Hopkinson, Deborah

Eel, an orphan, and his best friend Florrie must help Dr. John Snow prove that cholera is spread through water, and not poisonous air, when an epidemic sweeps across their London neighborhood in 1854.

In Knob Creek, Kentucky, in 1816, seven-year-old Abe Lincoln falls into a creek and is rescued by his best friend, Austin Gollaher.

Relates a story from the childhood of author Beatrix Potter during which she borrowed a guinea pig named Queen Elizabeth from her neighbor so she could draw it, but was unable to keep her promise to return the pet unharmed.

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.

A young girl flees from the farm where she has been worked as a slave and uses the Underground Railroad to escape to freedom in the north.

Read about the importance of cotton in America's history and learn about the lives of people who picked it and worked with it.

When a bustling Kansas town is threatened by proslave ruffians, Charlie must be responsible and brave.

When a family decides to move from Iowa to Oregon, they take their fruit trees along to be replanted, and much of the struggle they endure as they travel is spent preserving the trees.

A pioneer father transports his beloved fruit trees and his family to Oregon in the mid-nineteenth century.