Download or read book Presenting Kathryn Lasky written by Joanne Brown and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles author Kathryn Lasky, and covers such topics as how her life has influenced her work and writing historical fiction.
Download or read book A Journey to the New World The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple Mayflower 1620 Dear America written by Kathryn Lasky and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newbery Honor author Kathryn Lasky's A JOURNEY TO THE NEW WORLD is now back in print with a gorgeous new package!Twelve-year-old Remember Patience Whipple ("Mem" for short) has just arrived in the New World with her parents after a grueling 65-day journey on the MAYFLOWER. Mem has an irrepressible spirit, and leaps headfirst into life in her new home. Despite harsh conditions, Mem is fearless. She helps to care for the sick and wants more than anything to meet and befriend a Native American.
Download or read book Porkenstein written by Kathryn Lasky and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lonely after the Big Bad Wolf ate his brothers, Dr. Smart Pig tries to invent a friend--with surprising results.
Download or read book Dinosaur Dig written by Kathryn Lasky and published by StarWalk Kids Media. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Badlands of Montana, many stories are waiting to be told – about Triceratops and Ankylosaurus and ancient crocodiles. There, scientists search for the bones of animals that lived millions of years ago. In Dinosaur Dig, Kathryn Lasky and Christopher G. Knight, the award-winning writer-and-photographer team, describe the dirty, sweaty, and exciting job they and five other families perform as they search for fossils in the Badlands. Dinosaur Dig is a feast of keen observation, magnificent photography, and information about Earth’s ancient past. Like any good story, it captures expectations and disappointments, close calls, and finally success as the diggers uncover and race to preserve the bones of a creature that died 67 million years ago.
Download or read book More Than Magic written by Kathryn Lasky and published by Wendy Lamb Books. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Girls who enjoy spunky heroines such as Merida from Brave (Disney/Pixar) and Ella from Ella Enchanted will want to join Rory and Ryder in their adventures in our world—and the world beyond the TV. An exciting new middle-grade fantasy from Kathryn Lasky, bestselling author of the Guardians of Ga’Hoole series. Ryder Holmsby is the same age as Rory, the popular TV cartoon character her animator parents created. Ryder and Rory are alike—bold and brave! But Ryder is a bit lonely: Mom passed away a couple of years ago, and Dad is dating a woman with snooty teenage daughters. Ryder doesn’t fit in with them at all. And then: Shazam! Rory jumps out of the TV into Ryder’s bedroom to tell her that the TV studio behind her parents’ show is trying to turn Rory into a dopey princess—no more adventures. She needs Ryder’s help! The two girls team up with a crew of animated and real-life friends to save the day in both worlds. Kathryn Lasky, bestselling author of the Guardians of Ga’hoole series, the Wolves of the Beyond series, and the Horses of the Dawn series, delivers a whimsical tale in which inner strength is the greatest form of magic.
Download or read book The Rise of a Legend Guardians of Ga Hoole written by Kathryn Lasky and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Kathryn Lasky takes flight once more with a brand-new Guardians of Ga'Hoole novel! An owlet hatches out onto Stormfast Island and into a world torn by war. For one hundred years, his people have fought off enemy owls from the Ice Talons, but the tide has turned. An invasion is coming, one the Kielian League won't have the strength to resist. Soon the tyrant owl Bylyric will rule over everything, and no honorable owl will be safe. Only the small owl from Stormfast stands between Bylyric and total victory. Lyze is not very impressive to look at, but he has a wild idea for a snake and owl strike unit that just might give the soldiers of the Kielian League the edge they need.This is his story, the story of an ordinary owl who rose to become Ezylryb of the Great Tree. This is the story of what it takes to make a Guardian of Ga'Hoole.
Download or read book The Capture written by Kathryn Lasky and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A young Barn Owl named Soren lives peacefully with his family. After he is pushed from his nest by his older brother, his idyllic world transforms into one of confusion and danger, as he is captured by evil chick-snatching owls and taken to the St Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls"--Goodreads.com.
Download or read book Tumble Bunnies written by Kathryn Lasky and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feeling untalented in the team sports scheduled for his school's Sports Spectacular, Clyde the rabbit develops his own event, a freestyle tumbling routine with a dazzling move called the "twirly burly."
Download or read book The Coming of Hoole Guardians of Ga Hoole 10 written by Kathryn Lasky and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest soaring installment of Kathryn Lasky's NYT bestselling Ga'Hoole seriesGrank raises the hatchling deep in a forest far from owls that would kill the royal chick named Hoole to end the kingly line. His mother comes to visit, in disguise, and departs again. Not even the chick must know his mother's identity. It would give him away as Hrath's heir. Sent by an evil warlord, a hagsfiend attempts to lure young Hoole away when he first learns to fly. Grank realizes that the same evil forces that killed Hrath are after Hoole, and know where he is. To keep him safe, Grank brings him to Beyond the Beyond, a strange land of fiery volcanoes in a barren, icy landscape.(more)
Download or read book Marven of the Great North Woods written by Kathryn Lasky and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his Jewish parents send him to a Minnesota logging camp to escape the influenza epidemic of 1918, ten-year-old Marven finds a special friend.
Download or read book The Librarian Who Measured the Earth written by Kathryn Lasky and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2008-11-16 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colorfully illustrated biography of the Greek philosopher and scientist Eratosthenes, who compiled the first geography book and accurately measured the globe's circumference.
Download or read book The First Collier Guardians of Ga Hoole 9 written by Kathryn Lasky and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fantastic prequel trilogy to the bestselling series GUARDIANS OF GA'HOOLE begins!It is a time of Legends and a time of chaos. Warlords vie for power and marauding outlaws roam the land. Good King Hrath and his queen, Siv, noble Spotted Owls struggle to keep peace in their kingdom. Grank, noble Spotted Owl, friend and supporter of King Hrath, has exiled himself to Beyond the Beyond, where he has developed his firesight and learns how to work with embers, fire and how to forge metals. He is the First Collier. Deep in a volcano in the farthest reaches of Beyond the Beyond, he discovers a magical Ember but fears its awful powers will be misused and hides it again. (continued)
Download or read book Blood Secret written by Kathryn Lasky and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The minute she had opened the trunk, she knew there wasn't anything like hope in it. Just awful musty things, but each one with a kind of terrible dark halo around it. She picked up that piece of old lace. She saw that stain -- pale, brownish in color. She knew it was blood. Somebody's blood. There was violence in that trunk, and dark secrets, and she did not want to know them. Curious about the old homestead where she now lives, Jerry finds an ancient trunk in the basement that contains, among other things, an old piece of bloodstained lace, some letters, and a battered doll. The objects in the trunk have stories to tell -- stories about the Spanish Inquisition spanning nearly five hundred years and stories of secrets locked deep in the bloodlines of Jerry's ancestors. Kathryn Lasky's powerhouse novel is a dramatic historical saga that brings the reader face-to-face with some of the worst atrocities ever committed against humankind in the name of God. But above all, it is an unforgettable coming-of-age story about a girl who, in connecting with her own past and faith, is at last able to face her own demons and liberate not only herself but also future generations of her family from the long chain of suffering and silence.
Download or read book The Emperor s Old Clothes written by Kathryn Lasky and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2002-04-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows about the emperor's new clothes. But what ever happened to his "old clothes?
Download or read book The Night Journey written by Kathryn Lasky and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 1986-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl ignores her parents' wishes and persuades her great-grandmother to relate the story of her escape from czarist Russia.
Download or read book On the Same Page written by Janet Allen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maya Angelou says, Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning. On the Same Page celebrates the use of our voices in shared reading with students to help them gain deeper understanding of the texts we read. If you have enjoyed the increased engagement and motivation that accompany reading with your students and wondered how to extend those benefits throughout the day, this book offers support for using this approach as a foundation for learning across content areas. On the Same Page explores the use of shared reading as an instructional approach for readers and writers at all levels of language proficiency. Janet Allen provides research, resources, practical ideas, and strategies for building from shared reading to increase students' literate experiences in a variety of curricular and instructional areas:strategic reading and comprehension;building background knowledge for content literacy;personal, academic, and public writing;transitions to independent reading;community knowledge and literature circles;increased vocabulary;modeled fluency. On the Same Page is enriched with a wide range of student work as well as extensive appendices of additional resources, graphic organizers, suggested reading lists, and teaching guides for implementation of shared reading in your classroom.
Download or read book The Distant Mirror written by Joanne Brown and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005-12-08 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young adult historical fiction brings the past alive through stories of adventure, suspense, and mystery. The genre is both complex and controversial, encompassing novels that range from romance and fantasy to stark historical realism. The book examines the various approaches to young adult historical fiction and explores the issues that it has engendered. Part One focuses on the broader issues spawned by the genre itself, including its various subgenres - the line between fiction and fact; to what degree must an author adhere to historical accuracy?; time boundaries; the diary format; the protagonist as the outsider; who is entitled to write what?; and literary concerns such as the relationship between accuracy and readability. Part Two explores issues of contemporary interest, such as race, class, gender, the immigrant experience, religion, war, and nationalism. Thought-provoking discussions of how these elements are treated in historical novels, with emphasis on how current cultural values have shaped the fiction, are presented. Finally, the question of whether novels in this genre are bound by anything other than their respective period setting is posed, and it is contended that there are features common to YA historical novels that not only set the genre apart from other YA fiction, but also contribute something unique to the larger genre. The genesis for much classroom debate, suggestions for class discussions and writing assignments as well as sample written responses of these debates from the authors' classes are included. Teachers, librarians, instructors of young adult literature courses, and teen readers will find this an insightful analysis of YA historical fiction.
