Maria's Comet - Hardcover

Loosely based on the childhood of the America's first female astronomer, Maria Mitchell, this book recounts the longing of a young nineteenth-century woman to gaze at the stars through her father's telescope, instead of sewing and cleaning like other girls.

Deborah Hopkinson's most recent book was A Band of Angels, a Junior Library Guild selection that Kirkus hailed as "inspirational." She is also the author of Birdie's Lighthouse, a Parents' Choice Silver Honor awardwinner, and Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, the recipient of the 1994 International Reading Association award. A native of Lowell, Massachusetts, Ms. Hopkinson has degrees from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She now looks for comets with her husband and two children from the wheatfields of Walla Walla, Washington.