Kathryn Lasky
41) El Pirata Bob
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Español
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.
43) Lucille camps in
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
When Lucille is upset that she can not go camping with her father and older siblings, she and her mother decide to go camping inside the house.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
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A diary account of thirteen-year-old Kathleen Bowen's life in Washington, D.C. in 1917, as she juggles concerns about the national battle for women's suffrage, the war in Europe, and her own school work and family. Includes a historical note.
47) Wild blood
Author
Series
Horses of the dawn volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The filly Estrella, her human friend, Tio, and her small herd of horses have temporarily escaped from the evil human El Miedo, but he has not given up, and as the dawn horses keep searching for the sweet grasses that will give them strength, new friends--and enemies--both human and animal, will emerge from the shadows.
Author
Series
Tangled in time volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"Newly orphaned Rose finds herself time-traveling between present day and the court of the two most memorable English princesses in history."--Publisher's description.
49) Star rise
Author
Series
Horses of the dawn volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
As the filly Estrella leads her herd north to good grass and water, the stallion Hold On, blinded in the canyon fire, is found by the human boy Tijo, who has an ability to understand horses that sets him apart from other humans--but when Hold On and Tijo catch up with the herd, Estrella must decide whether or not the horses should accept this boy or drive him away.
50) The haunting
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Deep in the wilds of Scotland, land of ancient warrior kings and myths, there is a deep secret. The secret is a colony of beavers, a species that is craved for their fur pelts, but vilified for what humans consider to be the destruction of their land. No beaver has been spotted in Scotland or England for over five hundred years, until the young beaver, Dunwattle, is sighted! Dunwattle's flight is driven by the presence of a ghostly figure, a figure...
51) The searchers
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
When swan Elsinore, the beavers' beloved mother figure, is kidnapped by dark forces, Dunwattle and Locksley set out to find her, but little do they know, they have a much larger expedition in store when they discover other persecuted animals being held against their will for nefarious purposes.
54) Two bad pilgrims
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Brothers Francis and Johnny Billington take issue with history's account of their troublemaking ways aboard the Mayflower and in the New World, as they tell their side of the story to Standish Brewster, professor of Pilgrimology at Plimouth University.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
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,...
57) Monarchs
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
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Describes the life cycle and winter migrations of the eastern and western monarch butterflies and the two towns that protect their winter habitats.
59) Lucy
Author
Series
Daughters of the sea volume 3
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Lucy's father, a minister, gets a prestigious summer position in Bar Harbor, Maine, her mother determines to find a rich husband for her daughter but Lucy is fascinated by the sea and a handsome ship-builder.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Julia knows that her physical deformity will keep her from a normal life, but counts on the continuing friendship of her life-long slave, Mitka, until they learn that both of their futures in first-century Pompeii are about to change for the worse.