Kathleen Karr, Author Hyperion Books $5.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1698-9
An orphaned 12-year-old survives on the streets of New York in 1839 as an assistant to Dr. ABC; his job is to impress wealthy clients as well as rob graves of famous heads. PW called this work ""part history lesson and all entertainment."" Ages...
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Kathleen Karr, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (192p) ISBN 978-0-374-23453-9
Set in the Roaring Twenties, when spiritualism was all the rage, this novel starring a fortune teller's daughter has some spine-tingling moments, but readers may be disappointed by the slow-moving plot and hazy explanations of unusual events. The...
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Kathleen Karr, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (178p) ISBN 978-0-374-34764-2
Karr (The Great Turkey Walk) captures the hopes and trials of a first-generation Hungarian family struggling to build a farm in southern New Jersey after WWI. She characterizes the five siblings and their parents as a tightly knit group yet clearly...
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Kathleen Karr, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $17 (144p) ISBN 978-0-374-30921-3
Karr (The Great Turkey Walk) offers an enticing mix of sports action, family drama and period detail in this saga of an amateur boxer growing up in 19th-century Manhattan. Fifteen-year-old Johnny's skill with his fists is as impressive as his high...
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Kathleen Karr, Author Hyperion Books for Children $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-45599-6
Six sisters in 1860s Texas try to save the family ranch through assorted harebrained schemes; ``a rollicking tale,'' said PW. Ages 10-14. (Sept.)
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Kathleen Karr, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (165p) ISBN 978-0-374-31230-5
This slow-paced, laborious novel set during the Depression lacks the verve of Karr's (Gideon and the Mummy Professor) previous work. Overwhelmed by the drought and dust storms that have jeopardized her family's South Dakota farm and left her father...
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Kathleen Karr, Author Hyperion Books for Children $16 (137p) ISBN 978-0-374-32563-3
Set among Mississippi river towns in 1855 and laden with period atmosphere, Karr's latest introduces 12-year-old hero who grudgingly looks after his father, the ``Mummy Professor'' who lectures on Egypt and the pharoahs. But while Gideon and his...
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Kathleen Karr, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (181p) ISBN 978-0-374-35609-5
The Harper Ranch is in trouble, and it's up to the Harper girls to save it from foreclosure. The five oldest sisters, frustrated at being stuck on a failing 1860s Texas ranch, yearn for marriage or the stage; the youngest, narrator Lily, 13, enjoys...
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Kathleen Karr, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $14.95 (228p) ISBN 978-0-374-33645-5
Orphaned Jack, 11, and his stalwart companion, runaway Mandy, 8, roam the streets of New York City in 1882 in search of a home. First they camp in a vacant house. The Children's Aid Society takes them in, but they wind up as unwelcome boarders with...
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Kathleen Karr, Author . Hyperion $15.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1916-4
Karr (Skullduggery; The Great Turkey Walk) bases this vivid historical novel on an actual performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance
in a women's prison in 1914. The novel starts off strong, propelled by the comic voice of 16-
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Kathleen Karr, Author Hyperion Books $15.99 (230p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0776-5
The sequel to Skullduggery, which PW called ""part 19th-century history lesson and all entertainment,"" Bone Dry by Kathleen Karr chronicles the further adventures of Matthew Morrissey, young apprentice to phrenologist Dr. ABC (aka Asa B....
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Kathleen Karr, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $17 (208p) ISBN 978-0-374-32773-6
""I've always been fond of birds, poultry in particular."" From that first sentence, readers will gobble up Karr's (Oh, Those Harper Girls!) hilarious novel of a boy who resolves to walk 1000 turkeys from the Show-Me state to Denver, Colorado. Simon,
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Kathleen Karr, Author HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-06-027151-0
The Petticoat Party series rolls out creakily with this lumbering tale of a wagon train that leaves Independence, Mo., in the winter of 1845, bound for the Oregon Country. In one of the 12 wagons rides the Brown family, spurred on by the promise of...
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Kathleen Karr, Author . Cavendish $16.99 (193p) ISBN 978-0-7614-5348-2
Karr (The Great Turkey Walk
) weaves in actual historical facts as her novel takes readers into "Deepest, Darkest Africa," alongside the bombastic writer and explorer Henry Morton Stanley (who famously uttered the phrase "Dr. Livingstone,
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Kathleen Karr, Author . FSG/Sunburst $6.95 (169p) ISBN 978-0-374-40886-2
"Karr offers an enticing mix of sports action, family drama and period detail in this saga of a 15-year-old amateur boxer growing up in 19th-century Manhattan," PW
said. Ages 12-up. (Sept.)
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Kathleen Karr, Author . Cavendish $15.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7614-5164-8
Karr (The Great Turkey Walk)
once again mines a sliver of American history in this stylized novel, narrated by a camel from Egypt who is bought by a colonel in the U.S. Army and transported, along with other camels, to Texas to join the short-lived
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Kathleen Karr, Author . Hyperion $5.99 (220p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1594-4
The sequel to Skullduggery
, which PW
called "part 19th-century history lesson and all entertainment," this story chronicles the further adventures of a young apprentice to a phrenologist, as they travel to 1840s Africa in search of the...
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Kathleen Karr, Author, Troy Howell, Illustrator Hyperion Books $15.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0506-8
Karr's (The Great Turkey Walk; Man of the Family) comical, fast-paced novel reveals the seedy practices of 19th-century scientists. After his family falls victim to cholera, orphaned 12-year-old Matthew Morrissey survives on the streets of New York...
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