Most Popular Books by Gloria Skurzynski

In a future world where global contamination has necessitated limited human contact, three young people with unique genetically engineered abilities are teamed up to wage a war in virtual reality.

A novel of the Pied Piper legend told from the standpoint of a 14 year-old baker''s assistant who dreams of freedom from his harsh medieval life and of a new life with the piper.

Twelve-year-old Jack, his younger sister, and the family''s teenage foster child Troy go to Yellowstone National Park, where Jack''s mother, a wildlife veterinarian, is investigating the report that wolves reintroduced to the park have killed a dog there.

Earth''s population has been decimated by disease, and fourteen-year-old Corgan, genetically engineered to be the perfect warrior, plays an important part in the impending virtual war alongside his partner, the beautiful Sharla.

This is the poignant story of the friendship between two boys, Hank Kerner and Bazyli Radichevych, called Billy Radish, set in the steel town of Canaan, Pennsylvania, in 1917. Thge boys are very different, for while Hank considers himself all-American, Billy is a Ukrainian immigrant straddling two cultures. As World War I rages overseas, both boys are faced with some difficult questions.

While visiting the Everglades National Park with their parents, the Landon children uncover the mystery of dying manatees and learn important lessons about the natural environment.

Previously published as "The Revolt" and "The Choice," this bind-up finds the virtual battle spilling into the real world, when Corgan is challenged by Brigand, the product of a clone experiment gone wrong.

Visiting Zion National Park with his family, twelve-year-old Jack encounters two mysteries, the strange behavior of a band of wild mustangs and the possibly sinister actions of his new foster brother, a Shoshone boy.

An adventurous rescue set in the time of medieval knights, castles, bandits, and music. Before their father returns to France from the Crusades, daring Alice and musical Roger set off on their own journey: to find their long-lost uncle. But on the way, the siblings are kidnapped and locked in an ancient hidden tower. To finish their quest, they need to escape—and fast! Can Alice use her courage to slip away and find help? And can Roger use his musical talents to guide her back before it’s too late? History Stepping Stones now feature updated content that emphasizes Common Core and today’s renewed interest in nonfiction. Perfect for home, school, and library bookshelves!

The Landon family travels to Glacier National Park to investigate why grizzly bear cubs are disappearing and become involved with a ten-year-old Mexican runaway boy.

Jack, Ashley, and their unreliable new foster sister set out to solve the mystery of why whales are beaching themselves at Acadia National Park. While investigating mysterious strandings of whales in Maine''s coastal Acadia National Park, the Landons are joined by 14-year-old Bindy Callister, a temporary ward. When Jack, Ashley, and Bindy find a baby humpback whale stranded in a tidal pool, Bindy suspects who''s responsible, but she''s too scared to say. Jack and Ashley must get her to talk before more lives are endangered.

Andrew Otter makes a few mistakes before he learns how to be honest and tactful at the same time.

Clones are supposed to be identical... aren''t they? Corgan, hero of the Virtual War, has been living a blissful, if placid, life on the Isles of Hiva, his reward for winning the War with Sharla and Brig. But what he doesn''t know is that Brig died soon after the War, and yet is not truly gone. Sharla had saved some of Brig''s DNA and has created clone-twins with it. Corgan''s world is disrupted when Sharla brings one of the clone-twins, Seabrig, to him to raise on the island, while she keeps the other, Brigand, with her in the Domed City. However, when circumstances force Sharla to bring Brigand to the island, they find that while the boys may look identical, their temperaments are not. Brigand is haughty, willful, power hungry, and despises Corgan because of his relationship with Sharla. And, as a result of the cloning process, both boys are growing at an astonishing rate. In what may or may not have been an accident with his clone-twin, Seabrig is badly injured and must be airlifted from the island to receive medical treatment in the Domed City. This leaves Corgan alone with an increasingly dangerous and unstable Brigand, who is now his size, and looking to get rid of Corgan once and for all. A gripping sequel to Virtual War that could be ripped straight from the headlines -- in eighty years....

Eleven-year-old Kevin finds himself alone and lost in the Utah desert, with only his wits to help him survive.

An adolescent must choose between the mills and his education.

Only when he finally reaches adolescence does a boy, living in medieval Poland, realize people think he is a werewolf.

Examines the ways humans have measured time throughout history and discusses the various units that are used to keep track of it.

A history of rockets and rocket science, from the Chinese discovery of gunpowder to the development of nuclear spacecraft and rockets that sail on the solar winds.