Kathryn Lasky

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Kathryn Lasky is the American author of many critically acclaimed books, including several Dear America books, several Royal Diaries books, 1984 Newbery Honor winning Sugaring Time, The Night Journey, and the Guardians of Ga'hoole series. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her latest book, The Golden Tree, was released on February 2, 2007, almost an entire month before the projected release date of March 1. She is married to Christopher Knight and lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

Contents

[edit] List of works

[edit] Children / young adults fiction

[edit] Guardians of Ga'hoole

[edit] Camp Princess

  • Born to Rule

[edit] The Royal Diaries

  • Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor, England 1544
  • Mary, Queen of Scots: Queen Without a Country, France 1553
  • Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France 1769
  • Jahanara: Princess of Princesses, India 1627
  • Kazunomiya: Prisoner of Heaven, Japan 1858

[edit] Dear America

  • Journey to the New World
  • Dreams in the Golden Country
  • Christmas After All
  • A Time for Courage

[edit] My Name is America

  • The Journal of Augustus Pelletier

[edit] My America

  • Hope In My Heart, Sofia's Ellis Island Diary (Book One)
  • Home at Last: Sofia's Immigrant Diary (Book Two)
  • An American Spring: Sofia's Immigrant Diary (Book Three)

[edit] Portraits

  • Dancing Through Fire
  • Starbuck Family Adventure
  • Double Trouble Squared
  • Shadows in the Water
  • A Voice in the Wind

[edit] Stand alone titles

  • The Last Girls of Pompeii
  • Blood Secret
  • Broken Song
  • Star Split
  • Alice Rose and Sam
  • True North
  • Beyond the Burning Time
  • Memoirs of a Bookbat
  • The Bone Wars
  • Pageant
  • Beyond the Divide
  • The Night Journey

[edit] Children / young adults non-fiction

  • John Muir: America's First Environmentalist
  • Interrupted Journey: Saving Endangered Sea Turtles
  • Shadows in the Dawn: The Lemurs of Madagascar'
  • The Most Beautiful Roof in the World
  • Sugaring Time
  • Days of the Dead
  • Searching for Laura Ingalls
  • Monarchs
  • Surtsey: The Newest Place on Earth
  • Dinosaur Dig
  • Traces of Life
  • A Baby for Max

[edit] Picture books

  • Lunch Bunnies
  • Show and Tell Bunnies
  • Science Fair Bunnies
  • Tumble Bunnies
  • Lucille's Snowsuit
  • Lucille Camps In
  • Starring Lucille
  • Pirate Bob
  • Humphrey, Albert, and the Flying Machine
  • Before I was Your Mother
  • The Man Who Made Time Travel
  • A Voice of Her Own: The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet
  • Love That Baby
  • Mommy's Hands
  • Porkenstein
  • Born in the Breezes: The Voyages Of Joshua Slocum
  • Vision of Beauty
  • First Painter
  • The Emperor's Old Clothes
  • Sophie and Rose
  • Marven of the Great North Woods
  • A Brilliant Streak
  • Hercules: The Man, The Myth, The Hero
  • The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
  • She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head!
  • The Gates of the Wind
  • Pond Year
  • Cloud Eyes
  • I Have an Aunt on Marlborough Street
  • Sea Swan
  • My Island Grandma

[edit] Adults

  • Night Gardening (written under the pseudonym of E.L. Swann)
  • Dark Swan
  • Mumbo Jumbo
  • Mortal Words
  • Trace Elements
  • The Widow of Oz

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