Lasky, Kathryn

In 1952, when Georgie is eleven years old, her family moves to a new Indiana neighborhood where her teenaged neighbor has polio and is in an iron lung.

An illustrated biography of young Samuel Clemens, who grew up to be the writer known as Mark Twain.

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.

A young girl's fascination with Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" books leads her family on a trip to see some of the places featured in them.

A continuation of "The Emperor's New Clothes" in which a simple farmer finds the emperor's old clothes on his way home from the market and decides to put them on.

A fictionalized account of the activities of Harriet Hemenway and Minna Hall, founders of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, a late nineteenth-century Audubon Society that would endure and have impact on the bird-protection movement.

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

Follows an East Coast family as it travels to Montana to join a paleontology team in digging for dinosaur bones.

Otulissa sets out to record the history, life, and spirit of the Great Tree, highlighting key moments in the tree's history and explaining why it is so important to the Guardians.

Abandoned by his pack, a baby wolf with a mysterious mark on his deformed paw survives and embarks on a journey that will change the world of the wolves of the Beyond.