Most Popular Books by Kathleen Karr

Two brothers touring Europe in the nineteenth century become embroiled in a mystery involving Albrecht Durer''s knot woodcuts and a secret German society when they go in search of their uncle''s enigmatic missing valet.

In 1670, soon after arriving in the Carolinas with a group of colonists from England, fifteen-year-old Christopher West befriends a young Sewee Indian, Asha-po, and learns some hard lessons about survival, slavery, and friendship.

Tom Ormsby embarks on the adventure of a lifetime when he joins Henry Morton Stanleys expedition to rescue the Emin Pasha in the Sudan

Ali is a young camel in Egypt when he is captured by humans. Determined to "work, but never surrender," he earns a reputation as a disobedient animal and is sold to an American colonel. The year is 1856 and Ali soon finds himself in Texas as part of the U.S. Camel Corps. Crossing the landscape of 19th century America, Ali learns to balance his pride with the needs of his new companions, and slowly matures into a noble creature. Compellingly written from the camel''s point of view, this unusual book offers a fresh and unusual perspective on a little-known slice of American history.

In 1860, a somewhat simple-minded fifteen-year-old boy attempts to herd one thousand turkeys from Missouri to Denver, Colorado, in hopes of selling them at a profit.

CONRAD THE GOOD serves as court jester to a most unworthy master: Lord Otto “the Witless,” who rarely appreciates jesting and acrobatics and more often rewards his good fool with a good whipping. So one night, Conrad flees, leaving Otto’s realm in search of a more enlightened master—taking with him only his noble horse, Blackspur, and his beloved, the servant girl Christa the Fair. As they take to the road, they soon learn that along with their quest comes hardship. But for all the hardships they encounter, there are as many unexpected joys and friends in unexpected places, and there is always their love for one another. And always, their destination lies before them: somewhere, a sanctuary where they’ll have the freedom to be together and be themselves.

Johnny and Maggie Stuart, booksellers, begin their 2000-mile trek west full of faith and desire to spread the Word. Soon they must face the reality of their mission as they face rain-swollen rivers and fierce Plains Indians.

It is said that the Sahara Desert swallows the past. For Matthew Morrissey and his mentor, the eminent phrenologist Dr. Asa B. Cornwall, there''s also the danger of its swallowing their present. In their search for the skull of Alexander the Great, Matthew and Dr. ABC journey across the Great Sand Sea in a camel caravan unaware of the perils-both human and otherworldly-that await them. Overtaken by slave traders, Matthew and the doctor must call upon all of their knowledge and wit to save themselves and some unfortunate others from disaster.

Maggie, living on a farm in western Ohio and longing to know how to read, falls in love with the peddler who brings what her heart most desires: a McGuffey''s reader!

Kate, who lives in a lighthouse and often dreams that she is a mermaid, has a chance to rescue two real mermaids one story night.

From the moment Rass King rescued her from the canal, Chessie had trouble feeling she owed this brash bargeman. Motherless at four and the sole support of her father, Chessie needs help from Rass over and over again as she takes a barge down the C & O Canal in 1850.

Phoebe is bound for Oregon with her family on a wagon train 1n 1846 and all the women must learn to shoot to survive the journey. Petticoat Party.

Although conditions in Sherborn Women''s Prison are miserable, the inmates'' spirits soar when the new chaplain decides to stage a musical: Gilbert and Sullivan''s The Pirates of Penzance. The show transforms the women, and no one is changed more than sixteen-year-old Libby Dodge, who discovers she''s a natural performer. But Libby is still bound by her prison sentence and shadowed by her murky past. Gilbert and Sullivan may make prison life more bearable, but can musical theater set her free?

In West Texas in 1869, Lily and her five older sisters participate in a series of misguided schemes to save their father''s ranch.

A collection of unusual facts and entertaining anecdotes about the White House and its inhabitants.

Having learned how to box while in prison, fifteen-year-old Johnny sets out to discover if he can make a decent living as a fighter in late nineteenth-century New York City.

When a disaster claims the men of their wagon train, spunky twelve-year-old Phoebe, her mother, sister, and other women rely on their own resources to complete the journey to Oregon in 1845.

This humorous and eye-opening fictional story of the women''s suffrage movement is told from the point of view of a young girl whose suffragist mother is arrested after picketing at the White House. Full color.

Living a precarious existence on the Lower East Side of New York in 1882, eleven-year-old street urchin Jack McConell joins forces with eight-year-old runaway Mandy Kerrigan, and the two of them leave the city to seek a new life

A fascinating story about a little-known episode of the Civil War, this chapter book explores the story of Thaddeus Lowe and his plan to launch the Balloon Corps for President Lincoln. Illustrated. with games and activities.

While starring in a series of cliffhangers for Pathmark Studios during the summer of 1918, fifteen-year-old twins Fitz and Nelly Dalton uncover a German saboteur.

In this final installment in the comical series, Phoebe Brown heads for Gold Country with handsome companion Robby Robson, finding both mishaps and unexpected romance along the way. Original.

During the 1920s, life for Istvan, the eldest child of a Hungarian-American family, holds both joy and sadness.

As drought and the Depression threaten to destroy her family''s South Dakota farm, twelve-year-old Christine discovers a wondrous cave, which becomes both her own private delight and a possible salvation for the family.

An orphan boy and his mentor, a phrenologist, encounter on adventure after another as they search the world for the skulls of famous historical figures.

Missouri, été 1860. Après avoir quadruplé son CE1 à 15 ans, Simon diplômé d’office par Miss Rogers se voit refuser l’entrée en CE2 et doit gentiment déployer ses ailes. Aussi, le soir même de cette mauvaise nouvelle, lorsqu’il apprend que les dindes sur pattes valent 20 fois plus à Denver que chez lui, il décide d’acquérir 1000 têtes pour les convoyer sur 1000 kilomètres et prouver ainsi qu’il a le sens des affaires. Il recrute pour l''escorter une équipe improbable avec laquelle il va devoir traverser le désert, affronter les rocheuses et négocier avec les Indiens ! Ces derniers accepteront-ils de laisser passer cette étrange caravane qui doit atteindre Denver pour y faire fortune ? Le magnifique roman de Kathleen Karr adapté par l’autrice du brillant Anaïs Nin : sur la mer des mensonges, Léonie Bischoff, qui signe son premier titre jeunesse.

In 1855, twelve-year-old Gideon and his ne''er-do-well father work their way down the Mississippi in a second-rate vaudeville act about life in ancient Egypt accompanied by a mummy with a very special secret.

Greer spends the summer of 1924 at a Long Island seashore mansion, where she helps her psychic mother and a sinister magician conduct seances, and unexpectedly finds new direction for her life.

The twelve-year-old daughter of a chicken farmer in South Jersey corresponds with President Eisenhower about communism, the atomic bomb, and Senator McCarthy. Includes a brief biography of the president and information about the postal service in the 1950s.

Suzanne Karr Schmidt''s ''Interactive and Sculptural Printmaking in the Renaissance'' tells the story of a hands-on genre of prints: how innovative paper engineering redefined the relationship of early modern viewers to art, humanism, and science. Interactive and sculptural prints pervaded the European reading market of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Single sheets and book illustrations featured movable flaps and dials, and functioned as kits to build three-dimensional scientific instruments. These hybrid constructions - part text, part image, and part sculpture - engaged readers; so did the polemical, satirical, and, occasionally, erotic content. By manipulating dials and flaps, or building and using the instruments, viewers learned to think through images as well as words, interacting visually with desires, social critique, and knowledge itself.

As her family and other members of the Petticoat Party settle into their new lives in the Oregon territory, thirteen-year-old Phoebe Brown yearns for more of the freedoms she had experienced on the difficult cross-country journey.

This collection of extraordinary tales presents some fun, little-known facts about the White House, including the fact that Thomas Jefferson stored prehistoric bones from the Lewis and Clark expedition in the East Room. Children can also read about the rumors of hauntings of some of the bedrooms.

Printemps 1869, dans un ranch au nord du Texas. Le climat est rude, la misère, noire. Pour soulager leurs parents, les six filles, âgées de treize à dix-huit ans, se résolvent à sombrer dans le crime. Mais elles manquent de pratique, de conviction et de chance. Pourtant, une idée de génie va leur permettre de marier l''élégance, la respectabilité et leur expérience de hors-la-loi.