Best Selling Books by Kathleen Duey

With trepidation, Katie continues Westward with the Kylers. The mountainous terrain makes for difficult traveling, and they arrive in Oregon shortly before the winter snows hit. While the Kylers and the others begin the search for land, Katie''s worst fears are confirmed. Her uncle is not there. Then she realizes that she has brought the Mustang home, and she cannot keep him with her anymore. Left with no family and without the Mustang to rely on, Katie must find her own way...

Nine-year-old Lara is the daughter of the r?-the leader of her cattle-raising clan. While she spends her days tending to the cattle, her heart lies with her beloved gray mare. When Lara goes to the highlands to set the cattle out to graze, she finds the mare in the process of a difficult birth. Lara vows to take care of the foal as a dying promise to the gray mare, and with the help of a childless milk-cow, she cares for the spindly-legged filly. But just when she is confident that the foal can survive, a rival clan captures them both, and throws Lara''s life into turmoil. When the filly is eventually given to a titled baron in the castle town of Athenry, Lara, determined to stay with the horse no matter what, goes along. Together, she and her beloved horse face seemingly insurmountable challenges, but all along Lara keeps two things in mind. One day, she will manage to flee, and will set off in search of the family that she was taken from. And she will not leave without her silver mare.

Sierra O''Nielle, a housekeeper, meets Joseph Drachier, and they fall in love and fate intervenes in the form of an earthquake.

A picture storybook based on the 2002 film about Peter Parker, an unassuming young man whose life is turned around when he gets supernatural powers after being bitten by a genetically altered spider.

As a major storm approaches Louisiana in 1869, Madelaine''s father rounds up every field hand he can find in order to safe his farm. He never expects his daughter to fall in love with Francoise, a wildly inappropriate suitor. So the father tries to drive him out.

The newest installment in the American Diaries series transports contemporary readers back to an exciting period in history: the American Revolution. Philadelphia 1777: Mary Alice Peale must find a way to help her wounded brother, a rebel soldier, without revealing his whereabouts to their Loyalist father.

Katie continues her journey to Fort Laramie, but is disappointed when she is unable to find her uncle.

Nine-year-old Lara is the daughter of the ri - the leader of her cattle-raising clan. While she spends her days tending to the cows, her heart lies with her beloved grey mare. Lara dreams that the mare''s foal might one day be hers. But she knows that girls aren''t allowed to keep horses-in fourteenth century Ireland, that is a boy''s job. When her clan is raided and the mare is stolen, Lara is devastated. What will become of the mare-and her foal? Lara prays with all of her heart, and hopes beyond hope, that the fates will bring the mare back to her . . .

While working as an indentured servant on a plantation in Virginia in 1749, thirteen-year-old Summer must prove her innocence when her master''s daughter accuses her of stealing.

The Time Soldiers hear someone crying. They find themselves on a deserted beach. They spot a cave in the cliffs filled with treasure chests, cannons and Pirates? Can the Time Soldiers avoid being captured? Will they be able to free the child prisoner? Will they make it home?

Adventure, drama, wild horses running free. The American West is brought to life through the eyes of the horses who were there in a new program of books inspired by Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, the new film coming May 2002 from DreamWorks. Bonita is a pampered riding horse in San Antonio when the Mexican War for Independence breaks out. Torn from her beloved mistress, Bonita is forced into a life of hardship. But newfound strength enables her to escape from her captors and find a new life of freedom.

After returning home with her horse from Connemara, Lara no longer feels that her old life has anything to offer, so she tries to find another place for herself and her horse which is safe from the warring clans.

Emancipated by their owner''s will, thirteen-year-old Evie and her father struggle to gain Mama''s freedom and to make a home for themselves in the pre-Civil War South.

Filled with drama, adventure and uplifting themes from the film, this full-length novel tells the whole story of Spirit, stallion of the Cimarron, for the fully independent reader. It follows Spirit''s life from his birth, through his capture, to his triumphant return to freedom.

The small piece of gold which Anisett carries in her pocket causes grave danger for her family living in the rough world of the California gold camps.

In 1894, Daniel and Carrie fight to survive as an uncontrollable forest fire threatens to destroy their small Minnesota mill town.

In the second volume of this powerful trilogy, Somiss, exiled and desperate, hoards the magic he is recovering from ancient documents while Sadima and Franklin struggle to contain his egomaniacal ambitions by secretly recording the magic, hoping to share it with humankind. Generations later, Hahp and Gerrard, students at Somiss’s brutal academy, endure the painful ordeals used to “teach” magic. Their tenuous pact, forged to survive, falters as they plot to destry Somiss, the school . . . and set magic free.

Mutants are being born with strange powers. Afraid and intolerant, governments build gigantic robots to detect and destroy them. Struggling with loyalty and ideals the X-Men must fight to save the world for all of humanity.

In 1847, when her mother''s remarriage sends them on a difficult journey to California, Willow is swept overboard fording the South Platte River and must survive and search for her family.

Twelve-year-old Sarah breaks the Sabbath in Puritan New England and faces a moral dilemma when an innocent person is accused in her place.

There is no time for homesickness or dreams of freedom when the Vigilance is caught in a violent hurricane.

Twelve-year-old Mathilda, who would love to have a dog, tries to get around the "No Dogs" rule of her apartment building by using a little magic

When Liam''s brother, Padraic, is too ill to work and may lose his job in the mines, Liam''s friend Rory disguises herself as a boy and takes Padraic''s place--only to find herself and Liam in grave danger when there''s a cave-in.

In 1932, when her father''s foot injury makes it impossible for him to do farm work for a while, thirteen-year-old Agnes steps in, proving herself and revealing her understanding of him.

While trying to hide her horse, Maddie meets up with two Yankee soldiers who make her change her mind about who is right and who is wrong in the war between North and South.

When Mother Rabbit is sick on Easter and the Easter Bunny fails to arrive, Flopsey, Mopsey, Cottontail and Peter make their own holiday treats. Includes songs entitled Cooperate and Work together.

When foundling Heart Avamir rescues a scarred, malnourished mare she finds in the forest, her life is changed forever - especially after the mare gives birth to a foal that turns out to be a unicorn. To protect the mare and her magical foal, Heart must leave her village and embark on a quest that will not only reveal the unicorn''s secret, but raise tantalizing mysteries about Heart''s own history.

An adventure of Peter Rabbit as he searches for Easter in Farmer MacGregor''s garden.

In 1826 in Idaho, twelve-year-old Celou Sudden Shout, who is half-French and half-Shoshone, attempts to rescue her mother and two younger brothers from the Crow warriors who kidnapped them.

Katie And The Kylers arrive in Oregon shortly before the snow. While they search for land, Katie''s realizes her uncle isn''t there. She brought the Mustang home and she cannot keep him. Left with no family and no Mustang, Katie must find her own way.

Mr. Stumpguss comes to help out in Mrs. Fox''s third grade classroom, and the kids love him. But every day during reading period, Mr. Stumpguss stops smiling. Tuck figures out why and tries to help him keep his secret, but the plan turns into a disaster.

When two young strangers meet by chance on the day of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, they struggle to survive the terror of crumbling buildings, fire, looting, and chaos.

In 1851 in Louisiana, Paul is abandoned in the bayous by his older brothers and it is up to his lame Cajun friend Lily to find him.