Most Popular Books by Kathleen Duey

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.

When a T. rex invades the present day through a time portal, the Time Soldiers kids struggle to keep the raging dinosaur from hurting anyone.

Justin is spying on the strange man next door whom he thinks is an alien.

Este libro ilustrado digitalmente para niños presenta un cuento en lo cual una tiranosaurio pasa por el portal del tiempo y entra un pueblo de seres humanos.

The young band of adventurers returns innbsp;another action-packed trip into the past—this time back to the American West. When the Time Soldiers go through the portal to the 1860s, they find themselves not just watching the historic, breakneck rides of the pony express but alsonbsp;saddling up with the riders to carry Abraham Lincoln''s inaugural address across 2,000 miles of wilderness. While the travelers lend a handnbsp;in the past, they are watchednbsp;by mysterious men in dark suits who follow and wait, lurking at the margins of theirnbsp;time-bending trips. With engaging graphic design and a mix of history and fantasy, these tales of adventure and mystery will keep young readers glued to the pages.

The second book in the Hoofbeats series focusing on Lara! Nine-year-old Lara is the daughter of the 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.

Tahi, a young dolphin, learns how to survive by following her mother''s guidance until she is old enough to rely on herself.

In Hawaii in 1941, sixth grader Janey G. Blue experiences the terror of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Korow, a young chimpanzee, learns to climb on his own and reach the fruit at the top of a tree.

Heart is sure that the small book she found in Lord Dunraven''s castle holds the secret to finding a safe haven for her beloved unicorns, Moonsilver and Avamir - especially after a village blacksmith tells her about a pair of ancient iron gates that are decorated with the same unicorn motifs that appear in the book. Will the book also unlock the key to Heart''s own memories and help her discover who she really is and where she came from - are the unicorn motifs on the gates the same as those on her blanket and in the book? What is on the other side of these gates and where does it lead to? As Heart struggles to learn how to read she knows that she must continue to protect the unicorns, but this is becoming harder and harder as Lord Dunraven''s men close in on them. . .

Orphaned nine-year-old Katie Rose is sent to live with the Stevenses, and her backbreaking toil is eased by the relationship she develops with a mustang Mr. Stevens brings home.

The time soldiers travel back in time to help a girl being held prisoner by Calico Jack, the pirate.

En esta novela dos jóvenes, el muchacho Brendan O''Connor y la muchacha Li Dai Yue, se encuentran y juntos se enfrentan al desastre del terremoto de San Francisco del año 1906. Tratan de sobrevivir el terror de incendios, edificios que se desmoronan, saqueos y caos.

Eager to make friends at his new school, Brandon befriends Ivan, the class guinea pig, and decides to take the animal home one day to introduce it to his mother. Original.

Big changes in the Hollywood of 1928 threaten Rosa Moreno''s dream of becoming a movie star.