Kathryn Lasky is an American author whose work includes several Dear America

Dear America

Dear America is a series of historical fiction novels for older girls published by Scholastic in 1996. The series was cancelled in 2004 with its final release, Hear My Sorrow. However, it was relaunched in the fall of 2010. Each book is written in the form of a diary of a young woman's life during...

 books, The Royal Diaries

The Royal Diaries

The Royal Diaries is a series of twenty books published by Scholastic Press from 1999 to 2005. In each of the books, a fictional diary of a real female figure of royalty as a child throughout world history was written by the author. The Royal Diaries was a spin-off of Scholastic's popular Dear...

 books, Sugaring Time, The Night Journey

The Night Journey (novel)

The Night Journey is a 1981 novel by Kathryn Lasky.-Plot Overview:Nana Sashie tells her great-grandchild, Rachel, of her escape from Russia during the Holocaust. Nana Sashie refuses to eat for a week with the intention of dying, and passes away...

, and the Guardians of Ga'Hoole

Guardians of Ga'Hoole

Guardians of Ga’Hoole is a fantasy book series written by Kathryn Lasky and published by Scholastic. The series, which ended in 2008 with the publication of The War of the Ember, has a total of fifteen books. Apart from the main series there are a few more books and spin offs set in the same universe...

 series.

Biography

Lasky grew up in Indianapolis

Indianapolis

Indianapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population is 839,489. It is by far Indiana's largest city and, as of the 2010 U.S...

, and is married to Christopher Knight, with whom she lives in Cambridge, MA. She received a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

 and a master’s degree in early childhood education from Wheelock College

Wheelock College

Wheelock College is a private, coeducational college located in Boston, Massachusetts. The school was founded in 1888 by Lucy Wheelock. The mission of Wheelock College is to primarily improve the lives of children and families...

. She is also a non-fiction writer of other books.

The Royal Diaries

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

Dear America

• A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620
  A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620
  A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620 is a historical novel for young girls. It is the first book in the series Dear America.-Plot Overview:...
  
  
• Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman a Jewish Immigrant Girl, New York City, 1903
• Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1932
• A Time for Courage:The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen, Washington, D.C., 1917

My Name Is America

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

My America

• Hope In My Heart, Sofia's Ellis Island Diary
• Home at Last: Sofia's Immigrant Diary
• An American Spring: Sofia's Immigrant Diary

Starbuck Family Adventures

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

Guardians of Ga'Hoole

• The Capture
  Guardians of Ga'Hoole: The Capture
  The Capture is the first book in the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series. It is written by Kathryn Lasky, and was published by Scholastic on June 1, 2003. The book tells the story of Soren, a Barn Owl, who is kidnapped and taken to St...
  
  
• The Journey
  Guardians of Ga'Hoole: The Journey
  The Journey is the second book in the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series. It is written by Kathryn Lasky, and was published by Scholastic on September 1, 2003. In this book, Soren, Gylfie, Twilight, Digger, and Mrs...
  
  
• The Rescue
• The Siege
• The Shattering
• The Burning
  Guardians of Ga'hoole: The Burning
  The Burning is the sixth novel in the Guardians of Ga'Hoole book series.- Plot :The book begins with the Chaw of Chaws flying to the Northern kingdoms to deliver Dewlap to the Glauxian Sisters' Retreat. After that, the Chaw breaks up into two groups, one to find Moss, an old warrior, and another to...
  
  
• The Hatchling
• The Outcast
• The First Collier
• The Coming of Hoole
• To Be a King
• The Golden Tree
• The River of Wind
• Exile
• The War of the Ember
• A Guide Book to the Great Tree
• Lost Tales of Ga'Hoole

Wolves Of The Beyond

• Lone Wolf
• Shadow Wolf
• Watch Wolf
• Frost Wolf
• The Wolves From The Beyond Field Guide

Standalone titles

• The Last Girls of Pompeii
• Blood Secret
  Blood Secret
  Blood Secret is a young adult novel by Kathryn Lasky.-Plot summary:Fourteen-year-old Jerry Luna refuses to speak after her mother's disappearance. Living at her great-great-aunt Constanza's house, she discovers a trunk and is transported into the lives of her Jewish ancestors living in Spain in the...
  
  
• Broken Song
• Star Split
• Alice Rose and Sam
• True North
  True North (novel)
  True North is a 1996 historical novel for young adults by Kathryn Lasky, and published by Scholastic Corporation Set in 1850s America, it is a story about the Underground Railroad...
  
  
• Beyond the Burning Time
• Memoirs of a Bookbat'
• The Bone Wars
• Pageant
• Beyond the Divide
• The Night Journey
  The Night Journey (novel)
  The Night Journey is a 1981 novel by Kathryn Lasky.-Plot Overview:Nana Sashie tells her great-grandchild, Rachel, of her escape from Russia during the Holocaust. Nana Sashie refuses to eat for a week with the intention of dying, and passes away...
  
  
• Prank
• Hawksmaid
• Ashes
• Chasing Orion
• Home Free

Children young adults non-fiction

• 3038 Staat der Klone
• John Muir: America's First Environmentalist
• Interrupted Journey: Saving Endangered Sea Turtles
• Shadows in the Dawn: The Lemurs of Madagascar
• The Most Beautiful Roof in the World
• Sugaring Time
• Days of the Dead
• Searching for Laura Ingalls
• Monarchs
• Surtsey: The Newest Place on Earth
• Dinosaur Dig
• Traces of Life
• A Baby for Max

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, and the Flying Machine
• Before I was Your Mother
• The Man Who Made Time Travel
• A Voice of Her Own: The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet
• Love That Baby
• Mommy's Hands
• Porkenstein
• Born in the Breezes: The Voyages Of Joshua Slocum
• Vision of Beauty
• First Painter
• The Emperor's Old Clothes
• Sophie and Rose
• Marven of the Great North Woods
• A Brilliant Streak
• Hercules: The Man, The Myth, The Hero
• The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
• She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head!
• The Gates of the Wind
• Pond Year
• Cloud Eyes
• I Have an Aunt on Marlborough Street
• Sea Swan
• My Island Grandma

Adult

• Night Gardening (written under the pseudonym
  Pseudonym
  A pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...
  
   of E.L. Swann)
• Dark Swan
• Mumbo Jumbo
• Mortal Words
• Trace Elements
• The Widow of Oz

External links

• Kathryn Lasky
• Interview with Kathryn Lasky by OwlPages.com
• Interview with Kathryn Lasky at BookReviewsAndMore.ca