Kathryn Lasky

Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2010: Another sweltering summer in Indiana, and eleven-year-old Georgie can only dream of cooling off in the community pool. It's 1952, and many kids like her are stuck at home to avoid contracting polio. Georgie's curiosity and fears are piqued when her family moves next door to …

True North is a 1996 historical novel for young adults by Kathryn Lasky, and published by Scholastic Corporation Set in 1850s America, it is a story about the Underground Railroad. Afrika, a slave girl from Virginia, and Lucy, an independent girl constricted by Boston society, take different paths in life, Lucy …