Lasky, Kathryn (1944 - )

Genre: Children's Literature, General Fiction, Non-Fiction, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult

Prolific author Kathryn Lasky was born and raised in Indiana, lives in Cambridge MA and summers on an island off the coast of Maine. She received her degree in English from the University of Michigan. Lasky worked for a fashion magazine and as a teacher before devoting herself to writing full time.

She writes mostly fiction for children and young adults, though she has written some children's non-fiction and some adult fiction.

Her Guardians of Ga'Hoole series of young adult novels about a society of owls has become very popular and has been adapted into a major motion picture.

Bibliography

Camp Princess Series

  • Born to Rule (2006)
  • Unicorns? Get Real! (2007)

The Royal Diaries Series

  • Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor, England 1544 (1999)
  • Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France 1769 (2000)
  • Mary, Queen of Scots: Queen Without a Country, France 1553 (2002)
  • Jahanara: Princess of Princesses, India 1627 (2002)
  • Kazunomiya: Prisoner of Heaven, Japan 1858 (2004)

Dear America Series

  • Journey to the New World: The Diary Of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620 (1996)
  • Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman a Jewish Immigrant Girl, New York City, 1903 (1998)
  • Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1932 (2001)
  • A Time for Courage:The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen, Washington, D.C., 1917 (2002)

My Name Is America Series

  • The Journal of Augustus Pelletier: Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804 (2000)

My America Series

  • Hope In My Heart, Sofia's Ellis Island Diary (Book One) (2003)
  • Home at Last: Sofia's Immigrant Diary (Book Two) (2003)
  • An American Spring: Sofia's Immigrant Diary (Book Three) (2004)

Portraits Series

  • Dancing Through Fire (2005)

Daughters of the Sea Series

  • Book #1: Hannah (2009)

Starbuck Family Adventures

  • Double Trouble Squared (1991)
  • Shadows in the Water (1992)
  • A Voice in the Wind (1993)

Guardians of Ga'Hoole Series

  • The Capture (2003)
  • The Journey (2003)
  • The Rescue (2004)
  • The Siege (2004)
  • The Shattering (2004)
  • The Burning (2004)
  • The Hatchling (2005)
  • The Outcast (2005)
  • The First Collier (2006)
  • The Coming of Hoole (2006)
  • To Be a King (2006)
  • The Golden Tree (2007)
  • The River of Wind (2007)
  • Exile (2008)
  • The War of the Ember (2008)
  • Guardians of Ga'Hoole:A Guide To the Great Tree (2010)
  • Guardians of Ga'Hoole: Lost Tales of Ga'Hoole (2010)

Wolves Of The Beyond Series

  • Book 1: Lone Wolf (2010)

Stand alone titles

  • Beyond the Divide (1983)
  • The Night Journey (1986)
  • Pageant (1986)
  • Prank (1986)
  • The Bone Wars (1988)
  • Beyond the Burning Time (1994)
  • True North (1996)
  • Alice Rose and Sam (1998)
  • Star Split (1999)
  • Blood Secret (2004)
  • Broken Song (2005)
  • The Last Girls of Pompeii (2007)
  • Hawksmaid (2010)
  • Ashes (2010)
  • Chasing Orion (2010)

Children/Young Adults Non-Fiction

  • Sugaring Time (1983)
  • A Baby for Max (1984)
  • Traces of Life (1989)
  • Dinosaur Dig (1990)
  • Surtsey: The Newest Place on Earth (1992)
  • Monarchs (1993)
  • Searching for Laura Ingalls (1993)
  • Days of the Dead (1994)
  • The Most Beautiful Roof in the World (1997)
  • Shadows in the Dawn: The Lemurs of Madagascar (1998)
  • Interrupted Journey: Saving Endangered Sea Turtles (2001)
  • John Muir: America's First Environmentalist (2006)
  • Georgia Rises: A Day in the Life of Georgia O'Keeffe (2009)

Picture Books

  • My Island Grandma (1979)
  • Sea Swan (1988)
  • I Have an Aunt on Marlborough Street (1992)
  • Cloud Eyes (1994)
  • The Librarian Who Measured the Earth (1994)
  • The Gates of the Wind (1995)
  • Pond Year (1995)
  • She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head! (1995)
  • Lunch Bunnies (1996)
  • Hercules: The Man, The Myth, The Hero (1997)
  • Marven of the Great North Woods (1997)
  • A Brilliant Streak (1998)
  • Show and Tell Bunnies (1998)
  • Sophie and Rose (1998)
  • The Emperor's Old Clothes (1999)
  • First Painter (1999)
  • Lucille's Snowsuit (2000)
  • Science Fair Bunnies (2000)
  • Vision of Beauty (2000)
  • Born in the Breezes: The Voyages Of Joshua Slocum (2001)
  • Starring Lucille (2001)
  • Porkenstein (2002)
  • Before I was Your Mother (2003)
  • Lucille Camps In (2003)
  • The Man Who Made Time Travel (2003)
  • Mommy's Hands (2003)
  • A Voice of Her Own: The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet (2003)
  • Humphrey, Albert, and the Flying Machine (2004)
  • Love That Baby (2004)
  • Tumble Bunnies (2005)
  • Pirate Bob (2006)
  • Two Bad Pilgrims (2009)
  • Poodle and Hound (2009)
  • Felix Takes the Stage (2010)

Adults

  • Trace Elements (1986) (as Kathryn Lasky Knight)
  • The Widow of Oz (1989) (as Kathryn Lasky Knight)
  • Mortal Words (1990) (as Kathryn Lasky Knight)
  • Mumbo Jumbo (1991) (as Kathryn Lasky Knight)
  • Dark Swan (1994) (as Kathryn Lasky Knight)
  • Night Gardening (1999) (written under the pseudonym of E.L. Swann)