Shutting Out the Sky Life in the Tenements of New York 1880-1924

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.

Info autore

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Deborah Hopkinson, Hopkinson Deborah
• Editore: Scholastic
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 01.10.2003
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Narrativa > Romanzi
• EAN: 9780439375900
• ISBN: 978-0-439-37590-0
• Numero di pagine: 134
• Raccomandazione d'eta': 9 a 12 anni
• Illustrazioni: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 21.1 x 21.6 x 1.5 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 544 g
• Categorie: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Urban communities, Urban communities / city life, Fiction: literary and general non-genre