Dorothy Hoobler

Author of The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn

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About the Author

Dorothy Hoobler is a historian and author of over sixty books, both fiction and nonfiction, mostly for young readers. Her and her husband are the authors of the well-loved American Family Album series, including The Japanese American Family Album, which was named a Carter G. Woodson Honor Book in show more 1997. The Hooblers won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Novel in 2005 with In Darkness, Death. In addition, the Society for School Librarians International chose their book Showa: The Era of Hirohito for a best book award in 1991, and they have been cited for excellence by the Library of Congress, the Parents' Choice Foundation, Bank Street College, the International Reading Association, the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and the New York Public Library. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Includes the names: Dorothy Hoobler, Dorothy Hoobler, Dorothy Hoobler, co-author

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Series

Samurai Detective

American Family Album

The Century Kids

Picture album series

Works by Dorothy Hoobler

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The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn (1999) 803 copies

The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein (2006) 343 copies

Where Are the Great Pyramids? (2015) — Author — 340 copies

The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection (2009) 296 copies

What Was the San Francisco Earthquake? (2016) 206 copies

The Demon in the Teahouse (2001) 203 copies

Where Is the Taj Mahal? (2017) 176 copies

We Are Americans: Voices Of The Immigrant Experience (2003) 167 copies

In Darkness, Death (2004) 143 copies

The Sword That Cut the Burning Grass (1800) 101 copies

A Samurai Never Fears Death (1800) 78 copies

Sign Painters Secret: The Story of a Revolutionary Girl (Her Story) (1991) 75 copies

The Jewish American Family Album (1689) 61 copies

Captain John Smith: Jamestown and the Birth of the American Dream (2005) 57 copies

Confucianism (World Religions) (1993) 53 copies

Seven Paths to Death (1800) 44 copies

The German American Family Album (1996) 43 copies

Frontier Diary (spotlight books) (1974) 40 copies

The Japanese American Family Album (1996) 32 copies

Treasure in the Stream: The Story of a Gold Rush Girl (Her Story) (1991) 31 copies

Real American Girls Tell Their Own Stories: Messages from the Heart and Heartland (1999) 31 copies

The Italian American Family Album (1994) 30 copies

George Washington and President's Day (Let's Celebrate Series) (1990) 30 copies

The Chinese American Family Album (1994) 30 copies

The Irish American Family Album (1995) 29 copies

The Mexican American Family Album (1994) 28 copies

The Young Voyageur (McGraw Hill Adventure Books) (2000) 27 copies

The African American Family Album (1995) 27 copies

The Scandinavian American Family Album (1997) 25 copies

Cleopatra (World Leaders : Past and Present) (1987) 24 copies

The Trail on Which They Wept: The Story of a Cherokee Girl (Her Story) (1992) 21 copies

Stálin (1985) 19 copies

Next Stop Freedom: The Story of a Slave Girl (Her Story) (1991) 18 copies

Sally Bradford: The Story of a Rebel Girl (Her Story) (1997) 18 copies

Julie Meyer: The Story of a Wagon Train Girl (Her Story) (1997) 18 copies

Priscilla Foster: The Story of a Salem Girl (Her Story Series) (1997) 18 copies

A Promise at the Alamo: The Story of a Texas Girl (Her Story) (1991) 17 copies

Florence Robinson: The Story of a Jazz Age Girl (Her Story) (1997) 15 copies

The Cuban American Family Album (1996) 14 copies

The Trenches: Fighting on the Western Front in World War I (1978) 14 copies

Aloha Means Come Back: The Story of a World War II Girl (Her Story) (1991) 12 copies

The 1930s: Directions (Century Kids) (2000) 12 copies

The Voyages of Captain Cook (1983) 12 copies

Summer of Dreams: The Story of a Worlds Fair Girl (1993) 12 copies

An Album of World War I (1976) 11 copies

House Plants (1975) 11 copies

Mandela: The Man, the Struggle, the Triumph (1992) 11 copies

Vegetable gardening & cooking (Grosset good life books) (1975) 10 copies

The First Decade: Curtain Going Up (Century Kids) (2000) 10 copies

The 1960's: Rebels (Century Kids) (2001) 10 copies

An Album of World War II (1977) 10 copies

Vietnam: Why We Fought: An Illustrated History (1990) 10 copies

Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?: Letters of Love and Lust from the White House (2024) 9 copies

Showa: The Age of Hirohito (1990) 9 copies

The Second Decade: Voyages (Century Kids) (2000) 9 copies

Vanity Rules: History of American Fashion and Beauty (2000) 9 copies

The 1980s: Earthsong (Century Kids) (2002) 9 copies

The 1920s: Luck (Century Kids) (2000) 8 copies

Pruning (1975) 8 copies

The Pony Express; Fastest Mail in the West (Adventure Books) (2003) 8 copies

Chinese Portraits (Images Across the Ages) (1993) 7 copies

The 1970s: Arguments (Century Kids) (2002) 7 copies

China (The Regional Studies Series) (1987) 7 copies

And Now, a Word from Our Sponsor: The Story of a Roaring 20's Girl (Her Story) (1992) 7 copies

Photographing History: The Career of Mathew Brady (1977) 7 copies

Zhou Enlai (World Leaders Past and Present) (1986) 6 copies

The Red-Headed Demon (2014) 6 copies

The 1940s: Secrets (Century Kids) (2001) 6 copies

Vanished! (The Fact Or Fiction Files) (1991) 6 copies

The 1950s: Music (Century Kids) (2001) 6 copies

African Portraits (Images Across the Ages) (1993) 6 copies

An Album of the Seventies (1981) 5 copies

The Year in Bloom (1977) 5 copies

Photographing the frontier (1980) 5 copies

What Was The San Fransico Earthquake 5 copies

Italian Portraits (Images Across the Ages) (1993) 5 copies

Japanese Portraits (Images Across the Ages) (1994) 4 copies

The 1990s: Families (The Century Kids) (2002) 4 copies

MARGARET MEAD: A Life in Science (1975) 4 copies

Your Right to Privacy (First Constitution Books) (1986) 4 copies

Nelson and Winnie Mandela (1987) 4 copies

Seven Paths to Death (Samurai Detective) (Volume 6) (2013) 4 copies

Russian Portraits (Images Across the Ages) (1994) 4 copies

Drugs and Crime (Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Drugs Series 2) (1988) 3 copies

Friends in America (2003) 3 copies

The Social Security System (An Impact Book) (1982) 2 copies

Mexican Portraits (Images Across the Ages) (1993) 2 copies

French portraits (1994) 2 copies

The Soviet Union and eastern Europe (Scholastic world cultures) (1991) 2 copies

Chu En-Lai 2 copies

Indoor Gardening: A Compilation of House Plants, Cacti & Succulents, Miniature Gardens and Gardening in Containers (1976) 2 copies

The Fact or Fiction Files: Lost Civilizations (Fact Or Fiction Files) (1992) 2 copies

A New School Experience (2003) 2 copies

U.S. and China Relations Since World War II (1981) 1 copy

South America Portraits (Images Across the Ages) (1994) 1 copy

Samurai Secrets 3: Der Schatten der Ninja 1 copy

The Day of the Rodeo (Adventure Books) (2000) 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Hoobler, Dorothy
Legal name: Hoobler, Dorothy Law
Birthdate: 1941
Gender: female
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Places of residence: Crestwood, New York, USA
Aurora, New York, USA
New York, New York, USA
Education: Wells College (BA|History)
New York University (MA|History)
Occupations: historian
writer
Relationships: Hoobler, Thomas (husband)

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The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft,… by Dorothy Hoobler

It wasn't a badly written book but nevertheless it managed to be somewhat boring.

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dvoratreis | 17 other reviews | May 22, 2024 |

The crimes of Paris : a true story of murder, theft,… by Dorothy Hoobler

They use the Mona Lisa story as a hook, it is a very small portion of the narrative, It doesn't matter, though, because the catalogue of other crimes on order is full and a mini-history of French forensics is provided. Enjoyable read

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cspiwak | 17 other reviews | Mar 6, 2024 |

The crimes of Paris : a true story of murder, theft,… by Dorothy Hoobler

The pacing was strange. The long introduction was a bit of a slog, and spacing the Mona Lisa mystery out as the author did was vaguely frustrating, especially because there wasn't quite enough content to it to justify its prominence in the book. There were lots of interesting anecdotes (like Picasso's involvement in the Mona Lisa affair), the history of the detective novel was pretty interesting, and so was the stuff on the history of criminal identification (from pre-Bertillonage to fingerprints). I'm sure it was tough to get all this to hang together, and the author mostly succeeded. But it was still a choppy read sometimes.… (more)

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caedocyon | 17 other reviews | Feb 23, 2024 |