New Releases by Deborah Hopkinson

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

As a young boy, Charles Darwin hated school and was often scolded forconducting “useless” experiments. Yet his passion for the natural world was so strong that he suffered through terrible seasickness during his five-year voyage aboard The Beagle. Darwin collected new creatures from the coasts of Africa, South America, and the Galapagos Islands, and expanded his groundbreaking ideas that would change people''s understanding of the natural world. About 100 illustrations and a clear, exciting text will make Darwin and his theory of evolution an exciting discovery for every young reader.

During the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, a mother and son shelter a young Confederate deserter.

This reader chronicles the life of John Adams, the second president of the newly formed United States. Full color.

This moving picture book tells the story of one pioneer girl''s determination to scratch out a garden on the frontier, and to give her mother something the whole family wants: a place that feels like home. Full color.

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.

December 1, 1855 The sea is never still. Sometimes it roars so load that it drowns our voices. Mama says there hasn''t been a storm this fierce since the night I was born. She thinks it too dangerous for me to go to the tower again. Yet what else can I do? I''m the lightkeeper now. On the tiny lighthouse island that is her family''s new home, Birdie faithfully keeps a journal. She writes down everthing: the change of seasons, the rhythms of the sea, and all that her father, the lightkeeper, is teaching her. But then one stormy night, her father is taken ill. And only Birdie knows how to keep the lighthouse''s strong beam running. Will she be brave enough to guide the boats safely into harbor?