Kathryn lasky biography childrens chapter

American children's writer (born )

Kathryn Lasky (born June 24, )^[1] is an American children's man of letters who also writes for adults under the names Kathryn Lasky Knight and E. L. Swann. Her children's books include many Dear America books, The Converse Diaries books, Sugaring Time, The Night Journey, Wolves of honourableness Beyond, and the Guardians comprehensive Ga'Hoole series.

Her awards nourish Anne V. Zarrow Award quota Young Readers' Literature, National Person Book Award, and Newbery Honor.^[2]

Biography

Kathryn Lasky grew up in Indianapolis. She is Jewish and advice Russian descent.^[1] She is one to Christopher Knight, with whom she lives in Cambridge, Colony.

She received a bachelor's grade in English from the Routine of Michigan and a master's degree in early childhood care from Wheelock College.^[3]

She was distinction winner of the Anne Out-and-out. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature.^[4]

She is the author longedfor over one hundred books. Throw away most notable book series appreciation Guardians of Ga’Hoole, which has more than 8 millions copies printed.

Her books have anachronistic translated into 19 languages spend time the world.^[1]

Her adult nonfiction duct includes the book, Silk explode Venom: Searching for a Nontoxic Spider, a biography of primacy arachnologistGreta Binford,^[5] and the bestseller Night Witches, the story hold Soviet women pilots of character th Night Bomber Regiment teensy weensy WWII.^[6][7]

Works

Camp Princess

• Born To Rule
• Unicorns?

  Pretence Real!

The Royal Diaries

Dear America

• A Cruise to the New World: Decency Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower,
• Dreams in the Prosperous Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman a Jewish Immigrant Wench, New York City,
• Christmas Stern All: The Great Depression File of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana,
• A Time for Courage: Justness Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen, Washington, D.C.,
• Blazing West: Birth Journal of Augustus Pelletier, Sprinter and Clark Expedition,

My America

• Hope In My Heart: Sofia's Newcomer Diary (also known as Hope In My Heart, Sofia's Ellis Island Diary)
• Home at Last: Sofia's Immigrant Diary
• An American Spring: Sofia's Immigrant Diary

Daughters of the Sea

• Hannah
• May
• Lucy
• The Crossing

Horses of the Dawn

1. The Escape ()
2. Star Rise ()
3. Wild Blood ()

Starbuck Family Adventures

• Double Trouble Squared
• Shadows guaranteed the Water
• A Voice in representation Wind

Guardians of Ga'Hoole

Main article: Guardians of Ga'Hoole

1. The Capture (also obtainable as a movie tie-in rampage in the UK as Legend of the Guardians)
2. The Journey
3. The Rescue
4. The Siege
5. The Shattering
6. The Burning
7. The Hatchling
8. The Outcast
9. The First Collier
10. The Coming of Hoole
11. To Be a King
12. The Golden Tree
13. The River of Wind
14. Exile
15. The War entity the Ember

• The Rise of cool Legend () (this is spick prequel to the Guardians model Ga'Hoole series about Ezylryb)

Two lead the way books were released to bring forth readers more insight into class world of Hoole.

They untidy heap narrated by the owl Otulissa.

Wolves Of The Beyond

• Lone Wolf
• Shadow Wolf
• Watch Wolf
• Frost Wolf
• Spirit Wolf
• Star Wolf^[8]

The Deadlies

• Felix Takes the Stage
• Spiders assortment the Case

Bears of the Ice

• Quest of the Cubs
• The Den indicate Forever Frost
• The Keepers of say publicly Key

Portraits

• Dancing Through Fire ()

Standalone titles

• Night Witches (,)
• The Last Girls do away with Pompeii ()
• Blood Secret ()
• Broken Song () (companion to The Nocturnal Journey)
• Star Split () (Published bring to fruition German as Staat crook Klone)
• Alice Rose and Sam ()
• True North ()
• Beyond the Burning Time ()
• Memoirs of a Bookbat ()
• The Bone Wars ()
• Pageant ()
• Beyond nobility Divide ()
• The Night Journey () ( winner of the Public Jewish Book Award for Novice Literature)^[9][10]
• Prank ()
• Robin Hood: The Youth Who Became a Legend ()
• Hawksmaid: The Untold Story of Thrush Hood and Maid Marian ()
• Ashes ()
• Chasing Orion ()
• Home Free ()

Children and YA non-fiction

• John Muir: America's First Environmentalist
• Interrupted Journey: Saving Scarce Sea Turtles
• Silk and Venom: Intelligent for a Dangerous Spider () Candlewick.

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• Shadows in the Dawn: The Lemurs of Madagascar
• The Virtually Beautiful Roof in the World
• Sugaring Time
• Days of the Dead
• Searching champion Laura Ingalls
• Monarchs
• Surtsey: The Newest Worrying on Earth
• Dinosaur Dig
• Traces of Life: The Origins of Humankind
• A Babe map
• "Tangled in Time: The Portal" ()
• "Tangled in Time: The Earnest Queen" ()

Picture books

• Lunch Bunnies
• Show obscure 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 Chap Who Made Time Travel
• A Words decision of Her Own: The Version of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet
• Love That Baby
• Mommy's Hands
• Porkenstein
• Born in representation Breezes: The Voyages Of Josue Slocum
• Vision of Beauty
• First Painter
• The Emperor's Old Clothes
• Sophie and Rose.
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  Illustrated by Wendy Anderson Halperin. Candlewick Press, ^[11][12]

• Marven of the Great North Woods ( winner of the Ethnological Jewish Book Award for Lowranking Picture Books illustrated by Kevin Hawkes.^[13] January selection by ethics PJ Library.^[14])
• A Brilliant Streak: Depiction Making of Mark Twain
• Hercules: Class Man, The Myth, The Hero
• The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
• She's Wearing a Dead Bird artificial Her Head!
• The Gates of decency Wind
• Pond Year
• Cloud Eyes
• I Have key Aunt on Marlborough Street
• Sea Swan
• My Island Grandma

Adult

Other than 'Night Gardening all Lasky's works for full-grown readers are under the nickname Kathryn Lasky Knight.

• Atlantic Circle () (Memoir about Lasky see her husband, Chris Knight, disguise their childhood years on cling on to a trip shortly their acquiring married sailing a thirty-foot outline from Maine to Europe coupled with back.)
• The Widow of Oz ()
• Night Gardening () (written under dignity pseudonym of E.L.

  Swann)

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This series for adult readers was also written under influence name Kathryn Lasky Knight.

• Trace Elements ()
• Mortal Words ()
• Mumbo Jumbo ()
• Dark Swan ()

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