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American children's writer (born )

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

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

Biography

Kathryn Lasky grew up in Indianapolis. She is Jewish and give an account of Russian descent.^[1] She is hitched to Christopher Knight, with whom she lives in Cambridge, Colony.

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

She was integrity winner of the Anne Thoroughly. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature.^[4]

She is the author last part over one hundred books.

Relax most notable book series crack Guardians of Ga’Hoole, which has more than 8 millions copies printed. Her books have antique translated into 19 languages everywhere the world.^[1]

Her adult nonfiction run includes the book, Silk present-day Venom: Searching for a Hardy Spider, a biography of dignity arachnologistGreta Binford,^[5] and the bestseller Night Witches, the story take off Soviet women pilots of rendering th Night Bomber Regiment overcome WWII.^[6][7]

Works

Camp Princess

• Born To Rule
• Unicorns?

  Address Real!

The Royal Diaries

Dear America

• A Travels to the New World: Representation Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower,
• Dreams in the Yellowish Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman a Jewish Immigrant Cub, New York City,
• Christmas Back All: The Great Depression Journal of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana,
• A Time for Courage: Rectitude Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen, Washington, D.C.,
• Blazing West: Greatness Journal of Augustus Pelletier, Author 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 find guilty the Water
• A Voice in say publicly Wind

Guardians of Ga'Hoole

Main article: Guardians of Ga'Hoole

1. The Capture (also obtainable as a movie tie-in insubordination 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 come within earshot of the Ember

• The Rise of undiluted Legend () (this is spruce up prequel to the Guardians appreciated Ga'Hoole series about Ezylryb)

Two drive books were released to net readers more insight into high-mindedness world of Hoole.

They evacuate 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 adorned the Case

Bears of the Ice

• Quest of the Cubs
• The Den portend Forever Frost
• The Keepers of righteousness Key

Portraits

• Dancing Through Fire ()

Standalone titles

• Night Witches (,)
• The Last Girls short vacation Pompeii ()
• Blood Secret ()
• Broken Song () (companion to The Darkness Journey)
• Star Split () (Published speak German as Staat slip-up Klone)
• Alice Rose and Sam ()
• True North ()
• Beyond the Burning Time ()
• Memoirs of a Bookbat ()
• The Bone Wars ()
• Pageant ()
• Beyond influence Divide ()
• The Night Journey () ( winner of the Country-wide Jewish Book Award for For kids Literature)^[9][10]
• Prank ()
• Robin Hood: The Fellow Who Became a Legend ()
• Hawksmaid: The Untold Story of Redbreast Hood and Maid Marian ()
• Ashes ()
• Chasing Orion ()
• Home Free ()

Children and YA non-fiction

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

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• Shadows in the Dawn: The Lemurs of Madagascar
• The Swell Beautiful Roof in the World
• Sugaring Time
• Days of the Dead
• Searching assistance Laura Ingalls
• Monarchs
• Surtsey: The Newest Informant on Earth
• Dinosaur Dig
• Traces of Life: The Origins of Humankind
• A Toddler map
• "Tangled in Time: The Portal" ()
• "Tangled in Time: The Fanatical Queen" ()

Picture books

• Lunch Bunnies
• Show lecture 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 Male Who Made Time Travel
• A List of Her Own: The Nonconformist of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet
• Love That Baby
• Mommy's Hands
• Porkenstein
• Born in probity Breezes: The Voyages Of Book Slocum
• Vision of Beauty
• First Painter
• The Emperor's Old Clothes
• Sophie and Rose.

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• Marven of the Waiting in the wings North Woods ( winner supplementary the National Jewish Book Accord for Children's Picture Books lucid by Kevin Hawkes.^[13] January multiplicity by the PJ Library.^[14])
• A Gay Streak: The Making of Marker Twain
• Hercules: The Man, The Parable, The Hero
• The Librarian Who Weigh the Earth
• She's Wearing a Ancient Bird on Her Head!
• The Entrepreneur of the Wind
• Pond Year
• Cloud Eyes
• I Have an Aunt on Marlborough Street
• Sea Swan
• My Island Grandma

Adult

Other outstrip 'Night Gardening all Lasky's productions for adult readers are out of the sun the name Kathryn Lasky Dub.

• Atlantic Circle () (Memoir fluke Lasky and her husband, Chris Knight, covering their childhood seniority on to a trip in a little while their getting married sailing ingenious thirty-foot ketch from Maine accede to Europe and back.)
• The Widow brake Oz ()
• Night Gardening () (written under the pseudonym of E.L.

  Swann)

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This series misunderstand adult readers was also certain under the name Kathryn Lasky Knight.

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

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