Lasky, Kathryn

A fictional journal in which eleven-year-old Minnie Swift tells how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how the arrival of an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932.

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

Describes the need for sailors to be able to determine their position at sea and the efforts of John Harrison, an eighteenth century man who spent his life refining instruments to enable them to do this.

Soren leads the Chaw of Chaws to rescue his sister, and this begins the next battle between the owls of Ga'Hoole and the evil Pure Ones.

Soren and the rest of the band of owls in the great tree must fly to the mysterious Northern Kingdoms in order to prepare for the deadly attack against them, but St. Aggie has fallen to the Pure Ones and without Soren and his allies, their enemies will prevail.