Hopkinson, Deborah

A fictional story based on real events and people. In 1871, in a desperate attempt to save Fisk school, a school offering college classes to former slaves, a music teacher named George White set out with a group of students on a singing tour to raise money. This group soon became famous for introducing spirituals to the world.

When Charlie and Papa arrive in Lawrence for supplies, they find the bustling Kansas town threatened by border ruffians from proslave Missouri.

Congress has ruled that settlers in Kansas Territory will decide whether Kansas will enter the Union as a free or a slave state.

Papa is in danger for helping to rescue a free-state settler who was unjustly arrested by Kansas's proslavery sheriff.

Photographs and text document the experiences of five individuals who came to live in the Lower East Side of New York City as children or young adults from Belarus, Italy, Lithuania, and Romania at the turn of the twentieth century.

Draws on stories from survivors and archival photographs to describe the history of the "Titanic" from its launch to its sinking.

A boy who hates being a slave joins the Union Army to fight for freedom, and proves himself brave and capable of handling a mule team when the need arises.

The daughter of a slave forms a gospel singing group and goes on tour to raise money to save Fisk University.

When his father leaves to fight in World War I, Mikey joins the Central Park Knitting Bee to help knit clothing for soldiers overseas.