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• Deborah Hopkinson (Author)

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Subjects

• Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction
• Children: Grades 4-6
• General
• History
• History - United States/19th Century
• Immigrants
• Juvenile literature
• Juvenile Nonfiction
• Juvenile Nonfiction / History / United States / General
• New York
• New York (State)
• Poor
• Social Issues - Homelessness & Poverty
• Sociology - Urban
• Tenement houses
• Urban poor

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Editions

• Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York, 1880-1924 (Jane Addams Honor Book (Awards))
  Orchard, Hardcover, 2003
• Shutting out the Sky. Life in the Tenements of New York 1880-1924.
  Orchard Books, Unknown Binding, 2003
• Shutting out the Sky. Life in the Tenements of New York 1880-1924.
  Orchard Books, Unknown Binding, 2003

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