Kathryn Lasky
Kathryn Lasky is the American author of many critically acclaimed books, including several Dear America books, several Royal Diaries books, 1984 Newbery Medal–winning Sugaring Time, The Night Journey, and the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her latest book, Guardians of Ga'Hoole Book 15: The War of the Ember, was released on November 1, 2008. Guardians of Ga'Hoole: A Guide Book to the Great Tree was released on September 1, 2007, almost a month before projected selling time. She was born June 24, 1944, and grew up in Indianapolis, and is married to Christopher Knight, with whom she lives in Boston. She is also a non-fiction writer of other books.
Book 15, The War of the Ember, is currently the last book in the Ga'Hoole series. In 2010, Lasky released a new book, The Lone Wolf. It is part of the series Wolves of the Beyond. It takes place near the owls of Ga'Hoole. The wolves have a good relationship with the owls.
Works
Camp Princess
- Born to Rule
- Unicorns? Get Real!
- 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
- Journey to the New World
- Dreams in the Golden Country
- Christmas After All
- A Time for Courage
- The Journal of Augustus Pelletier
- 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)
Portraits
- Dancing Through Fire
Daughters of the Sea
- Book #1: Hannah (September 2009)
- Book #2: Girl in the Shadows (2010[?])
- Book #3
- Book #4
Starbuck Family Adventures
- Double Trouble Squared
- Shadows in the Water
- A Voice in the Wind
Headline text
- The Capture #1
- The Journey#2
- The Rescue#3
- The Siege#4
- The Shattering#5
- The Burning#6
- The Hatchling#7
- The Outcast#8
- The First Collier#9
- The Coming of Hoole#10
- To Be a King#11
- The Golden Tree#12
- The River of Wind#13
- Exile#14
- The War of the Ember#15
- The lone wolves
- guardians of Ga'Hoole:A Guide To the Great Tree
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
Children / young adults non-fiction
- 3038 Staat der Klone
- 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
- Wolves of the Beyond Lone Wolf
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
Adults
- Night Gardening (written under the pseudonym of E.L. Swann)
- Dark Swan
- Mumbo Jumbo
- Mortal Words
- Trace Elements
- The Widow of Oz
External links
- Kathryn Lasky
- Interview with Kathryn Lasky by OwlPages.com