Kathryn Lasky

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Biography

Kathryn Lasky is the American author of many critically acclaimed books, including several Dear America books, several Royal Diaries books, 1984 Newbery Honor winning Sugaring Time, The Night Journey, and the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series.She was born June 24, 1944, and grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana, and is married to Christopher Knight, with whom she lives in Massachusetts.Book 15, The War of the Ember, is currently the last book in the Ga'Hoole series. The Rise of a Legend is the 16th book but is a prequel to the series. Lasky has also written Guide Book To The Great Tree and Lost Tales Of Ga'Hoole which are companion books.

  • Aliases
  • Kathryn Lasky Knight·E. L. Swann
  • Primary profession
  • Writer·producer
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Female
  • Birth date
  • 24 June 1944
  • Place of birth
  • Indianapolis
  • Education
  • University of Michigan College of Literature· Science· and the Arts·Wheelock College
  • Knows language
  • English language

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Books

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Cycling, cycling forever bear, wolf, caribou. When had it all started, where will it end?We are all part of one, from such simple beginnings and yet all so different. Yet one. One and again.

This morning I was ten years old. Tonight I am older than the stars.

I will go to the Ring of Sacred Volcanoes, but I shall go not as a member of the MacHeath clan — no, I shall go as a free runner. I reject you. I deny you, I refuse and repudiate you as my clan.

Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmetic,can happen more often than possible. In other words, probable is more possible than possible. - Bubo,I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it.

Never in a million years would I want to live at Versailles with Marie Antoinette or anybody else. I hate to tell you this but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream.

I hate to tell you this, but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream. It gave me the mental equivalent of one of those toothaches you get when you bite into something too sweet. .

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