Book SeriesLiterary Work of Kathryn Lasky

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Beyond the Divide

In 1849, a fourteen-year-old Amish girl joins a wagon train west with her father after he has been shunned by their community.

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Mumbo Jumbo

In the third Calista Jacobs mystery, Jacobs and her son Charley join archeologist Archie Baldwin in Arizona. There, they encounter a sinister New Age cult, headed by Pahata Ra, who claims to be the reincarnation of a 65,000-year-old woman from the Russian steppes. When Calista recognizes Pahata as her old college roommate, she suspects foul play.

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Pond Year

Two young girls enjoy playing and exploring in the nearby pond where they discover tadpoles, insects, wildflowers in the summer, and a place to ice skate in the winter.

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Sugaring Time

Lasky and and photographer Chistopher Knight follow the Lacey family of central Vermont as they engage in that still-flourishing American tradition of gathering maple sap for boiling into delectable maple syrup.

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Cloud Eyes

Cloud Eyes, a young dreamer, is his tribe’s only hope for bringing honey back to the lodges of his people. So begins this Native American boy’s quest.

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I Have an Aunt on Marlborough Street

Phoebe describes her many visits during the year to her Aunt Phoebe, who lives in an old part of Boston where the sidewalks are made of brick and the houses touch shoulders.

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Mortal Words

Children's book illustrator Calista Jacobs and her teenage son Charley are back in a new mystery featuring fundamentalist extremists, archeology and computer-enhanced genetic research. Calista and two of her colleagues are verbally attacked--called "immoral" influences--at a children's literature conference in Boston. Then one of them is murdered. Calista must solve the case before she becomes the next victim.

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Dinosaur Dig

An engrossing photo-essay about the family vacation of a lifetime—a dinosaur dig in Montana.

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Traces of Life: The Origins of Humankind

Lasky and archaeological illustrator Whitney Powell present the history of the research and theories concerning the earliest human beings.

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