Kathryn Lasky Books in Order
Kathryn Lasky is a renowned American author celebrated for her critically acclaimed books, including the popular Dear America and Royal Diaries series, as well as the 1984 Newbery Honor-winning novel Sugaring Time and The Night Journey. Her most notable achievement is the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series, a sprawling epic that spans multiple books, with the 15th installment, The War of the Ember, marking the series' conclusion. However, The Rise of a Legend, the 16th book, serves as a prequel, offering a new perspective on the beloved characters and world. Lasky has also penned companion books such as Guide Book To The Great Tree and Lost Tales Of Ga'Hoole, solidifying her reputation as a masterful storyteller and world-builder.
Bibliography verified: January 2026
Book Series by Kathryn Lasky
- #1AmazonHercules(1997)
- #1AmazonA Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620(1996)
- #2AmazonWinter Of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary Of Abigail Jane Stewart (By: Kristiana Gregory)(1996)
- #3AmazonA Picture Of Freedom (By: Patricia McKissack)(1997)
- #4AmazonEarly Sunday Morning: the Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii, 1941 (By: Barry Denenberg)(1998)
- #5AmazonWest to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi (By: Jim Murphy)(1998)
- #6AmazonA Line in the Sand: The Alamo Diary of Lucinda Lawrence (By: Sherry Garland)(1998)
- #7AmazonStationery Pack (By: Patricia McKissack)(1998)
- #8AmazonThe Great Railroad Race: The Diary of Libby West, Utah Territory 1868 (By: Kristiana Gregory)(1999)
- #9AmazonMy Heart is on the Ground (By: Ann Rinaldi)(1999)
- #10AmazonThe Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo Girl (By: Ann Turner)(1999)
- #11AmazonA Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin (By: Karen Hesse)(1999)
- #12AmazonColor Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North (By: Patricia McKissack)(2000)
- #13AmazonMy Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York 1941 (By: Mary Pope Osborne)(2000)
- #14AmazonChristmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana 1932(2001)
- #15AmazonSeeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild, California Territory 1849 (By: Kristiana Gregory)(2001)
- #16AmazonWhen Christmas Comes Again: The World War I Diary of Simone Spencer (By: Beth Seidel Levine)(2002)
- #17AmazonMy Secret War : The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck(2002)
- #18AmazonA Time for Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen, Washington, D.C. 1917(2002)
- #19AmazonWhere Have All the Flowers Gone? (By: Ellen Emerson White)(2002)
- #20AmazonSurvival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards, Dalhart, Texas 1935 (By: Katelan Janke)(2002)
- #21AmazonLove Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson (By: Ann Turner)(2003)
- #22AmazonLand of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, An English Girl in Minnesota (By: Marion Dane Bauer)(2003)
- #23AmazonAll the Stars in the Sky (By: Megan McDonald)(2003)
- #24AmazonLook to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl, New York Colony 1763 (By: Patricia McKissack)(2004)
- #25AmazonHear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker, New York City 1909 (By: Deborah Hopkinson)(2004)
- #26AmazonThe Fences Between Us: The Diary of Piper Davis, Seattle, Washington, 1941 (By: Kirby Larson)(2010)
- #27AmazonLike the Willow Tree (By: Lois Lowry)(2011)
- #28AmazonCannons at Dawn (By: Kristiana Gregory)(2011)
- #29AmazonBehind the Masks: The Diary of Angeline Reddy, Bodie, California, 1880 (By: Susan Patron)(2012)
- #1AmazonThe Capture(2003)
- #2AmazonThe Journey(2003)
- #3AmazonThe Rescue(2003)
- #4AmazonThe Siege(2004)
- #5AmazonThe Shattering(2004)
- #6AmazonThe First Collier(2005)
- #7AmazonThe Hatchling(2005)
- #8AmazonTo Be a King(2006)
- #9AmazonThe River of Wind(2007)
- #10AmazonThe Golden Tree(2007)
- #11AmazonExile(2008)
- #12AmazonThe War of the Ember(2008)
- #13AmazonThe Burning(2012)
- #14AmazonThe Outcast(2012)
- #15AmazonThe Coming of Hoole(2013)
- #16AmazonThe Rise of a Legend(2013)
- #1AmazonThe Journal of James Edmond Pease (By: Jim Murphy)(1998)
- #2AmazonThe Journal of William Thomas Emerson (By: Barry Denenberg)(1998)
- #3AmazonThe Journal of Joshua Loper (By: Walter Dean Myers)(1999)
- #4AmazonThe Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins (By: Walter Dean Myers)(1999)
- #5AmazonThe Journal of Ben Uchida (By: Barry Denenberg)(1999)
- #6AmazonThe Journal of Sean Sullivan (By: William Durbin)(1999)
- #7AmazonThe Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce (By: Ann Rinaldi)(2000)
- #8AmazonThe Journal of Otto Peltonen (By: William Durbin)(2000)
- #9AmazonThe Journal of Augustus Pelletier(2000)
- #10AmazonThe Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds (By: Rodman Philbrick)(2001)
- #11AmazonThe Journal of Biddy Owens (By: Walter Dean Myers)(2001)
- #12AmazonOn This Long Journey: The Journal of Jesse Smoke (By: Joseph Bruchac)(2001)
- #13AmazonThe Journal of C.J. Jackson (By: William Durbin)(2002)
- #14AmazonThe Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty (By: Ellen Emerson White)(2002)
- #15AmazonThe Journal of Jedediah Barstow (By: Ellen Levine)(2002)
- #16AmazonThe Journal of Finn Reardon (By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti)(2003)
- #17AmazonThe Journal of Rufus Rowe (By: Sid Hite)(2003)
- #18AmazonThe Journal of Brian Doyle (By: Jim Murphy)(2004)
- #19AmazonThe Journal of Wong Ming-Chung / Staking a Claim (By: Laurence Yep)(2013)
- #1AmazonThe Titanic (By: Ellen Emerson White)(1992)
- #2AmazonMy Story The Trenches (By: Jim Eldridge)(1999)
- #3AmazonMy Story (By: Vince Cross)(2001)
- #4AmazonThe Hunger (By: Carol Drinkwater)(2001)
- #5AmazonTwentieth Century Girl (By: Carol Drinkwater)(2001)
- #6AmazonThe Crystal Palace (By: Frances Mary Hendry)(2001)
- #7AmazonThe Great Plague (By: Pamela Oldfield)(2001)
- #8AmazonThe '45 Rising (By: Frances Mary Hendry)(2001)
- #9AmazonBattle of Britain (By: Chris Priestley)(2002)
- #10AmazonSuffragette (By: Carol Drinkwater)(2003)
- #11AmazonVictorian Workhouse (By: Pamela Oldfield)(2004)
- #12AmazonRoad to War (By: Valerie Wilding)(2008)
- #13AmazonSophie's Secret War (By: Jill Atkins)(2009)
- #14AmazonCadogan Square (By: Carol Drinkwater)(2010)
- #15AmazonFactory Girl (By: Pamela Oldfield)(2011)
- #16AmazonNowhere to Run (By: Carol Drinkwater)(2012)
- #17AmazonWar Spy (By: Jim Eldridge)(2013)
- #18AmazonVictoria (By: Anna Kirwan)(2014)
- #19AmazonCodename Céline (By: Jim Eldridge)(2015)
- #20AmazonComing Home (By: Jim Eldridge)(2018)
- #21AmazonNoor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan (By: Sufiya Ahmed)(2020)
- #22AmazonMayflower(2020)
- #23AmazonPrincess Sophia Duleep Singh (By: Sufiya Ahmed)(2022)
- #24AmazonMary Prince (By: E.L. Norry)(2022)
- #1AmazonTugboats Never Sleep(1977)
- #2AmazonTall Ships(1978)
- #3AmazonDollmaker(1981)
- #4AmazonSugaring Time(1983)
- #5AmazonAtlantic Circle (As: Kathryn Lasky Knight)(1984)
- #6AmazonSurtsey: The New Place on Earth(1990)
- #7AmazonTraces of Life: The Origins of Humankind / Early Man(1990)
- #8AmazonDinosaur Dig(1990)
- #9AmazonThink Like an Eagle: At Work with a Wildlife Photographer(1992)
- #10AmazonSearching for Laura Ingalls(1993)
- #11AmazonMonarchs(1993)
- #12AmazonThe Most Beautiful Roof in the World: Exploring the Rainforest Canopy(1997)
- #13AmazonShadows in the Dawn: The Lemurs of Madagascar(1998)
- #14AmazonA Brilliant Streak: The Making of Mark Twain(1998)
- #15AmazonVision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker(2000)
- #16AmazonFirst Painter(2000)
- #17AmazonInterrupted Journey: Saving Endangered Sea Turtles(2001)
- #18AmazonBorn in the Breezes: The Seafaring Life of Joshua Slocum(2001)
- #19AmazonA Voice of Her Own: The Story of Phyllis Wheatley, Slave Poet(2003)
- #20AmazonJohn Muir: America's First Environmentalist(2006)
- #21AmazonSilk and Venom: Searching for a Dangerous Spider(2011)
- #22AmazonShe Caught the Light(2021)
- #1AmazonIn Defense of Liberty (By: Russell Freedman)(2003)
- #2AmazonThe Man Who Made Time Travel(2003)
- #3AmazonYork's Adventures with Lewis and Clark (By: Rhoda Blumberg)(2003)
- #4AmazonSecrets Of The Sphinx (By: James Cross Giblin)(2004)
- #5AmazonSpiders (By: Nic Bishop)(2007)
- #6AmazonThe Secret World of Walter Anderson (By: Hester Bass)(2009)
- #7AmazonMammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age (By: Cheryl Bardoe)(2010)
- #8AmazonIf Stones Could Speak (By: Marc Aronson)(2010)
- #9AmazonBallet for Martha (By: Jan Greenberg)(2010)
- #10AmazonA Splash of Red (By: Jen Bryant)(2013)
- #11AmazonThe Family Romanov (By: Candace Fleming)(2014)
- #12AmazonThe Right Word (By: Jen Bryant)(2014)
- #1AmazonI Have Four Names for My Grandfather(1976)
- #2AmazonMy Island Grandma(1979)
- #3AmazonA Baby for Max(1984)
- #4AmazonSea Swan(1988)
- #5AmazonFourth of July Bear(1991)
- #6AmazonThe Tantrum(1993)
- #7AmazonDays of the Dead(1994)
- #8AmazonThe Librarian Who Measured the Earth(1994)
- #9AmazonCloud Eyes(1994)
- #10AmazonPond Year(1995)
- #11AmazonShe's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head!(1995)
- #12AmazonLunch Bunnies(1996)
- #13AmazonGrace the Pirate(1997)
- #14AmazonMarven of the Great North Woods(1997)
- #15AmazonHercules (With: Adele Faber)(1997)
- #16AmazonShow and Tell Bunnies(1998)
- #17AmazonSophie and Rose(1998)
- #18AmazonThe Emperor's Old Clothes(1999)
- #19AmazonScience Fair Bunnies(2000)
- #20AmazonScience Prize Bunnies(2001)
- #21AmazonMommy's Hands(2002)
- #22AmazonPorkenstein(2002)
- #23AmazonBefore I Was Your Mother(2003)
- #24AmazonThe Man Who Made Time Travel(2003)
- #25AmazonLove That Baby!(2003)
- #26AmazonHumphrey, Albert, and the Flying Machine(2004)
- #27AmazonTumble Bunnies(2005)
- #28AmazonPirate Bob(2006)
- #29AmazonOne Beetle Too Many(2006)
- #30AmazonTwo Bad Pilgrims(2009)
- #31AmazonNewton's Rainbow(2017)
- #32AmazonYossel's Journey(2022)
- #1AmazonThe Weaver's Gift(1980)
- #2AmazonThe Night Journey(1981)
- #3AmazonJem's Island(1982)
- #4AmazonBeyond the Divide(1983)
- #5AmazonPrank(1984)
- #6AmazonPuppeteer(1985)
- #7AmazonHome Free(1985)
- #8AmazonPageant(1986)
- #9AmazonThe Bone Wars(1988)
- #10AmazonThe Widow of Oz (As: Kathryn Lasky Knight)(1989)
- #11AmazonI Have an Aunt on Marlborough Street (With: Susan Guevara)(1992)
- #12AmazonBeyond the Burning Time(1994)
- #13AmazonMemoirs of a Bookbat(1994)
- #14AmazonThe Solo(1994)
- #15AmazonThe Gates of the Wind(1995)
- #16AmazonTrue North(1996)
- #17AmazonAlice Rose and Sam(1998)
- #18AmazonNight Gardening (As: E.L. Swann)(1999)
- #19AmazonStar Split(1999)
- #20AmazonRobin Hood: The Boy Who Became a Legend(1999)
- #21AmazonHawksmaid: The Untold Story of Robin Hood and Maid Marian(2000)
- #22AmazonBlood Secret(2004)
- #23AmazonBroken Song(2005)
- #24AmazonGeorgia Rises(2005)
- #25AmazonThe Last Girls of Pompeii(2007)
- #26AmazonChasing Orion(2007)
- #27AmazonPoodle and Hound(2009)
- #28AmazonAshes(2010)
- #29AmazonThe Extra(2013)
- #30AmazonMore Than Magic(2016)
- #31AmazonNight Witches(2017)
- #32AmazonFaceless(2021)
- #33AmazonGlass: A Cinderella Tale(2024)
- #1AmazonMary, Queen of Scots(1994)
- #2AmazonCleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile (By: Kristiana Gregory)(1999)
- #3AmazonElizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor (With: Kristiana Gregory)(1999)
- #4AmazonIsabel: Jewel of Castilla (By: Carolyn Meyer)(2000)
- #5AmazonMarie Antoinette, Princess of Versailles(2000)
- #6AmazonAnastasia: The Last Grand Duchess (By: Carolyn Meyer)(2000)
- #7AmazonWeetamoo: Heart of the Pocassets (By: Patricia Clark Smith)(2001)
- #8AmazonLady of Ch'iao Kuo: Red Bird of the South (By: Laurence Yep)(2001)
- #9AmazonVictoria: May Blossom of Britannia (By: Anna Kirwan)(2001)
- #10AmazonSŏndŏk: Princess of the Moon and Stars (By: Sheri Holman)(2002)
- #11AmazonEleanor, Crown Jewel of Aquitaine (By: Kristiana Gregory)(2002)
- #12AmazonKaiulani (By: Ellen Emerson White)(2002)
- #13AmazonJahanara, Princess Of Princesses(2002)
- #14AmazonElisabeth: The Princess Bride (By: Barry Denenberg)(2003)
- #15AmazonKristina: The Girl King (By: Carolyn Meyer)(2003)
- #16AmazonNzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba (By: Patricia McKissack)(2003)
- #17AmazonLady of Palenque: Flower of Bacal (By: Anna Kirwan)(2004)
- #18AmazonKazunomiya: Prisoner of Heaven(2004)
- #19AmazonAnacaona: Golden Flower (By: Edwidge Danticat)(2005)
- #20AmazonCatherine, The Great Journey (By: Kristiana Gregory)(2006)
About Kathryn Lasky
Kathryn Lasky is a renowned American author celebrated for her critically acclaimed books, including the popular Dear America and Royal Diaries series, as well as the 1984 Newbery Honor-winning novel Sugaring Time and The Night Journey. Her most notable achievement is the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series, a sprawling epic that spans multiple books, with the 15th installment, The War of the Ember, marking the series' conclusion. However, The Rise of a Legend, the 16th book, serves as a prequel, offering a new perspective on the beloved characters and world. Lasky has also penned companion books such as Guide Book To The Great Tree and Lost Tales Of Ga'Hoole, solidifying her reputation as a masterful storyteller and world-builder.
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