Kathleen Karr Books In Order

The Petticoat Party Books In Publication Order

  1. Go West, Young Women! (1996)
  2. Phoebe’s Folly (1996)
  3. Oregon, Sweet Oregon (1997)
  4. Gold-Rush Phoebe (1998)

Dear Mr. President Books In Publication Order

  1. Dwight D. Eisenhower: Letters from a Girl in the ’50s (2002)

Destiny’s Dreamers Books In Publication Order

  1. Gone West (1993)
  2. The Promised Land (1994)

Serenade Saga Books In Publication Order

  1. Summer Snow (By:Sandy Dengler) (1984)
  2. WinterSpring (By:Sandy Dengler) (1985)
  3. Chessie’s King (1986)
  4. This Rolling Land (By:Sandy Dengler) (1986)
  5. Opal Fire (By:Sandy Dengler) (1986)
  6. Jungle Gold (By:Sandy Dengler) (1987)

Skullduggery Books In Publication Order

  1. Skullduggery (2000)
  2. Bone Dry (2002)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Light of My Heart (1984)
  2. From This Day Forward (1985)
  3. It Ain’t Always Easy (1990)
  4. Oh, Those Harper Girls!, Or, Young and Dangerous (1992)
  5. Gideon and the Mummy Professor (1993)
  6. The Cave (1994)
  7. In the Kaiser’s Clutch (1995)
  8. Spy in the Sky (1997)
  9. The Great Turkey Walk (1998)
  10. The Lighthouse Mermaid (1998)
  11. Man of the Family (1999)
  12. The Boxer (2000)
  13. Playing with Fire (2001)
  14. The 7th Knot (2003)
  15. Gilbert & Sullivan Set Me Free (2003)
  16. Exiled: Memoirs of a Camel (2004)
  17. Worlds Apart (2005)
  18. Born for Adventure (2007)
  19. Fortune’s Fool (2008)

Chapter Books In Publication Order

  1. Mama Went to Jail for the Vote (With: Bonnie Christensen) (2005)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. It Happened in the White House: Extraordinary Tales From America’s Most Famous Home It Happened Inside the White House (2000)

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Kathleen Karr Books Overview

Go West, Young Women!

Meet the first feminists of the frontier: the fearless, formidable Petticoat Party wagon train! Spunky twelve year old Phoebe, her sister Amelia, the alluring Kennan twins, and the rest of the ladies are ready to hit the trail and take on hardship and hunger even lovesick Indians with aplomb. The Wild West not to mention the course of American history may never be the same!Sleeping under a wagon, eating moldy beans, and driving oxen through a dusty desert nobody ever said the Oregon Trail was going to be like this! But just when Phoebe Brown is sure she can t stand another day of her father and the other bossy male members of the wagon train, tragedy strikes. Suddenly, it is up to the women to decide: should they turn back to the life they left behind or push for Oregon on their own steam? For this spunky group of lady pioneers, the answer is clear. They re going to changeManifest Destiny into Wo manifest Destiny no matter what it takes!

Phoebe’s Folly

Phoebe’s bragging about the prowess of the women in their wagon train with firearms gets the entire group in trouble when they are challenged to a shooting contest by a band of Snake Indians.

Dwight D. Eisenhower: Letters from a Girl in the ’50s

This most recent volume in the highly regarded Dear Mr. President series features fictional letters between president Dwight D. Eisenhower and a child living during his administration. President Eisenhower upholds his presidential campaign promise to end the Korean War, but the country continues to wage another battle at home and abroad the Cold War against Communism. Annie Bullock, a 13 year old farm girl from New Jersey, tells the president how Communist paranoia has affected her life as the two discuss the threat of Soviet nuclear weapons, the McCarthy hearings, and the Rosenberg trial. Eisenhower addresses Annie’s concerns, both personal and political, and encourages her to arm herself with the best defense possible knowledge and the courage to speak her own mind. Like each book in the series, this is based on primary historical materials and offers a biography of the president and ample illustrations and timelines. The Dear Mr. President books focus on important moments in U.S. history…
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Skullduggery

In 1839, twelve year old Matthew’s job as assistant to the phrenologist Dr. Cornwall takes him up and down the Eastern Seaboard and to Europe, as they rob graves and try to find out who is following them and why.

Bone Dry

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.

Spy in the Sky

When Thaddeus Lowe and his balloon fall from the sky, Ridley Jone’s life was forever changed as he was asked to become Lowe’s assistant and help launch the Balloon Corp for President Lincoln. Simultaneous.

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 intends to herd a huge flock of bronze turkeysall the way from his home in eastern Missouri to the boomtown of Denver, where they’ll fetch a mighty price. In the year 1860, the hazards of such a trek are many how does one shepherd the birds across a river, for instance? but Simon is undaunted. Accompanied by a faithful drover, and eventually to be joined by two boon companions, he undertakes the biggest journey of his young life, in this high spirited Wild Wild West adventure by an acclaimed author of historical fiction.

The Lighthouse Mermaid

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

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 farm. And Istvan is increasingly aware of his own responsibilities in helping to realize these dreams. First steps are taken money is saved for an electrical generator, seedlings for a fruit orchard are planted. Then something terrible happens and Istvan must suddenly take over as Man of the Family, having to rely on the lessons learned from his father sooner than he ever expected. Transforming her own family history into compelling historical fiction, Kathleen Karr examines a pivotal year in her father’s childhood a year that changed his life forever.

The Boxer

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 of a house in Brooklyn, away from the tenement slums, is out of reach. Then Johnny discovers boxing. He is a natural born fighter, with street smarts, determination, and an explosive uppercut. Although boxing is illegal in 1885 New York, Johnny powers his way through every obstacle, believing he has found the means to raise himself and his family out of poverty. But as he moves closer to his biggest fight yet, Johnny must reconcile his need to help his loved ones with a sharpening desire to achieve something outside the ring, starting with his education. In bringing to life Johnny’s struggle and ultimate success, Kathleen Karr offers readers a compelling portrait of an appealing young champion.

Playing with Fire

A highly spirited mysteryBurdened by her uncanny ability to see people’s auras, Greer is happy to leave overcrowded New York City, where her mother, Madame Camille, earns a meager living as a fortune teller, to summer at a mansion on Long Island. There Madame Camille conducts’s ances with Greer’s help under the watchful, unscrupulous eye of Drake Morley, her mother’s latest male ‘friend.’ All along, Greer suspects that Drake wants to make a charlatan out of her fey mother. What’s more, she senses something horrible about the man’s past. And when she unwittingly starts conjuring up actual spirits, things quickly reveal themselves to be far more dangerous than she expected. Inspired by the 1920s craze for spiritualism, Playing with Fire is the heartfelt story of a strong girl who refuses to sacrifice her future, and learns to accept herself and her family.

The 7th Knot

A Book for the Teen Age award New York Public Library An Agatha Award Winner It’s summer vacation, 1896, and Miles and his brother must spend it with rich, irritable Uncle Eustace, who wants to purchase art for his mansion. Little do the boys know that their summer will take them on a high flying chase across Italy and Germany, searching for an answer to the mysterious disappearance of their uncle’s servant and six woodcuts by the famous Renaissance artist Albecht Durer. Unwittingly they become entangled in an international ring of conspirators, and must save the world from a dark force masquerading as a benign secret society.

Exiled: Memoirs of a Camel

THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Presents a first person narrative from a camel’s viewpoint about being sent from Egypt to serve in the United States Camel Corps, and life on the Mojave Desert before and during the Civil War

Worlds Apart

Worlds Apart is a Marshall Cavendish publication.

Born for Adventure

When young Tom Ormsby cons his way onto the great explorer Henry Morton Stanley’s ‘Relief of Emin Pasha Expedition’ in 1887, he’s looking for adventure. But he has no idea what lies ahead of him. From the exotic bazaars of Zanzibar to the mouth of the Congo River and beyond, Tom soon learns he’s signed on for more than the rescue of the mysterious Pasha. He’s on a journey through the ravishing beauty and brutality of a jungle world peopled by slavers, warring tribes, cannibals, and colonial masters – all jockeying for survival in 19th-century Africa.

As Karr follows Tom’s remarkable three-year trek, she raised some provocative questions about slavery, the right of one country to impose its cultural imperatives on another, and the arrogance that can prevent a man from achieving his ultimate goal. Startling, scary, and surprising, this true story takes the reader deep into the heart of the African past.

Fortune’s Fool

A well mapped medieval road trip. The BulletinOrphaned and left to make his own way in the world, 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 with Christa disguised as a boy, they are able to make their way as traveling entertainers, and for all the difficulties they encounter, there are as many unexpected joys and friends in unexpected places, and there is 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.

Mama Went to Jail for the Vote (With: Bonnie Christensen)

‘Women are in chains, daughter!’ Mama exclaims. ‘We are half the population of this great nation, yet haven’t any say in how it’s run.’ Susan Elizabeth’s mother is always making statements like that. Mama is a suffragist, fighting for women’s right to vote. Soon Mama begins picketing the White House and really does end up in chains. Then Susan Elizabeth begins to appreciate her mother’s valiant fight, and joins it in her own small but powerful way. This is a humorous and eye opening fictional story of the women’s suffrage movement.

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