Previous SFF Author: B.V. Larson
(1944- )
Kathryn Lasky also writes adventures, historical fiction, and non-fiction for children. She writes mysteries for adults under the name Kathryn Lasky Knight. Learn more at her website.
In anticipation of the upcoming movie based on Kathryn Lasky’s Guardians of Ga’Hoole series, Scholastic has re-released the first book in the series, The Capture. Being an owl fan, I of course had to give it a try! Lasky is clearly following in Richard Adams’ footsteps here, what with her invented owl words and the mixture of animal behavior and very human social commentary. The Capture is less intense than Watership Down in terms of both reading level and violence level,
Kelly Lasiter´s rating: 3 | Kathryn Lasky | Children | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
The other orphan girls at the Boston Home for Little Wanderers fantasize that they are secretly the long-lost daughters of wealthy families, or even of royalty. Hannah harbors no such dreams. What she doesn’t know, however, is that her heritage is the strangest of all. When she is packed off to live in dry landlocked Kansas and falls deathly ill, she begins to realize that she’s not like other girls.
Desperate, Hannah returns to Boston and finds a job as a scullery maid with the wealthy Hawley family.
Kelly Lasiter´s rating: 4 | Kathryn Lasky | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | no comments |
May is the second in Kathryn Lasky’s Daughters of the Sea series, which tells the story of three orphaned sisters, separated as infants, who discover they are mermaids. In the previous book we met Hannah, who found her true nature while working as a maid to a wealthy family. Here we meet the second sister, May, who was adopted by a lighthouse keeper and his manipulative wife. Her parents have kept something from her, and when she is fifteen she works up the courage to learn what it is.
Kelly Lasiter´s rating: 3 | Kathryn Lasky | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Previous SFF Author: B.V. Larson
COMMENT Book #3 of this trilogy is very much a heist story, and I quite enjoyed it!
Pirate stories and heist stories... Do we ever get enough of them?
Very interesting, Ulrich! Thanks for clueing me in!
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