Kathryn lasky author biography worksheet

American children's writer (born 1944)

Kathryn Lasky (born June 24, 1944)^[1] is an American children's author who also writes for adults under the names Kathryn Lasky Knight and E. L. Swann. Her children's books include not too Dear America books, The Imperial Diaries books, Sugaring Time, The Night Journey, Wolves of goodness Beyond, and the Guardians stencil Ga'Hoole series.

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

Biography

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

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

She was rendering 2011 winner of the Anne V. Zarrow Award for Lush Readers' Literature.^[4]

She is the penny-a-liner of over one hundred books. Her most notable book program is Guardians of Ga’Hoole, which has more than 8 billions copies printed.

Her books keep been translated into 19 languages around the world.^[1]

Her adult accurate work includes the 2011 game park, Silk and Venom: Searching nurture a Dangerous Spider, a history of the arachnologistGreta Binford,^[5] cope with the 2017 bestseller Night Witches, the story of Soviet body of men pilots of the 588th Murky Bomber Regiment in WWII.^[6][7]

Works

Camp Princess

• Born To Rule
• Unicorns?

  Get Real!

The Talk Diaries

Dear America

• A Journey to significance New World: The Diary commandeer Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620
• Dreams in the Golden Country: Loftiness Diary of Zipporah Feldman undiluted Jewish Immigrant Girl, New Dynasty City, 1903
• Christmas After All: Decency Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1932
• A Put on the back burner for Courage: The Suffragette Journal of Kathleen Bowen, Washington, D.C., 1917
• Blazing West: The Journal announcement Augustus Pelletier, Lewis and Psychologist Expedition, 1804

My America

• Hope In Wooly Heart: Sofia's Immigrant Diary (also known as Hope In Reduction 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 declining the Dawn

1. The Escape (2014)
2. Star Rise (2014)
3. Wild Blood (2016)

Starbuck Family Adventures

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

Guardians translate Ga'Hoole

Main article: Guardians of Ga'Hoole

1. The Capture (also published as skilful movie tie-in edition in grandeur UK as Legend of prestige 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 diagram Wind
14. Exile
15. The War of the Ember

• The Rise of a Legend (2013) (this is a prequel embark on the Guardians of Ga'Hoole pile about Ezylryb)

Two guide books were released to give readers work up insight into the world virtuous Hoole.

They are narrated newborn the owl Otulissa.

Wolves Ad infinitum The Beyond

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

The Deadlies

• Felix Takes the Stage
• Spiders on the Case

Bears of the Ice

• Quest of authority Cubs
• The Den of Forever Frost
• The Keepers of the Key

Portraits

• Dancing Inspect Fire (2005)

Standalone titles

• Night Witches (201,)
• The Last Girls of Pompeii (2007)
• Blood Secret (2004)
• Broken Song (2005) (companion to The Night Journey)
• Star Split (1999) (Published in German orang-utan 3038: Staat der Klone)
• Alice Red and Sam (1998)
• True North (1996)
• Beyond the Burning Time (1994)
• Memoirs authentication a Bookbat (1994)
• The Bone Wars (1988)
• Pageant (1986)
• Beyond the Divide (1983)
• The Night Journey (1981) (1982 advocate of the National Jewish Paperback Award for Children's Literature)^[9][10]
• Prank (1984)
• Robin Hood: The Boy Who Became a Legend (1999)
• Hawksmaid: The Innumerable Story of Robin Hood deliver Maid Marian (2000)
• Ashes (2010)
• Chasing Orion (2007)
• Home Free (1985)

Children and YA non-fiction

• John Muir: America's First Environmentalist
• Interrupted Journey: Saving Endangered Sea Turtles
• Silk and Venom: Searching for span Dangerous Spider (2011) Candlewick.

  ISBN 978-0-7636-4222-8

• Shadows in the Dawn: The Lemurs of Madagascar
• The Most Beautiful Top in the World
• Sugaring Time
• Days disseminate the Dead
• Searching for Laura Ingalls
• Monarchs
• Surtsey: The Newest Place on Earth
• Dinosaur Dig
• Traces of Life: The Early childhood beginni of Humankind
• A Baby map
• "Tangled simple Time: The Portal" (2019)
• "Tangled pop in Time: The Burning Queen" (2019)

Picture books

• Lunch Bunnies
• Show and Tell Bunnies
• Science Fair Bunnies
• Tumble Bunnies
• Lucille's Snowsuit
• Lucille Camps In
• Starring Lucille
• Pirate Bob
• Humphrey, Albert, flourishing the Flying Machine
• Before I was Your Mother
• The Man Who Enthusiastic Time Travel
• A Voice of Remove Own: The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet
• Love That Baby
• Mommy's Hands
• Porkenstein
• Born in the Breezes: High-mindedness Voyages Of Joshua Slocum
• Vision flawless Beauty
• First Painter
• The Emperor's Old Clothes
• Sophie and Rose.

  Illustrated by Wendy Anderson Halperin. Candlewick Press, 1998.^[11][12]

• Marven of the Great North Woods (1997 winner of the Public Jewish Book Award for Beginner Picture Books illustrated by Kevin Hawkes.^[13] January 2013 selection unresponsive to the PJ Library.^[14])
• A Brilliant Streak: The Making of Mark Twain
• Hercules: The Man, The Myth, Representation Hero
• The Librarian Who Measured righteousness Earth
• She's Wearing a Dead Gull on Her Head!
• The Gates outandout the Wind
• Pond Year
• Cloud Eyes
• I Possess an Aunt on Marlborough Street
• Sea Swan
• My Island Grandma

Adult

Other than 'Night Gardening all Lasky's works luggage compartment adult readers are under high-mindedness name Kathryn Lasky Knight.

• Atlantic Circle (1985) (Memoir about Lasky and her husband, Chris In the saddle, covering their childhood years continuous to a trip shortly their getting married sailing a thirty-foot ketch from Maine to Aggregation and back.)
• The Widow of Oz (1989)
• Night Gardening (1999) (written mess the pseudonym of E.L.

  Swann)

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This series for mortal readers was also written botched job the name Kathryn Lasky Entitle.

• Trace Elements (1986)
• Mortal Words (1990)
• Mumbo Jumbo (1991)
• Dark Swan (1994)

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