Karen Hesse

Billie Jo has a great deal to forgive: Her father for causing the accident that killed her mother; her mother for leaving when Billie Jo needed her most; and herself for being the cause of her own sorrow. Daddy's too wrung out to help her, and there's no one else to care....

In 1767, 11-year-old Nicholas Young stowed away on Captain James Cook's "Endeavour".....

When her sister Hannie finds a stuffed unicorn, Mags’s wishes start to come true....

Rifka knows nothing about America when she flees from Russia with her family in 1919....

Radley's parents had warned her that all hell would break loose if the American People's Party took power. And now, with the president assassinated and the government cracking down on citizens, the news is filled with images of vigilante groups, frenzied looting, and police raids. It seems as if...

On that day in 1903, fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life changed irrevocably when his parents—Russian immigrants—created the first teddy bear. No longer did the Michtom's gather family and friends around the kitchen table to talk. No longer was Joseph at leisure to play stickball with...

If Nyle lets herself care for Ezra, she knows he’ll end up leaving her, too....

A girl raised by dolphins must choose between two worlds in this critically acclaimed novel about what it means to be a human being....

Leanora Sutter, Esther Hirsh, Merlin Van Tornhout and Johnny Reeves are among the unforgettable cast inhabiting a small Vermont town in 1924....

Vera, an Aleut girl who lives on a larger island so she can attend school, returns home for the summer of 1942 to visit her mother and friends. But when the Japanese launch an air attack on the Aleutian Islands, the US government "evacuates" most of the Aleut population....

Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse recreates the body and soul-renewing experience of a summer downpour after a sweltering city heat wave....