Kathryn Lasky
1) Lone wolf
Author
Series
Wolves of the Beyond volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Abandoned by his pack, a baby wolf with a mysterious mark on his deformed paw survives and embarks on a journey that will change the world of the wolves of the Beyond.
2) The capture
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
3) Pirate Bob
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2008, c2006
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of a pirate, named simply Bob, whose job is to cut the steering cables and cripple the ships he and his shipmates will loot.
4) A journey to the New World: the diary of Remember Patience Whipple : Mayflower/Plimoth Colony, 1620
Author
Series
Dear America volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
173 p. ill., maps 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
5) The siege
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Enraged by his clash with Soren and driven by and all-consuming desire for power, Kludd and his group, the Pure Ones, launch an attack upon the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. The noble owls who live there must fight fiercely to protect their resources and defend their honor."--P. 4 cover.
6) Shadow wolf
Author
Series
Wolves of the Beyond volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Language
English
Description
After earning the right to return to the wolf pack that abandoned him, the exiled Faolan joins the clan as a lowly "gnaw wolf," but his goal of rising in the pack order is threatened when a jealous rival frames him for an unspeakable crime.
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
176 p. : ill., map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Soren's sister, Eglantine, si falling under the spell of a strange nightly dream. Then, just as Soren notices her trancelike state, Eglantine disappears, and the dreams become a deadly waking nightmare that puts the Great Tree of Ga'Hoole in terrible danger."--P. [4] of cover.
8) The journey
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
244 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The second book in the GUARDIANS OF GA'HOOLE series continues this classic hero mythology about the battle between good and evil. This book chronicles Soren's quest for nobility.In the second book in the GUARDIANS OF GA'HOOLE series, Soren, Gylfie, Twilight, and Digger travel to the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, a mythical place where an order of owls rises each night to perform noble deeds. Soren and his group are seeking help to fight the evil they discovered...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
237 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
10) The burning
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
210 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Soren and his band must fly to the mysterious Northern Kingdoms to find allies against the Pure Ones who are about to launch another deadly attack against the great tree.
11) The rescue
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
197 p. : ill., map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Even though Soren was kidnapped and taken to the St. Aegolius School for Orphaned Owls, he has longed to see his sister, Eglantine, again. Now Eglantine is back in Soren's life, but she's been through an ordeal too terrible for words. And Ezylryb, Soren's mentor, has disappeared ... In order to rescue him, Soren must embark upon a perilous quest."--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
236 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1769, thirteen-year-old Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, begins a journal chronicling her life at the Austrian court and her preparations for her future role as queen of France.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Description
A biography of John Muir, naturalist and founder of the Sierra Club, whose travels, speeches and writings led directly to the creation of the Yosemite National Park in 1890 and other national parks that followed. From the meadows of Scotland to the farms of Wisconsin, from the swamps of Florida to the Alaskan tundra, John Muir loved the land. Born in 1838, he was a writer, a scholar, an inventor, a shepherd, a farmer, and an explorer, but above all,...
14) Lunch bunnies
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
©1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Clyde, the rabbit, is ready to start school, but after talking with his brother, he is worried about what will happen at lunchtime.
16) The hatchling
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 7
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
222 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nyroc must decide whether to lead the evil Pure Ones against the good owls or to fight on the side of the good ones.
17) The outcast
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 8
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
207 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nyroc has glimpsed a new destiny in the of his father's bones. In search of that destiny leaves for The Beyond the Beyond.
18) The escape
Author
Series
Horses of the dawn volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
219 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Estrella is a filly, daughter of the lead mare, one of a shipment of horses bound for the new world, but when the ship is becalmed and the horses are dropped overboard to lighten the load, Estrella finds that it is up to her to lead the herd to land and safety.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
186 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Beginning in 1627, Princess Jahanara, first daughter of Shah Jahan of India's Mogul Dynasty, writes in her diary about political intrigues, weddings, battles, and other experiences of her life. Includes historical notes on Jahanara's later life and on the Mogul Empire.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c1995
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of the activities of Harriet Hemenway and Minna Hall, founders of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, a late nineteenth-century Audubon Society that would endure and have impact on the bird-protection movement.
