Beyond The Burning Time (Point Signature)
by Kathryn Lasky
from Scholastic Paperbacks
A Voice of Her Own: A Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet
by Kathryn Lasky
from Candlewick
"Lasky shows not only the facts of Wheatley's life but also the pain of being an accomplished black woman in a segregated world." — BOOKLIST
"We’ll call her Phillis."
In 1761, a young African girl was sold to the Wheatley family in Boston, who named her Phillis after the slave schooner that had carried her. Kidnapped from her home in Africa and shipped to America, she’d had everything taken from her - her family, her name, and her language.
But Phillis Wheatley was no ordinary young girl. She had a passion to learn, and the Wheatleys encouraged her, breaking with unwritten rule in New England to keep slaves illiterate. Amid the tumult of the Revolutionary War, Phillis Wheatley became a poet and ultimately had a book of verse published, establishing herself as the first African American woman poet this country had ever known. She also found what had been taken away from her and from slaves everywhere: a voice of her own.
True North
by Kathryn Lasky
from Scholastic Paperbacks
Broken Song
by Kathryn Lasky
from Puffin
The year is 1897, and gifted violinist Reuven Bloom is fifteen years old. Life for the Jews in Russia is very hard. First ReuvenÂ’s best friend is captured to serve in the TsarÂ’s army, and then his parents and older sister are murdered. ReuvenÂ’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 unknown freedom. His journey takes him first across Russia, and then ultimately to America. Readers will remember Reuven as the revolutionary who helped Sashie and her family flee from Russia in The Night Journey. In Broken Song, ReuvenÂ’s own powerful story unfolds.
Beyond the Divide
by Kathryn Lasky
from Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Memoirs of a Bookbat
by Kathryn Lasky
from Harcourt Paperbacks
Alice Rose and Sam
by Kathryn Lasky
from Hyperion Book CH
Blood Secret
by Kathryn Lasky
from HarperTeen
A story of secrets and shadows by a Newbery Honor author.
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 dramatic and rarely–portrayed period of history to life in this powerful coming–of–age tale that weaves together the Spanish Inquisition, Jewish belief, and a girl learning to understand her past.
Ages 12+
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