lives of five young immigrants to New York's Lower East Side through oral histories and engaging narrative.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scholastic Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 134
• Altersempfehlung: 9 bis 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 206mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780439375900
• ISBN-10: 0439375908
• Artikelnr.: 21289925

Autorenporträt

Deborah Hopkinson is the highly acclaimed author of thrilling, accessible, and compelling works of fiction and nonfiction for every reader. She has written over forty award-winning books, including Titanic: Voices from the Disaster, a YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award Finalist and Sibert Honor Book; D-Day: The World War II Invasion That Changed History; We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport, which was a Kids' Book Choice Award Nominee and a Sydney Taylor Notable Book; NCTE/Orbis Pictus Recommended Book, We Must Not Forget; Race Against Death, which School Library Journal called "impactful" in a starred review; and her series for Grades 2-5, The Deadliest, which are action-packed, photo-filled nonfiction titles about disasters throughout history, and the rollicking novel The Plot to Kill a Queen. Deborah lives outside Portland, Oregon.