New Releases by Kathryn Lasky

release date: Sep 01, 2010

Twelve-year-old Mem presents a diary account of the trip she and her family made on the Mayflower in 1620 and their first year in the New World.

The War of the Ember

release date: Nov 01, 2008

The strange, maniacal blue owl known as the Striga has been rousted from the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. Nyra, leader of the vicious Pure Ones, is either dead or laying low in some distant land,leaving the tree finally at peace. As if fed by an invisible spring, learning and the lively arts flourish at the great tree and spread throughout the owl kingdoms.

The River of Wind

release date: Jul 01, 2007

The adventure continues! In a land no owl knew existed, Soren, Coryn, and the Guardians find danger, knowledge, and new allies.

Coryn and the Band have returned to the Great Ga'Hoole Tree and restored order. With the Ember safely hidden away, the tree shakes off its gaudy golden glow and recovers its natural majesty. Meanwhile, deep in the Palace of Mists, Bess finds an ancient map fragment that reveals that there are not 5 owl kingdoms -- as has been thought since time immemorial -- but 6. Coryn and the chaw of chaws set off to find this unknown land. In a landscape of perpetual winter, they discover a monastery of serene, learned owls, the likes of which no one has ever seen before.

The Golden Tree

release date: Jan 01, 2007

After the time of the legends, the tale of the Guardians returns to the present in which Soren, the hero of Books 1-6, must train a new king. Old friends, new adventures!

Coryn, Soren, and the Band preside over a new Golden Age of the Great Tree under the subtle influence of the Ember. All seems well, but beneath the prosperity of peace Coryn is tortured by the suspicion that his evil mother, Nyra, is a hagsfiend and that his own blood carries the haggish taint. He wanders afar searching for the truth from hagsfiends themselves - putting the Great Tree in danger. Soren & the Band follow their new king to strange parts to guard him from the consequences of his obsession.

The Coming of Hoole

release date: Jul 01, 2006

The Owl Kingdoms are in danger!There is war!Hagsfiends are abroad, Kind H'rath is dead, and Queen Siv is in danger. She has left her egg with her most trusted friend, Grank, in fear that hagsfiends will try to destroy her egg.Queen Siv sets off with her trusted servant on a journey to stop the leader of these horrible hagsfiends in the shadows, but her life is at risk.Hagsfiends are hunting her down, and she may never be able to see her only owlet in her lifetime, let alone let the owlet know who his mother is. Grank names her son "Hoole", and though it may not seem, the child has a great destiny. Will Siv survive? What will Hoole achieve? Who will stop the hagsfiends from creating chaos and destruction? And on top of all, will the owl kingdoms achieve Peace?

To Be a King

release date: Jan 01, 2006

The eleventh title in this best-selling series brings Hoole to kingship and the legends to fulfilment signaling a return to the adventures of Coryn, Soren and the Band.

In this final book of the Legends trilogy Hoole reclaims the thrown of his father and goes on to wage a war against the forces of chaos, greed and oppression led by the powerful warlord-tyrants. Grank, the first collier, uses his skills with fire and metals to forge weapons for battle. With great trepidation Hoole uses the power of the Ember in the final, decisive battle and wins. At the dawn of a new ear of peace, Hoole searches for the ideal place to establish not a kingdom but an order of free owls and finds the Great Tree. (continued)

Broken Song

release date: Jan 01, 2005

In 1897, fifteen-year-old Reuven Bloom, a Russian Jew, must set aside his dreams of playing the violin in order to save himself and his baby sister after the rest of their family is murdered.

The Journal of Augustus Pelletier

release date: Sep 01, 2000

A fictional journal kept by twelve-year-old Augustus Pelletier, the youngest member of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery.

Marie Antoinette, Princess of Versailles

release date: Apr 01, 2000

Great Books for Girls (9-12)

A book about Queen Marie Antoinette's youth written in diary format. Makes you feel very close to little Antonia as she has doubts, and excitement, too about her upcoming marrige and journey to France. Personally, I greatly enjoyed this book and would reccomend it to anyone interested in Marie Antoinette.

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Elizabeth I, Red Rose of the House of Tudor

release date: Jun 01, 1999

In a series of diary entries, Princess Elizabeth, the eleven-year-old daughter of King Henry VIII, celebrates holidays and birthdays, relives her mother's execution, revels in her studies, and agonizes over her father's health.

Sugaring Time

Text and photographs show how a family taps the sap from maple trees and processes it into maple syrup.

Poodle and Hound

In three adventures, Hound and Poodle discover how much they enjoy each other's company, in spite of, or maybe because of, their differences.

The Capture

GUARDIANS OF GA'HOOLE is a classic hero mythology about the fight between good and evil. This series is filled with adventure, suspense, and heart.

In the first book in the GUARDIANS... series, the reader is introduced to Soren, a barn owl and the centerpiece of the series. When Soren is pushed from his family's nest by his older brother, he is rescued from certain death on the forest floor by agents from a mysterious school for orphaned owls, St. Aggie's. When Soren arrives at St. Aggie's, he suspects there is more to the school than meets the eye. He and his new friend, the clever and scrappy Gylfie, find out that St. Aggie's is actually a training camp where the school's leader can groom young owls to help achieve her goal--(cont.)

The Outcast

To prove his goodness, young Nyroc will renounce his name, his mother, and his inheritance to seek the holiest of relics from The Beyond the Beyond.

Nyroc has exiled himself from the Pure Ones. He flies alone, feared and despised by those who know him as Kludd's son, hunted by those whose despotism he has rejected, and haunted by ghostly creatures conjured by Nyra to lure him back to the Pure Ones. He yearns for a place he only half believes in -- the great tree -- and an uncle -- the near-mythic Soren -- who might be a true father to him. Yet he cannot approach the tree while the rumor of evil clings to him. To prove his worth, Nyroc will fly to The Beyond the Beyond seeking the legendary Relic and bring it, a talisman of his own

Before I Was Your Mother

by: Kathryn Lasky, LeUyen Pham

To Katie, it seems as if her mother has always been her mother, with her grocery lists, her purse full of bills to pay, and her boring, sensible shoes. But when her mother reveals that she once was a girl who bossed her little brother, wore firefighter boots to bed, and dreamed grand ballerina dreams, Katie realizes that she and her mother might be alike after all.
This humorous, warmhearted blend of past and present celebrates the special love mothers and daughters share.

Shadow Wolf (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Wolves of the Beyond (Pb))

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Returning to his clan as a lowest-ranking pack member, disabled wolf pup Faolan is targeted by a jealous peer and framed for a murder that forces him to identify the true culprit in order to clear his name and earn the status of a full-ranking wolf.

The Librarian Who Measured the Earth

by: Kathryn Lasky, Kevin Hawkes

A colorfully illustrated biography of the Greek philosopher and scientist Eratosthenes, who compiled the first geography book and accurately measured the globe's circumference.

The Most Beautiful Roof in the World: Exploring the Rainforest Canopy

by: Kathryn Lasky, Christopher G. Knight

Journey along with Dr. Meg Lowman, a scientist who, with the help of slings, suspended walkways, and mountain-climbing equipment, has managed to ascend into one of our planet's least accessible and most fascinating ecosystems--the rain-forest canopy. “Fresh in outlook and intriguing in details, this book will strengthen any library collection on the rainforest.”--Booklist

A Voice in the Wind: A Starbuck Twins Mystery, Book Three (Starbuck Family Adventures)