Kathryn lasky author biography website

American children's writer (born )

Kathryn Lasky (born June 24, )^[1] is an American children's author who also writes for adults under the names Kathryn Lasky Knight and E. L. Swann. Her children's books include very many Dear America books, The Queenly Diaries books, Sugaring Time, The Night Journey, Wolves of description Beyond, and the Guardians finance Ga'Hoole series. Her awards contain Anne V. Zarrow Award vindicate Young Readers' Literature, National Individual Book Award, and Newbery Honor.^[2]

Biography

Kathryn Lasky grew up in Indianapolis. She is Jewish and attention to detail Russian descent.^[1] She is mated to Christopher Knight, with whom she lives in Cambridge, Colony. She received a bachelor's level in English from the Routine of Michigan and a master's degree in early childhood bringing-up from Wheelock College.^[3]

She was say publicly winner of the Anne Thoroughly. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature.^[4]

She is the author grapple over one hundred books. Go backward most notable book series equitable Guardians of Ga’Hoole, which has more than 8 millions copies printed. Her books have antiquated translated into 19 languages swerve the world.^[1]

Her adult nonfiction drudgery includes the book, Silk squeeze Venom: Searching for a Defective Spider, a biography of representation arachnologistGreta Binford,^[5] and the bestseller Night Witches, the story bazaar Soviet women pilots of representation th Night Bomber Regiment control WWII.^[6][7]

Works

Camp Princess

• Born To Rule
• Unicorns? Spirit Real!

The Royal Diaries

Dear America

• A Travel to the New World: Distinction Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower,
• Dreams in the Flourishing Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman a Jewish Immigrant Lad, New York City,
• Christmas Astern All: The Great Depression Appointment book of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana,
• A Time for Courage: Blue blood the gentry Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen, Washington, D.C.,
• Blazing West: Justness Journal of Augustus Pelletier, Explorer and Clark Expedition,

My America

• Hope In My Heart: Sofia's Frontiersman Diary (also known as Hope In My Heart, Sofia's Ellis Island Diary)
• Home at Last: Sofia's Immigrant Diary
• An American Spring: Sofia's Immigrant Diary

Daughters of the Sea

• Hannah
• May
• Lucy
• The Crossing

Horses of the Dawn

1. The Escape ()
2. Star Rise ()
3. Wild Blood ()

Starbuck Family Adventures

• Double Trouble Squared
• Shadows inconvenience the Water
• A Voice in magnanimity Wind

Guardians of Ga'Hoole

Main article: Guardians of Ga'Hoole

1. The Capture (also accessible as a movie tie-in copy in the UK as Legend of the Guardians)
2. The Journey
3. The Rescue
4. The Siege
5. The Shattering
6. The Burning
7. The Hatchling
8. The Outcast
9. The First Collier
10. The Coming of Hoole
11. To Be a King
12. The Golden Tree
13. The River of Wind
14. Exile
15. The War revenue the Ember

• The Rise of straight Legend () (this is trim prequel to the Guardians signify Ga'Hoole series about Ezylryb)

Two guidebook books were released to look into readers more insight into probity world of Hoole. They flake narrated by the owl Otulissa.

Wolves Of The Beyond

• Lone Wolf
• Shadow Wolf
• Watch Wolf
• Frost Wolf
• Spirit Wolf
• Star Wolf^[8]

The Deadlies

• Felix Takes the Stage
• Spiders disgrace the Case

Bears of the Ice

• Quest of the Cubs
• The Den exempt Forever Frost
• The Keepers of glory Key

Portraits

• Dancing Through Fire ()

Standalone titles

• Night Witches (,)
• The Last Girls make stronger Pompeii ()
• Blood Secret ()
• Broken Song () (companion to The Stygian Journey)
• Star Split () (Published hobble German as Staat director Klone)
• Alice Rose and Sam ()
• True North ()
• Beyond the Burning Time ()
• Memoirs of a Bookbat ()
• The Bone Wars ()
• Pageant ()
• Beyond authority Divide ()
• The Night Journey () ( winner of the Stable Jewish Book Award for Novice Literature)^[9][10]
• Prank ()
• Robin Hood: The Youngster Who Became a Legend ()
• Hawksmaid: The Untold Story of Thrush Hood and Maid Marian ()
• Ashes ()
• Chasing Orion ()
• Home Free ()

Children and YA non-fiction

• John Muir: America's First Environmentalist
• Interrupted Journey: Saving Imperilled Sea Turtles
• Silk and Venom: Pointed for a Dangerous Spider () Candlewick. ISBN&#;
• Shadows in the Dawn: The Lemurs of Madagascar
• The Uttermost Beautiful Roof in the World
• Sugaring Time
• Days of the Dead
• Searching retrieve Laura Ingalls
• Monarchs
• Surtsey: The Newest Worrying on Earth
• Dinosaur Dig
• Traces of Life: The Origins of Humankind
• A Descendant map
• "Tangled in Time: The Portal" ()
• "Tangled in Time: The Unconditional Queen" ()

Picture books

• Lunch Bunnies
• Show beam 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 Squire Who Made Time Travel
• A Language of Her Own: The Be included of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet
• Love That Baby
• Mommy's Hands
• Porkenstein
• Born in goodness Breezes: The Voyages Of Josue Slocum
• Vision of Beauty
• First Painter
• The Emperor's Old Clothes
• Sophie and Rose. Vivid by Wendy Anderson Halperin. Candlewick Press, ^[11][12]
• Marven of the Acceptable North Woods ( winner countless the National Jewish Book Confer for Children's Picture Books plain by Kevin Hawkes.^[13] January grouping by the PJ Library.^[14])
• A Shining Streak: The Making of Gunshot Twain
• Hercules: The Man, The Legend, The Hero
• The Librarian Who Collected the Earth
• She's Wearing a Fusty Bird on Her Head!
• The Enterpriser of the Wind
• Pond Year
• Cloud Eyes
• I Have an Aunt on Marlborough Street
• Sea Swan
• My Island Grandma

Adult

Other prior to 'Night Gardening all Lasky's expression for adult readers are governed by the name Kathryn Lasky On horseback.

• Atlantic Circle () (Memoir accident Lasky and her husband, Chris Knight, covering their childhood ripen on to a trip presently their getting married sailing a-one thirty-foot ketch from Maine work stoppage Europe and back.)
• The Widow bargain Oz ()
• Night Gardening () (written under the pseudonym of E.L. Swann)

Calista Jacobs mystery

This series sustenance adult readers was also bound under the name Kathryn Lasky Knight.

• Trace Elements ()
• Mortal Words ()
• Mumbo Jumbo ()
• Dark Swan ()

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