Lasky, Kathryn

In the mid-1870s, young teenage scout Thad Longsworth, blood brother to the Sioux visionary Black Elk, finds his destiny linked with that of three rival teams of paleontologists searching for dinosaur bones, as the Great Plains Indians prepare to go to war against the white man.

In 1849, a fourteen-year-old Amish girl defies convention by leaving her secure home in Pennsylvania to accompany her father across the continent by wagon train.

The Ring of Sacred Volcanoes has been destroyed and Faolan is leading his small band of wolves across the ice bridge to the hoped for safety of the Distant Blue--but his old enemy Heep is pursuing him and the icy path ahead is filled with danger.

When earthquakes and erupting volcanoes strike the Beyond, Faolan and the other surviving wolves must head for the Distant Blue, where they hope to find a new home.

Faolan, exiled as a pup, must somehow find a way to claim his position as leader and unite the wolf pack in a fight against a looming danger.

Describes the life and work of the renowned nineteenth-century biologist who transformed conventional Western thought with his theory of natural evolution.

Fifteen-year-old Sam's fight to save a wilderness area for endangered eagles helps an autistic girl return to reality and reveals her strange hidden power.

Young owls Soren, Gylfie, Twilight, and Digger travel to the Ga'Hoole Tree hoping to learn to fight the evil in the owl kingdom and find themselves facing challenges they never expected, training to become part of a noble order.

Fourteen-year-old Harper, an avid reader of fantasy who must hide her books from her fundamentalist parents, comes to realize that their public promotion of censorship threatens her freedom to make her own choices.

TWELVE-YEAR-OLD MEM PRESENTS A DIARY ACCOUNT OF THE TRIP SHE AND HER FAMILY MADE ON THE MAYFLOWER IN 1620 AND THEIR FIRST YEAR IN THE NEW WORLD.