Katherine Paterson

Katherine Paterson is back - A new novel from the author of Bridge to Terabithia - based on a completely true historical event. A historical novel about a young Cuban teenager who volunteers for Fidel Castro's national literacy campaign that taught those throughout the impoverished countryside to read.

Feeling deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to find her identity.

Reimagines Francis of Assisi's 1224 prayer of praise in celebration of God's gifts throughout the universe.

"In this memoir, we learn the origins of Paterson's characters and storylines and share in her unexpected literary acclaim. We see the intimate moments of family, creativity, and faith that come together for a life well lived"--

A magic man of ancient Dartmoor creates an enchanted charm, the Flint Heart, that has the power to change the wearer's tenderness and compassion into cruelty and evil. When it is found thousands of years later by a kindly farmer, Billy Jago, who is transformed into a cruel and merciless person, two of his children, Charles and Unity, and their dog venture into the world of enchantment where the magical power of the Flint Heart can be resolved and...

While living on a Vermont poor farm during 1855 and 1856, Jip learns his identity and that of his mother and comes to understand how he arrived at this place.

When Marvin refuses to go back to his new school because he is the only one in his class who cannot read, his father decides to help him learn by reading with him.

After the death of her self-absorbed parents, a clever princess shows the peasants in her country how to make better lives for themselves.

Josh, who has just moved to Vermont with his mother, stepfather, and new baby brother, must deal with the bullying of a neighbor boy and discovers that his dog, whom he hears talking with other dogs, is also facing a bully of his own.

Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.