Kathryn Lasky, Author Scholastic Inc. $10.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-439-21943-3
Kathryn Lasky adds to the Dear America series with Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, set in Indianapolis, Ind., in 1932. Even though things look bleak, Minnie's family figures out a way to celebrate the holiday. ...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author Morrow Junior Books $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-07433-3
In the 1870s, while western Indians fought to defend their lands from white encroachment, British and American paleontologists competed for discovery of large fossils in the region. Sometimes, as when scientist dug for bones in sacred places, these...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author Scholastic $14.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-590-20523-8
Lasky (The Night Journey) again combines suspenseful fiction with history as she intersects the lives of two 19th-century adolescent girls: Afrika, a run-away slave from a Virginia plantation, and Lucy, a restless young socialite from Boston. While...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author Scholastic $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-47331-6
The evocative cover illustration of a Puritan woman in chains silhouetted against a flaming sky promises a high historical drama about the Salem witch trials. What Lasky (Sugaring Time; The Night Journey) delivers instead is a soap opera with shoe...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $10.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-15-215727-2
``Honey,'' Harper's mother says to her sweetly, ``You're no longer just a migrant for God. You're on his rescue squad.'' Harper, a highly intelligent teenager given to irony, tells how she ended up leaving her Christian fundamentalist family in this
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Kathryn Lasky, Author Laurel Leaf Library $3.25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-91021-3
An Amish girl, Meribah Simon, goes west with her father who has been ""shunned,'' or forced to leave their Amish community. Along the way she tries to help a friend get over a vicious rape, copes with the illness and death of her father, and grows...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author Scholastic Paperbacks $4.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-590-20524-5
In the years before the Civil War, the paths of two adolescent girls--one a Boston socialite, the other a runaway slave from Virginia--converge, and together they embark on a treacherous journey to the Canadian border. ""Lasky combines suspenseful...
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Kathryn Lasky, Harper, $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-000071-4
In this lively Robin Hood and Maid Marian origin story, tragedy strikes the family of young Matty Fitzwalter when her mother is murdered and her father refuses to ally with the corrupt Prince John. In the wake of this loss, Matty's father trains her
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Kathryn Lasky, Author . Viking $16.99 (318p) ISBN 978-0-670-01157-5
In this thoughtful historical novel, Lasky (the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series) chronicles Hitler's rise to power in 1932 Berlin through the intelligent narration of 13-year-old Gaby. The action proves sluggish initially, though it...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author Scholastic $10.95 (173p) ISBN 978-0-590-50214-6
In the impressive inaugural installments of the Dear America series, three accomplished authors give readers illuminating glimpses of the nation's past. Presented as a girl's diary, each book features real-life historical figures and the diarists'...
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Kathryn Lasky. Candlewick, $16.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3972-3
Lasky (the Guardians of Ga’Hoole series) delivers a well-researched and uncompromising standalone novel focusing on the Nazi genocide of the Roma and Sinti peoples. Lilo—a Sinti girl of 15 at the beginning of the book—is taken by the Nazis when they
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Kathryn Lasky. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-439-78310-1
At the turn of the century, 15-year-old Hannah Albury is sent on an "orphan train" to Kansas, where she is consumed by longing for the ocean. This longing soon turns to illness, as her skin begins to flake in tiny, iridescent crystals. Persuading...
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Kathryn Lasky. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-545-39716-2
Inspired by Hernando Cortes's 1519 reintroduction of horses to the New World for the first time in several thousand years, this inventive novel launches the Horses of the Dawn series. Lasky (the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series) tells the story through...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author . Scholastic/Apple $4.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-439-40557-7
Lasky's (The Man Who Made Time Travel) Guardians of Ga'Hoole series opens with this unevenly paced tale centering on Soren, an owlet whose nasty older brother pushes him out of the family nest. A large owl snatches Soren up and carries him...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author . HarperCollins $15.99 (143p) ISBN 978-0-06-058761-1
Lasky's (the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series) Camp Princess series is off to a sprightly start with this tale set at a summer camp attended by "forty of the most royal princesses on earth." At center throne, for her first summer at camp,
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Christopher G. Knight, Photographer Morrow Junior Books $13.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-688-08574-2
What child hasn't dreamed of discovering a dinosaur fossil? Lasky and Knight, the Newbery Honor-winning creators of Sugaring Time, have collaborated on an engrossing photo-essay about the family vacation of a lifetime--a dinosaur dig. Lasky has...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Whitney Powell, Illustrator Morrow Junior Books $16.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-688-07237-7
This is an involving, well-crafted survey of paleoanthropology. Lasky offers extensive information on the history of hominid research and its scientists, occasionally breaking up the text with brief musings on the lives of the early hominids, though
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Bobette McCarthy, Illustrator MacMillan Publishing Company $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-02-751661-6
In this rather slight story that may disappoint readers of Lasky's more memorable books, including Sugaring Time and I Have an Aunt on Marlborough Street , Grace is having a tantrum. As she slams her head against the bed and bangs her feet against...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Mike Bostock, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $13.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56402-187-8
This elegy to algae will tantalize even the finicky with its playful presentation of creative pond-slumming. Two six-year-olds-Carole and the unnamed narrator-kick off a year of pond games in April: still wearing mittens, they fashion miniature...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Mark Hess, Author, Mark Hess, Illustrator Hyperion Books $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0329-3
The pumped-up mythical figure cursed by his superhuman strength narrates his glorious story in this rock 'em, sock 'em picture book. The son of Zeus and a mortal woman, Hercules suffers the wrath of Zeus's jealous wife, Hera. From wrestling serpents
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Marylinhafner, Illustrator, Marylin Hafner, Illustrator , illus. by Marylin Hafner. Dell/Dragonfly $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-440-41796-5
In this follow-up to Lucille's Snowsuit, the titular piglet's birthday tutu arrives early in the mail. Humorous illustrations chronicle her extended preparations for a birthday performance. Ages 3-7. (May)
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Marylin Hafner, Author, Marylin Hafner, Illustrator Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-51525-2
What if he spills soup all over his tray? What if no one wants to sit with him? On his first day of first grade, Clyde is terrified of lunchtime, and his merciless older brother, Jefferson, who tells him that the school cooks will make him eat ""myst
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, John Manders, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $16 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-216235-1
Favorite fairy tales and songs are featured in new picture books. Science, history and fairy tale unite in Humphrey, Albert, and the Flying Machine by Kathryn Lasky, illus. by John Manders. In this witty riff on ""Sleeping Beauty,"" siblings...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, John Manders, Illustrator, Vince Dorse, Illustrator , illus. by John Manders. Viking $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-670-06168-6
Not all Pilgrims were “goody-goodies,” explains narrator Standish Brewster, a professor of “Pilgrimology.” Case in point: Johnny and Francis Billington (“So we nearly blew up the Mayflower
. It wasn't like we meant
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Catherine Stock, Illustrator, Catherine Stock, Photographer MacMillan Publishing Company $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-02-751700-2
Elzibah Swan lives in a tall brick house, which her great-grandfather built, on Beacon Hill in Boston. She has lived there all her life, in a quiet, orderly fashion; each day has its closely adhered-to routines. But when her two grandchildren come...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, LeUyen Pham, Illustrator , illus. by LeUyen Pham. Harcourt $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-201464-3
"You know," says a woman, as she peers over her reading glasses with mock solemnity at her young daughter, "I wasn't always your mother." So begins this well-pitched proof that no mother was born yesterday. Subtly connecting the...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Paul Lee, Illustrator , illus. by Paul Lee. Candlewick $6.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2878-9
PW
called this picture-book biography of the first published African-American woman poet a "lyrical portrait. The large-scale, realistic acrylics emphasize Wheatley's strength and constancy amidst the turbulent tenor of her times." Ages
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Paul Lee, Illustrator , illus. by Paul Lee. Candlewick $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0252-9
Lasky (Sugaring Time) opens her lyrical portrait of Phillis Wheatley, the first published African-American woman poet, in 1761; her subject is about seven years old, huddled in the dark hold of a slave ship. The narrative evokes the child's...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Dawn Sirett, Author, Rocco Baviera, Illustrator DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2578-2
Lasky (Sophie and Rose) lyrically and plausibly imagines what might have prompted the creativity of a young cave painter. When her mother, a Dream Catcher, dies while attempting to relieve their people of drought and famine, Mishoo, as the eldest...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Kevin Hawkes, Author, Kevin Hawkes, Illustrator Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-316-51526-9
Newbery Honor author Lasky (Sugaring Time) deserves high marks for her attempt to present formal mathematical concepts in a picture-book format. The result, however, is a somewhat uneven amalgam of fable, history and science that struggles to find...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Barry Moser, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-219168-9
In language as clear as ``the honeybee's sweet gold'' and with black-and-white drawings that seem etched with ``moon silver,'' Lasky and Moser spin an imaginative tale about a youth who dances with bears. Cloud Eyes is a dreamer: because he can ``fin
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Kevin Hawkes, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $16 (48p) ISBN 978-0-15-200104-9
During the 1918 winter flu epidemic in Duluth, Minn., 10-year-old Marven is dispatched from home to a north country logging camp where he will be safe. Five hours after leaving his family on the train platform, the boy steps into a vast, white...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Kevin Hawkes, Illustrator , illus. by Kevin Hawkes. Harcourt/Voyager $7 (48p) ISBN 978-0-15-216826-1
During
a 1918 winter flu epidemic, a 10-year-old is dispatched from home to a logging camp where he will be safe. "Thanks to Lasky's considerable command of language and narrative detail, readers will linger over descriptions of Marven's
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Kevin Hawkes, Illustrator , illus. by Kevin Hawkes. FSG/Kroupa $17 (48p) ISBN 978-0-374-34788-8
Lasky and Hawkes (previously teamed for The Librarian Who Measured the Earth) turn their attention to John Harrison, the 18th-century British clockmaker who solved one of history's most vexing navigational problems. Tackling her subject in short,
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Marylin Hafner, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-517-80041-6
Kathryn Lasky's lovable pig, last seen in Starring Lucille, has a different kind of camping adventure in Lucille Camps In, illus. by Marylin Hafner. Deemed too young to go camping with her father and older siblings, Lucille sulks until she and her...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Marylin Hafner, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0729-6
Bringing back the likable lapins from Lunch Bunnies and Show and Tell Bunnies, Lasky and Hafner again convey the trials and triumphs of elementary school with plenty of humor and unmistakable empathy. Clyde and Rosemary, his best friend and science-f
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Marylin Hafner, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0396-0
Clyde, the bunny first-grader who mastered the art of doing lunch in Lunch Bunnies, now has a new ordeal to face: Show and Tell. Nothing he owns, not his string collection nor his leaf album, will be even remotely interesting enough, according to...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Marylin Hafner, Illustrator Crown Publishers $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-517-80037-9
In this disappointingly plodding and predictable tale by the creators of the lively Lunch Bunnies, piglet Lucille struggles to get into her one-piece snowsuit after her older siblings, Franklin and Frances, dash outdoors in their parkas, ski pants...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Ora Eitan, Illustrator , illus. by Ora Eitan. FSG/Kroupa $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-32529-9
Collaborators Lasky (One Beetle Too Many
) and Eitan (Scuba Bunnies
) offer a quietly stirring tribute to the artist Georgia O'Keeffe. The illustrations, which cast the desert landscapes and O'Keeffe's adobe residence in boldly...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Janet Stevens, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-204264-6
When Gamma Lee decides to trade the quiet valley for a wild, windy mountaintop, her neighbors fear she has lost her mind. After all, their valley is the ``best place in the world'': cool in the summer, snug in the winter and always peaceful....
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, David Catrow, Author, David Catrow, Illustrator Hyperion Books $14.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0065-0
Proper Boston ladies Harriet Hemenway and her cousin Minna Hall are absolutely incensed by the latest style: ladies' hats topped with not just feathers but whole birds (``from egrets to pheasants to owls to warblers... even pigeons!''). The fad...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Nneka Bennett, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0253-6
Lasky (A Brilliant Streak: The Making of Mark Twain; Science Fair Bunnies, reviewed above) chronicles the life of Sarah Breedlove Walker, who was born in 1870 in Louisiana to former slaves and became the richest African-American woman of her times...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Jennifer Plecas, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56402-679-8
A number of releases focus on babies and toddlers. Youngsters can learn about newborns in Love That Baby! A Book About Babies for New Brothers, Sisters, Cousins, and Friends by Kathryn Lasky, illus. by Jennifer Plecas. Divided into sections such...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Wendy Anderson Halperin, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0459-2
Sophie is overjoyed to discover Rose, a doll who has been in the family for two generations and is ""so old-fashioned that she seemed like a visitor from another time."" Sophie soon learns that Rose is fragile: when Sophie combs the doll's hair, a...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Matthew Trueman, Illustrator , illus. by Matthew Trueman. Candlewick $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1436-2
The bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth on February 12, 2009 (yes, the same day as Lincoln's) has not escaped publishers.
One Beetle Too Many: The Extraordinary Adventures of Charles Darwin
Kathryn Lasky
, illus. by Matthew Trueman....
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Kathryn Lasky, illus. by Stephen Gilpin, Scholastic Press, $15.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-545-11681-7
Lasky (the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series) launches a new series, the Deadlies, centering on a family of toxic brown recluse spiders who feel misunderstood by humans. Felix, his worrywart mother, and two sisters flee their home in a Los Angeles...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, David Catrow, Illustrator , illus. by David Catrow. Harcourt/Voyager $6 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-216348-8
"This genial spin on the classic story takes the perspective of a simple farmer who dons the regal clothing that fell off the emperor's wagon," wrote PW. Ages 3-7. (Apr.)
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, David Catrow, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-200384-5
For graduates of ""The Emperor's New Clothes,"" this genial spin on the classic story takes the perspective of a simple farmer, who dons the regal clothing that fell off the emperor's wagon. After the farmer tries on the royal garb, he takes a quick
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Helen Cogancherry, Illustrator Morrow Junior Books $13.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-688-08287-1
Lasky's ( Dinosaur Dig ; Sugaring Time ) storytelling flows as quickly and as smoothly as the waters that swirl around this warm tale's setting--a dolphin-shaped island off the Maine coast. Becca, a city girl, is apprehensive about spending the...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Marilyn Hafner, Illustrator, Marylin Hafner, Illustrator Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-51586-3
First-grader Clyde overcomes his fear of school and the cafeteria by helping a classmate. ""Readers will line up for seconds,"" said PW in a starred review. Ages 4-8. (Sept.)
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Marilyn Hafner, Illustrator, Marylin Hafner, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-517-80039-3
Kathryn Lasky's porker takes center stage once more in Starring Lucille, illus. by Marylin Hafner. In this follow-up to Lucille's Snowsuit, the titular piglet's birthday tutu arrives early in the mail. Humorous illustrations chronicle her...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Katryn Lasky, Author Simon Pulse $5.5 (304p) ISBN 978-0-689-80163-1
In this affecting pioneer tale by a Newbery Honor-winning author, an Amish girl heads west with her father after he has been shunned by their community. Ages 12-up. (Sept.)
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Theresa Flavin, Author, Theresa Flavin, Illustrator Hyperion Books $15.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0336-1
Unlike most other residents of Virginia City, Nev., in the 1860s, feisty 12-year-old Alice Rose does not give a hoot about silver mining or striking it rich. ""This is no place for a child!"" she protests, and the grittiness of the opening scenes...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, Cliff Neilson, Illustrator, Cliff Nielson, Illustrator Hyperion Books $15.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0459-7
Lasky (Alice Rose & Sam) provocatively explores the ethics of genetic engineering in this well-plotted novel set in the year 3038. Like everyone she knows, 13-year-old Darci Murlowe is a Genhant, or Genetically Enhanced Human, implanted with a 48th...
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Kathryn Lasky, Author, David Jarvis, Illustrator , illus. by David Jarvis. Scholastic/Blue Sky $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-590-62380-3
The famous inventor Dr. Smart Pig, a lonesome survivor of the Big Bad Wolf, wants an inedible porcine companion with whom to spend Halloween. After mistakenly producing a pig-headed fish and curly-tailed bat, he creates a gigantic, voracious pink...
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Kathryn Lasky, illus. by Ricardo Tercio. Random/Lamb, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-553-49891-2
Magic and reality collide in Lasky’s (the Guardians of Ga’Hoole series) humorous Cinderella-esque tale. Eleven-year-old Ryder is stunned when her soft-spoken, widowed father tells her that he has found happiness with a manipulative woman named...
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Kathryn Lasky. HarperCollins, $16.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-269325-9
After her mother dies in a car crash, middle-schooler Rose is sent from Philadelphia to live with her grandmother in Indianapolis. At her new school, Rose befriends Myles, a boy with cerebral palsy, who becomes her ally against a trio of mean girls...
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Kathryn Lasky, illus. by Kevin Hawkes. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-374-35513-5
Lasky and Hawkes, collaborators on The Man Who Made Time Travel and other titles, provide a sensitive look at Isaac Newton. From an early age, Newton’s deep curiosity set him apart, leading him to question, experiment, and study the work of...
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Kathryn Lasky. HarperCollins, $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-269331-0
Set during WWII, Newbery Honoree Lasky’s intense historical drama follows a white family of spies whose tradition of serving Great Britain dates back to Henry VIII. Thirteen-year-old Alice Winfield has for years trained for her first A-level mission,
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Kathryn Lasky. HarperCollins, $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-303101-2
In this ghostly tale involving interdependent animal species residing around notoriously haunted pond Glendunny, Lasky (Faceless) focuses on a colony of beavers that settled in Scotland, having fled England to avoid the “two-legs,” or humans, who...
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Kathryn Lasky, illus. by Johnson Yazzie. Charlesbridge, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-62354-176-7
Because the tsar is “sending his soldiers to hurt Jewish people,” eight-year-old Yossel’s family emigrates from Russia to America, traveling by train, boat, and covered wagon to New York City, then past Santa Fe to a town that borders a Navajo...
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Kathryn Lasky. HarperCollins, $19.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-329402-8
Though her family is renowned throughout England for its glassmaking artistry, Bess Wickham craves reality and nature over crystalline perfection, in part due to her affinity for gardening and ability to speak with birds. When she discovers the dark
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Kathryn Lasky, illus. by Julianna Swaney. HarperCollins, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-284930-4
Highlighting the life of Scottish-born astronomer Williamina Stevens Fleming, this picture book biography illuminates how her work chipped away at sexist barriers of the late 19th century. Lasky’s straightforward narrative describes how the young...
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