Kathryn Lasky

Kathryn Lasky (Indianapolis, 24 giugno 1944) è una scrittrice statunitense, di libri per ragazzi.

Biografia

La Lasky è una nota scrittrice di libri per ragazzi con diverse serie come The Royal Diaries, Dear America, Guardians of Ga'Hoole e diverse altre.

Vive a Cambridge vicino a Boston e il suo ultimo libro, Guardians of Ga'Hoole Book 15: The War of the Ember è stato pubblicato nel novembre 2008. Nel 2010 ha pubblicato The Lone Wolf, una nuova puntata della serie Wolves of the Beyond.

Opere

Camp Princess

• Born to Rule
• Unicorns? Get Real!

The Royal Diaries

• Elisabetta I Rosa dei Tudor (Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor, England 1544)
• Mary, Queen of Scots: Queen Without a Country, France 1553
• Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France 1769
• Jahanara: Princess of Princesses, India 1627
• Kazunomiya: Prisoner of Heaven, Japan 1858

Dear America

• Verso il nuovo mondo (Journey to the New World)
• Dreams in the Golden Country
• Christmas After All
• A Time for Courage

My Name Is America

• The Journal of Augustus Pelletier

My America

• Hope In My Heart, Sofia's Ellis Island Diary (Book One)
• Home at Last: Sofia's Immigrant Diary (Book Two)
• An American Spring: Sofia's Immigrant Diary (Book Three)

Portraits

• Dancing Through Fire

Daughters of the Sea

• Book #1: Hannah (September 2009)
• Book #2: Girl in the Shadows (2010[?])
• Book #3
• Book #4

Starbuck Family Adventures

• Il fantasma di S. Holmes (Double Trouble Squared)
• Ombre nell'acqua (Shadows in the Water)
• Una voce nel vento (A Voice in the Wind)

I guardiani di Ga'Hoole (Guardians of Ga'Hoole)

1. I guardiani di Ga'Hoole - La cattura (The Capture, 2003)
2. I guardiani di Ga'Hoole - Il grande viaggio (The Journey, 2003)
3. I guardiani di Ga'Hoole - Duello mortale (The Rescue, 2004)
4. I guardiani di Ga'Hoole - L'assedio (The Siege, 2004)
5. I guardiani di Ga'Hoole - La spia (The Shattering, 2004)
6. I guardiani di Ga'Hoole - L'incendio (The Burning, 2004)
7. (EN) Guardians of Ga'Hoole Book 7: The Hatchling (2005)
8. (EN) Guardians of Ga'Hoole Book 8: The Outcast (2005)
9. (EN) Guardians of Ga'Hoole Book 9: The First Collier (2006)
10. (EN) Guardians of Ga'Hoole Book 10: The Coming of Hoole (2006)
11. (EN) Guardians of Ga'Hoole Book 11: To Be a King(2006)
12. (EN) Guardians of Ga'Hoole Book 12: The Golden Tree (2007)
13. (EN) Guardians of Ga'Hoole Book 13: The River of Wind (2007)
14. (EN) Guardians of Ga'Hoole Book 14: Exile (2008)
15. (EN) Guardians of Ga'Hoole Book 15: The War of the Ember (2008)
16. (EN) Guardians of Ga'Hoole Book 16: The Rise of a Legend (2013)

Legends of Hoole: The Story of the Ga'hoole tree

1. (EN) The First Collier (2006)
2. (EN) The Coming of Hoole (2006)
3. (EN) To Be a King (2006)

Wolves of the Beyond

• Wolves of the Beyond: Lone Wolf
• Wolves of the Beyond: Shadow Wolf
• Wolves of the Beyond: Watch Wolf
• Wolves of the Beyond: Frost Wolf
• Wolves of the Beyond: Spirit Wolf

Stand alone titles

• The Last Girls of Pompeii
• Blood Secret
• Broken Song
• Chimera (Star Split)
• Testimone oculare (Alice Rose and Sam)
• True North
• Beyond the Burning Time
• Memoirs of a Bookbat
• The Bone Wars
• Pageant
• Beyond the Divide
• The Night Journey

Altro

• 3038 Staat der Klone
• John Muir: America's First Environmentalist
• Interrupted Journey: Saving Endangered Sea Turtles
• Shadows in the Dawn: The Lemurs of Madagascar
• The Most Beautiful Roof in the World
• Sugaring Time
• Days of the Dead
• Searching for Laura Ingalls
• Monarchs
• Surtsey: The Newest Place on Earth
• Dinosaur Dig
• Traces of Life
• A Baby for Max

Libri illustrati

• Lunch Bunnies
• Show and Tell Bunnies
• Science Fair Bunnies
• Tumble Bunnies
• Lucille's Snowsuit
• Lucille Camps In
• Starring Lucille
• Pirate Bob
• Humphrey, Albert, and the Flying Machine
• Before I was Your Mother
• The Man Who Made Time Travel
• A Voice of Her Own: The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet
• Love That Baby
• Mommy's Hands
• Porkenstein
• Born in the Breezes: The Voyages Of Joshua Slocum
• Vision of Beauty
• First Painter
• The Emperor's Old Clothes
• Sophie and Rose
• Marven of the Great North Woods
• A Brilliant Streak
• Hercules: The Man, The Myth, The Hero
• The Librarian who Measured the Earth
• She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head!
• The Gates of the Wind
• Pond Year
• Cloud Eyes
• I Have an Aunt on Marlborough Street
• Sea Swan
• My Island Grandma

Per adulti

• Il giardino che fioriva di notte (Night Gardening) (scritto sotto lo pseudonimo di E.L. Swann)
• Dark Swan
• Mumbo Jumbo
• Mortal Words
• Trace Elements
• The Widow of Oz

Collegamenti esterni

• (EN) Sito ufficiale, su kathrynlasky.com.
• (EN) Opere di Kathryn Lasky, su Open Library, Internet Archive.
• (EN) Bibliografia di Kathryn Lasky, su Internet Speculative Fiction Database, Al von Ruff.
• (EN) Kathryn Lasky, su Goodreads.
• Bibliografia italiana di Kathryn Lasky, su Catalogo Vegetti della letteratura fantastica, Fantascienza.com.
• (EN) Kathryn Lasky, su Discogs, Zink Media.
• (EN) Kathryn Lasky, su MusicBrainz, MetaBrainz Foundation.
• (EN) Kathryn Lasky, su IMDb, IMDb.com.