Kathryn Lasky

Wolves of the Beyond: #3 Watch Wolf
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780545093156
RRP: $12.99

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Daughters of the Sea 02: May
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780545243315
RRP: $14.99

May feels her life drying up. The sea calls to her, but her parents forbid her from swimming. She longs for books, but her mother finds her passion for learning strange. She yearns for independence, but a persistent suitor, Rudd, wants to tame her spirited ways. Yet after her fifteenth birthday, the urge to break free becomes overpowering and May makes a life-changing discovery. She does not bel...

Daughters of the Sea 03: Lucy
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780439783125
RRP: $24.99

Lucy's family is excited to spend the summer in Bar Harbor, Maine. Her minister father is pleased to preside over such a prestigious congregation, and his social-climbing wife is ecstatic at the chance to find a rich husband for her daughter. Yet Lucy wants nothing to do with the Bar Harbor social scene; she's simply excited to spend the summer by the sea, watching the waves from her favo...

Wolves of the Beyond 04: Frost Wolf
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780545093163
RRP: $24.99

Faolan has always been an outsider. Exiled as a pup, then shunned by his fellow wolves for his unusual connection to the bears, Faolan has struggled to earn a place in the pack. But a terrible danger is looming on the horizon, and Faolan is the only one who knows how to fight it. Will he be able to claim his rightful place as leader? Unless Faolan can inspire the pack to stand together, it could ...

Wolves of the Beyond 02: Shadow Wolf
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780545093132
RRP: $12.99

From bestselling author Kathryn Lasky comes the second book in WOLVES OF THE BEYOND, a stunning new spinoff from her legendary owl series, Guardians of Ga'hoole. The wolf pup Faolan was born with a twisted paw, a slight defect that caused his wolf clan to abandon him in the forest to die. But Faolan, with the help of the grizzly bear who raised him as her own, survived. Now he's made it ...

Wolves of the Beyond 03: Watch Wolf
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780545093149
RRP: $19.99

Born with a twisted paw, Faolan was abandoned as wolf pup and left to die. But not only did he survive and make it back to the wolf clan, he also proved himself to be one of the most worthy wolves of all. But just as Faolan is about to take his place as one of the revered Wolves of the Watch, a fellow watch wolf goes missing. Faolan is sent to track her down and makes a horrifying discovery she ha...

Daughters of the Sea 02: May
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780439783118
RRP: $26.99

May feels her life drying up. The sea calls to her, but her parents forbid her from swimming. She longs for books, but her mother fi nds her passion for learning strange. She yearns for independence, but a persistent suitor, Rudd, wants to tame her spirited ways. Yet after her fi fteenth birthday, the urge to break free becomes overpowering and May makes a lifechanging discovery. She does not belo...

Daughters of The Sea: 01 Hannah
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780545238038
RRP: $14.99

Hannah is not like the other girls in the turn-of-the-century Boston orphanage where she grew up. Instead of seasickness, Hannah gets land sickness. She leaves a ring of salt in the tub when she bathes, and sometimes she sees a faint tracing of scales on her feet. It's freakish, horrifying . . . and deeply thrilling. Hannah feels a change coming. But she is not the only one who senses it. A yo...

The Deadlies: Felix Takes the Stage
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780545117302
RRP: $9.99

The Deadlies are like any other family with a loving mother and bright, rambunctious children. Except they're spiders. Really, really poisonous ones. But Edith and her children are kind and cultured they would never hurt anyone. The Deadlies had been happily living in a symphony hall until Edith's son, Felix, had a . . . misunderstanding with the maestro. Now they're on the hunt for a...

Wolves of the Beyond 01: Lone Wolf
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780545093118
RRP: $12.99

A wolf mother has given birth, but the warm bundle snuffl ing next to her brings only anguish. The pup, otherwise healthy, has a twisted paw, and the mother knows what the harsh code of the pack demands. Her pup will be taken from her and abandoned on a desolate hill. The pack cannot have weakness the wolf mother knows that her pup is condemned to die. But alone in the wilderness, the pup, Faolan,...

Ashes
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780142411124
RRP: $12.95

Berlin, 1932. Thirteen-year-old Gabriella Schramm's world is slowly, but steadily, crumbling as Adolf Hitler rises to power. The only thing that soothes Gabriella is her favorite pastime reading. But then her country's tensions rise, the streets fill with soldiers, Gaby's sister's boyfriend raises his arm in a heil Hitler salute, and a family friend Albert Einstein flees the countr...

Wolves of The Beyond 02: Shadow Wolf
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780545093125
RRP: $24.99

The wolf pup Faolan was born with a twisted paw, a slight defect that caused his wolf clan to abandon him in the forest to die. But Faolan, with the help of the grizzly bear who raised him as her own, survived. Now he's made it back to his clan and as a gnaw wolf, the lowest-ranking pack member. And the hardships are just beginning. Another gnaw wolf, Heep, is jealous of Faolan and sets him u...

Guardians of Ga'Hoole Collection
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780545281959
RRP: $29.99

Guardians of Ga'Hoole is a classic hero mythology about the fight between good and evil. This series is filled with adventure, suspense and heart. When Soren, a young owlet, mysteriously falls from his nest one evening, he's plucked up and taken to the sinister St Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls. Once there, he must use his wits and bravery to escape his captors. The first three books i...

Guardians of Gahoole #1: Capture Film Tie-In Edition
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780545253062
RRP: $14.99

After Soren, a young owlet, is pushed from his family's nest by his older brother, he's plucked from the forest floor by agents from a mysterious school, the St. Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls. When Soren arrives at St. Aggie's, he suspects there is more to the school than meets the eye. He and his new friend, the clever and scrappy Gylfie, find out that St. Aggie's is actually...

Guardians of Gahoole: Lost Tales of the Great Tree
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780545102445
RRP: $12.99

Guided by the Knower, Otulissa has studied long in the libraries of the Others; she has probed the ancient lore of the strange and powerful dire wolves of the Beyond. And at the Great Ga'Hoole tree itself she has uncovered secret histories of Guardians she thought she knew well! Attention, Dear Reader! Great mysteries will be revealed to the attuned mind in these last Lost Tales of the Great T...

My Royal Story: Elizabeth
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781407116211
RRP: $17.99

As the daughter of the fallen Anne Boleyn, young Princess Elizabeth lives a complicated and dangerous life. She fears her father Henry VIII's famous temper, and she knows that Princess Mary is not only her sister but also her rival. Court intrigue swirls around the young princess, and she is forced at an early age to distinguish friend from foe. As Henry VIII lies dying and her enemies close i...

My Royal Story: Mary Queen of Scots
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781407116228
RRP: $17.99

At just 11 years old, the young princess Mary is sent from her native Scotland to live in the court of her future father-in-law, King Henry II of France. She spends her time attending balls, hunting and hawking, learning Latin and fractions and music, and playing with her future husband, Francis. But one day she knows the games will end and she will have to embark on the serious business of being ...

My Royal Story: Marie Antoinette
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781407116181
RRP: $17.99

Young Marie Antoinette has a recurring nightmare, in which the broken head of her porcelain doll is her own. Marie Antoinette doesn't know her fate, but she knows her destiny to one day be queen of France. But all the preparation in the world cannot equip her for the adventure she is about to embark upon. Ages: 8-12...

Wolves of the Beyond 01: Lone wolf
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780545093101
RRP: $24.99

A wolf mother has given birth, but the warm bundle snuffling next to her brings only anguish. The pup, otherwise healthy, has a twisted leg, and the mother knows what the harsh code of the pack demands. Her pup will be taken from her and abandoned on a desolate hill. The pack cannot have weakness-the wolf mother knows that her pup is condemned to die. But alone in the wilderness, the pup, Faolan, ...

Daughters of the Sea: Hannah
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780439783101
RRP: $27.99

The Daughters of the Sea quartet tells the story of three mermaid sisters who are separated at birth by a storm and go on to lead three very different lives. Book 1 is about Hannah, who spent her early days in an orphanage and is now a scullery maid in the house of rich and powerful family. She is irresistibly drawn to the sea and through a series of accidents and encounters discovers her true ide...

Guardians of Ga'Hoole 15: War of the Ember
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780439888097
RRP: $12.99

The strange, maniacal blue owl known as the Striga has been ousted from the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. Nyra, leader of the vicious Pure Ones, is either dead or lying low in some distant land, leaving the tree finally at peace. As if fed by an invisible spring, learning and the lively arts flourish at the great tree and spread throughout the owl kingdoms. But unbeknownst to the Guardians, in a long-e...

Guardians Of Ga'hoole 14: Exile
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780439888080
RRP: $12.99

The Striga, former dragon owl from the Middle Kingdom beyond the Unnamed Sea, has come to stay at the great tree. He has earned the trust of all by saving Bell, Soren's owlet, from Nyra, and he grows daily closer to the young king Coryn, with whom he seems to share a strange bond. The Striga senses the power of the ember hidden in Bubo's forge and draws it closer. As his power waxes, he ac...

Guardians Of Gahoole: A Guide Book To The Great Tree
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780439931885
RRP: $12.99

Finally, for all free folk of air, land and water seeking knowledge of the Great Ga'Hoole Tree; its ways, its days, its heroes known and unknown . . . a guide! Studious by nature, fortunate to have been present at the most glorious moments in the tree's recent history, and above all honoured to count as friends its most ardent champions, I, Otulissa, have decided to write a compendium, a c...

Guardians of Ga'Hoole 13: The River Of Wind
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780439888073
RRP: $12.99

The adventure continues! In a land no owl knew existed, Soren, Coryn, and the Guardians find danger, knowledge, and new allies. Coryn and the Band have returned to the Great Ga'Hoole Tree and restored order. With the Ember safely hidden away, the tree shakes off its gaudy golden glow and recovers its natural majesty. Meanwhile, deep in the Palace of Mists, Bess finds an ancient map fragment t...

Guardians Of Ga'hoole 12: The Golden Tree
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780439888066
RRP: $12.99

After the time of the legends, the tale of the Guardians returns to the present in which Soren, the hero of Books 1-6, must train a new king. Old friends, new adventures! Coryn, Soren, and the Band preside over a new Golden Age of the Great Tree under the subtle influence of the Ember. All seems well, but beneath the prosperity of peace Coryn is tortured by the suspicion that his evil mother, Nyr...

Guardians Of Ga'Hoole 10: The Coming Of Hoole
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780439795692
RRP: $12.99

Grank 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 realises ...

Guardians of Ga'Hoole 09: The First Collier
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780439795685
RRP: $12.99

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 ...

Guardians of Ga'Hoole 08: The Outcast
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780439739511
RRP: $12.99

Nyroc has exiled himself from the Pure Ones. He flies alone, feared and despised by those who know him as Kludd's son, hunted by those whose despotism he has rejected, and haunted by ghostly creatures conjured by Nyra to lure him back to the Pure Ones. He yearns for a place he only half believes in the great tree and an uncle the near-mythic Soren who might be a true father to him. Yet...

Guardians Of Ga'Hoole 07: The Hatchling
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780439739504
RRP: $12.99

Kludd is dead. Nyra, his mate, is determined that her hatchling, Nyroc, will fulfill his father's destiny: the vicious oppression of all the owl kingdoms. But Nyroc is a poor student of evil. A light grows in his heart, fed by scraps of forbidden legend and strange news of a place where goodness and nobility reign. He must summon all his courage to defy his destiny - and the embodiment of evil...

Portraits 1: Dancing Through Fire
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780439710091
RRP: $17.99

Welcome to nineteenth-century Paris, and the world of Degas's dancers. Thirteen-year-old Sylvie is one of the pupils at the Paris Opera Ballet, where tutus must always be starched and pointe shoes fresh. Sylvie dreams of being a prima ballerina, but her height is a problem: she is too little. When the Franco-Prussian war begins in 1870, Paris is soon under siege and Sylvie is thrown into tur...

Guardians Of Ga'Hoole 06: The Burning
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780439405621
RRP: $12.99

Soren and his band are sent to the mysterious Northern Kingdoms to gather allies and learn the art of war in preparation for the coming cataclysmic battle against the sinister Pure Ones. Meanwhile, in the Southern Kingdoms, St Aggies has fallen to the Pure Ones and they are using its resources to plan a final invasion of the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. With the future of all Owldom in the balance, t...

Guardians Of Ga'Hoole 05: The Shattering
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780439405614
RRP: $12.99

In the midst of war, Eglantine unwittingly becomes a spy for Kludd, leader of the Pure Ones (a group of evil owls). She is brainwashed by an owl sent by the Pure Ones to infiltrate the Great Ga'hoole Tree. Her odd behaviour eventually attracts attention, and Soren and his friends vow to find out what's wrong with Eglantine. They ultimately learn what happened and help her reverse the effe...

Guardians Of Ga'Hoole 04: The Siege
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780439405607
RRP: $12.99

Book Four Of The Guardians Of Ga'Hoole series....

Guardians Of Ga'Hoole 03: The Rescue
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780439405591
RRP: $14.99

Ever since Soren was kidnapped and taken to the St Aegolius School for Orphaned Owls he has longed to see his sister, Eglantine, again. Now Eglantine is back in Soren's life, but she has been through an ordeal too terrible for words. And Ezylryb, Soren's mentor, has disappeared. Deep within Soren's gizzard, something more powerful than knowledge tells him there's a connection be...

Guardians Of Ga'Hoole 02: The Journey
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780439405584
RRP: $14.99

Soren, Gylfie, Twilight, and Digger travel to the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, a mythical place where an order of owls rises each night to perform noble deeds. Soren and his group are seeking help to fight the evil they discovered in the owl world (in 'The Capture'). After a harrowing journey, they arrive at the Great Ga'Hoole Tree and learn they will need to stay to receive training from...

Guardians Of Ga'Hoole 01: The Capture
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780439405577
RRP: $12.99

When Soren, a barn owl, is pushed from his family's nest by his older brother, he is rescued from certain death on the forest floor by agents from a mysterious school for orphaned owls, St Aggie's. When Soren arrives at St Aggie's, he suspects there is more to the school than meets the eye. He and his new friend, the clever and scrappy Gylfie, find out that St Aggie's is actually ...

Spiders on the Case
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780545117319
RRP: $6.95

Buster, a walnut orb weaving spider, enlists the help of Jo Beth, one of a family of poisonous but friendly brown recluse spiders, to help stop humans who are stealing from the rare books room of the Boston Public Library, where the spiders live....

One Beetle Too Many
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780763658212
RRP: $9.95

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Spiders on the Case
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780545116824
RRP: $20.95

Buster, a walnut orb weaving spider, enlists the help of Jo Beth, one of a family of poisonous but friendly brown recluse spiders, to help stop humans who are stealing from the rare books room of the Boston Public Library, where the spiders live....

A Journey to the New World
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780545238014
RRP: $16.95

Arriving in the New World after a grueling Atlantic crossing, Mayflower passenger Mem cares for her dying fellow pilgrims while befriending Native American Squanto, who assists her family through a first year of tragedy and thanksgiving....

Ashes
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670011575
RRP: $21.95

In 1932 Berlin, Gaby Schramm witnesses the beginning of Hitler's rise to power, as soldiers become ubiquitous and the family's friend, Albert Einstein, leaves the country while Gaby's parents bury his books and papers in their small yard....

True North
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780545088022
RRP: $10.95

Because of the strong influence which her grandfather, an abolitionist, has in her life, fourteen-year-old Lucy assists a fugitive slave girl in her escape....

John Muir
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780763638849
RRP: $11.95

Depicts the life of John Muir--writer, scholar, inventor, shepherd, farmer, explorer, and naturalist--who devoted his life to the land, influenced the first national park in America--Yosemite--and founded the Sierra Club in 1892....

The Last Girls of Pompeii
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670061969
RRP: $20.95

When Julia, the daughter of a wealthy shipbuilder, discovers that her parents are planning to put her in service at the Temple of Dania and sell her slave, Mitka, to an abusive man, the two face equal fears about their future--until a catastrophic event changes everything in both their lives in the ancient city of Pompeii in A.D. 79....

Unicorns? Get Real!
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060587642
RRP: $20.95

When rumors of wild unicorns come to Camp Princess, there's a frenzy of excitement as the royal maidens prepare for the Unicorn Round-Up, but Princess Gundersnap has more important things to worry about. Simultaneous....

Vision of Beauty
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780763618346
RRP: $9.95

Having been born to former slaves, Sarah faced great social and financial difficulties in life, yet determined not to allow obstacles to deter her from her goals, Sarah went on to become a successful businesswoman as owner and operator of her own manufacturing company. Reprint....

Interrupted Journey
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780763628833
RRP: $9.95

Tells the true tale of the young boy who, having found a nearly frozen sea turtle on the beach near his home in Cape Cod, takes the steps necessary to save the endangered creature's life and then journeys to the Gulf of Mexico where it is set free to live the rest of its days in its natural habitat. Reprint. Jr Lib Guild....

Sugaring Time
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780689710810
RRP: $11.95

Text and photographs show how a family taps the sap from maple trees and processes it into maple syrup...

A Voice in the Wind
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780152058753
RRP: $7.95

The two sets of Starbuck twins, in New Mexico with their father, meet a six-hundred-year-old Native American ghost and use their telepathic powers to capture the looters of ancient Anasazi artifacts....

A Voice Of Her Own
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780763628789
RRP: $10.95

Presents a biography of the African girl brought to New England as a slave in 1761 who became famous on both sides of the Atlantic as the first Black poet in America. Reprint....

Before I Was Your Mother
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780152058425
RRP: $7.95

When her mother shows her photos and memorabilia from her childhood days, young Katie realizes that her mother had a life before she was born and that the two of them are not so different after all since many of her mother's early dreams and experiences are very similar to her own. Children's BOMC. Reprint....

Double Trouble Squared
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780152058784
RRP: $7.95

In London with their family, telepathic twelve-year-old twins Liberty and July receive strange emanations from an early residence of Arthur Conan Doyle and discover a literary ghost....

Marven of the Great North Woods
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780152168261
RRP: $9.95

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....

Pirate Bob
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781570916472
RRP: $10.95

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....

Poodle and Hound
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781580893237
RRP: $8.95

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Shadows in the Water
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780152058746
RRP: $7.95

The two sets of Starbuck twins use their telepathic powers and the aid of some endangered dolphins to help their father catch a gang dumping toxic waste in the Florida Keys....

The Most Beautiful Roof in the World
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780152008970
RRP: $11.95

Describes the work of Meg Lowman in the rainforest canopy, an area unexplored until the last ten years and home to previously unknown species of plants and animals...

The Night Journey
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670059638
RRP: $20.95

Thirteen-year-old Rachel ignores her parents' wishes and persuades her great-grandmother Nana Sashie to relate the story of her escape from czarist Russia. An ALA Notable Book. Simultaneous....

The Rescue
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781410419033
RRP: $43.95

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A Journey to The New World
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781430103691

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Blood Secret
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780060000639

What will she find in her family's hidden history? Jerry hasn't spoken a word in the six years since her mother disappeared. Sometimes she wants to talk, but she just . . . can't. When Jerry Moon is sent to live with her great-great-aunt, she discovers a trunk in the basement that reveals dark mysteries about her family's ancestry. Newbery Honor author Kathryn Lasky brings a dr...

Blood Secret
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060000660

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 abo...

Born to Rule
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780060587635

Grab your tiara and your toothbrush! We're going to Camp Princess with the best-selling author of 'The Guardians of Ga'Hoole!' Camp Princess is just like any other summer camp -- except the arts and crafts use real family jewels, the swimming requires a bathing tiara, and camping out calls for silk tents! It sounds like the recipe for a royally good time. But something's not ...

Broken Song
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780142407417

The year is 1897, and gifted violinist Reuven Bloom is fifteen years old. Life for the Jews in Russia is very hard. First Reuven's best friend is captured to serve in the Tsar's army, and then his parents and older sister are murdered. Reuven's dreams of music must be set aside. Now he has only one goal: escape. With his baby sister strapped to his back, Reuven sets off toward an unkno...

LA Huida/the Night Journey
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9788434815346

Rache ignores her parents' wishes and persuades her great-grandmother to relate the story of her escape from czarist Russia...

The Capture
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780786298655

Pushed from his nest, an owlet is captured by agents of the mysterious and ill-intentioned St. Aegolius Academy, where orphaned owls are brainwashed and enlisted in an evil attempt to take over the owl world....

The Journey
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781410402936

Soren, Gylfie, Twilight, and Digger make a harrowing journey to the Great Ga'Hoole Tree--a mythical place where an order of owls rises each night to perform noble deeds--seeking help to fight the evil afoot in the owl world....

The Night Journey
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780142403228

Thirteen-year-old Rachel dreads the afternoons she has to spend with her great-grandmother, Nana Sashie until Sashie begins to reminisce about her childhood in Russia and Rachel finds herself caught up in a whirlwind of memories. As the events and characters of Sashie's past come to life, Rachel discovers a distant country and time, a time when Jews were forced to serve in the Czar's arm...

The Regal Diaries: Kazunomiya: Prisoner Of Heaven - Japan, 1858
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780439164856

Kazunomiya, along with her royal family, is thought to be a divinity descended from the goddess of the sun, and she lives an extremely sheltered life. However, when a Japanese general signs a treaty with the white-faced men from America, uncertainty and turmoil erupt in the kingdom. But the external threats do not compare to the tangled intrigue, romance and politics that dominate the imperial p...

The Royal Diaries: Jahanara, Princess Of Princesses, India 1627
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780439223508

India, 1627. Experience the sumptuous wealth and the unforgettable drama within the Moghal Dynasty of seventeenth-century India through Newbery Honor-author Kathryn Lasky's diary of Princess Jahanara....

The Royal Diaries: Mary, Queen Of Scots: Queen Without A Country: Scotland 1553
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780439194044

Mary is only nine months old when she is crowned Queen of Scotland. Because of political conflicts, she is separated from her mother and her country at the age of five. In order to forge an alliance with France, the young Queen is betrothed to Francis, the son of King Henry II of France and his wife, the vicious and jealous Queen Catherine de Medici. Mary is sent to France to live in their care u...