Kathleen N Karr

The Boxer (Sunburst Book)

Hard-hitting historical fictionEver since his father ran off two years before, fifteen-year-old Johnny Woods has struggled to help support his ma and five siblings, sacrificing his own schooling in the process. Still, there's been hardly enough money each month to make the rent, and Johnny's dream o...

The Great Turkey Walk

Yeeeeeee-haw! Git along, little . . . turkeys?Big, brawny Simon Green, who's just completed third grade (for the fourth time), may not be book smart, but he's nobody's fool. When it's time to be done with school and make his way in the world, Simon hatches a plan that could earn him a bundle. He int...

The Promised Land (Destiny's Dreamers Book 2)

Destiny's Dreamers: Book TwoNow in the last miles on the Oregon Trail, will Johnny and Maggie Stuart be robbed of their cherished dream?For Johnny and Maggie and their young family, the long journey West has been fraught with danger. They have been beset by hunger, blistering heat, and bone-rattling...

Gideon and the Mummy Professor

In 1855, while performing a vaudeville act with his unpredictable father, the ""Mummy Professor,"" the mummy in the act reveals to twelve-year-old Gideon the location of a treasure. By the author of It Ain't Always Easy.

Fortune's Fool

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 ...

Man of the Family

A moving father-son story.At ten, Istvan Csere is learning from his father all about running the family's chicken farm in South Jersey. The father, a flamboyant, proud character who fled Hungary with Istvan's mother on the brink of the First World War, has great plans for his family and their little...

Exiled: Memoirs of a Camel

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 19...

The Cave

Twelve-year-old Christine discovers a wonderful secret on her father's South Dakota farm--an unexplored cave with a secret of its own--something that might save her family from the drought and Depression that threaten to destroy the farm.

Go West, Young Women

Go West, Young Women

Phoebe's Folly

Go West, Young Women!

Gold-Rush Phoebe

Oregon, Sweet Oregon

Light of My Heart

Playing with Fire