Kathryn Lasky is the American author of many critically acclaimed books, including several Dear America books, several Royal Diaries books, 1984 Newbery Honor winning Sugaring Time, The Night Journey, and the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series. She was born June 24, 1944, and grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana, and is married to Christopher Knight, with whom she lives in Massachusetts. Book 15, The War of the Ember, is currently the last book in the Ga'Hoole series. The Rise of a Legend is the 16th book but is a prequel to the series. Lasky has also written Guide Book To The Great Tree and Lost Tales Of Ga'Hoole which are companion books.
Series
Books
Fourth of July Bear
1991
The Secret of Glendunny
The Haunting
2022
Lucille's Snowsuit
1902
Born In The Breezes
The Voyages Of Joshua Slocum
2001
Born to Rule
2006
Lone Wolf
2010
Frost Wolf
2011
Alice Rose and Sam
1998
True North
1996
Star Rise
2015
Double Trouble Squared
1991
Star Split
1999
The Siege
2004
I Have an Aunt on Marlborough Street
1992
The Capture
2003
She Caught the Light
Williamina Stevens Fleming: Astronomer
2021
The Escape
2014
The Journal of Augustus Pelletier
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804
2000
The Man Who Made Time Travel
2003
The Emperor's Old Clothes
1999
Georgia Rises
A Day in the Life of Georgia O'Keeffe
2005
The Night Journey
1985
Shadows in the Water
1992
My Island Grandma
1979
Porkenstein
2002
Pirate Bob
2006
Dragonbusters? Give Me a Break!
2014
Felix Takes The Stage
2010
Show and Tell Bunnies
1998
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
1994
The Golden Tree
2007
The Outcast
2005
Pond Year
1995
Ashes
2010
The First Collier
2005
Christmas After All
The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1932
2001
The Hatchling
2005
Surtsey
The Newest Place on Earth
1900
Dreams in the Golden Country
The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl, New York City, 1903
1998
Watch Wolf
2011
An American Spring
Sofia's Immigrant Diary
2004
Broken Song
2005
Memoirs of a Bookbat
1994
Glass
A Cinderella Tale
2024
Shadow Wolf
2010
The River of Wind
2007
The Most Beautiful Roof in the World
Exploring the Rainforest Canopy
1997
Mommy's Hands
2002
The Gates of the Wind
1995
Starring Lucille
2001
Light on Bone
2022
Beyond the Burning Time
1994
The Coming of Hoole
2006
Two Bad Pilgrims
2009
Tangled in Time
The Portal
2019
Tangled in Time 2
The Burning Queen
2019
The Extra
2013
Elizabeth I
Red Rose of the House of Tudor, England, 1544
1999
Lucy
2012
A Voice in the Wind
1993
Humphrey, Albert, and the Flying Machine
2004
A Brilliant Streak
The Making of Mark Twain
1998
Before I Was Your Mother
2003
One Beetle Too Many
The Extraordinary Adventures of Charles Darwin
2006
A Journey to the New World
The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620
1996
Vision of Beauty
The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker
2000
Lucille Camps In
2003
Star Wolf
2013
Home at Last
Sofia's Immigrant Diary
2003
More Than Magic
2016
Wild Blood
2016
Spirit Wolf
2012
First Painter
2000
Spiders on the Case
2011
Interrupted Journey
Saving Endangered Sea Turtles
2001
Blood Secret
2004
The Rescue
2003
Newton's Rainbow
The Revolutionary Discoveries of a Young Scientist
2017
The Quest of the Cubs
2018
The Royal Diaries - Eleanor
Crown Jewel of Aquitaine; Mary Queen of Scots; Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles
2025
Mary, Queen of Scots
Queen Without a Country, France, 1553
2002
John Muir
America's First Environmentalist
2006
The Journey
2003
The Rise of a Legend
2013
Sophie and Rose
1998
Beyond the Divide
1983
Kazunomiya
Prisoner of Heaven, Japan 1858
2004
Dancing Through Fire
2005
Lunch Bunnies
1996
Marie Antoinette
Princess of Versailles, Austria - France, 1769
2000
Love That Baby!
2003
The Den of Forever Frost
2018
Hawksmaid
The Untold Story of Robin Hood and Maid Marian
2010
Tumble Bunnies
2005
The Burning
2004
Guardians of Ga'hoole Boxed Set
Books 1-4
2003
The War of the Ember
2008
Hercules
The Man, The Myth, The Hero
1997
A Time For Courage
The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen, Washington D.C., 1917
2002
To Be a King
2006
The Bone Wars
1988
Unicorns? Get Real!
2007
Hope In My Heart
Sofia's Immigrant Diary
2003
Pageant
1986
Jahanara
Princess of Princesses, India, 1627
2002
Grace The Pirate
1997
Monarchs
1993
Chasing Orion
2007
Yossel's Journey
2022
Sugaring Time
1983
She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head!
1995
Hannah
2009
Searching for Laura Ingalls
1993
Marven of the Great North Woods
1997
The Crossing
2015
The Royal Diaries
Elizabeth I, Isabel Jewel of Castilla, Cleopatra VII, Marie Antoinette - Boxed set of 4
2025
Silk and Venom
Searching for a Dangerous Spider
2011
Poodle and Hound
2009
Night Witches
2017
Legend of the Guardians
The Owls of Ga'hoole
2004
Exile
2008
Science Fair Bunnies
2000
Faceless
2021
The Shattering
2004
A Voice of Her Own
The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet
2003
May
2011
The Last Girls of Pompeii
2007
