Katherine Paterson

Living in rural Virginia, ten-year-old Jess and Leslie become special friends as they create a magical secret world that they call Terabithia. But when a tragic accident causes Leslie's death during a storm, Jess is forced to face life alone

In 1998 when the Kosovo hostilities escalate, thirteen-year-old Meli's life as an ethnic Albanian, changes forever after her brother escapes his Serbian captors and the entire family flees from one refugee camp to another until they are able to immigrate to America. Newbery Medalist Paterson delivers a touching and timely novel about a Kosovo family's journey to freedom. They are brought to America by a church group and begin a new life in a small...

When Angel's self-absorbed mother leaves her and her younger brother with their poor great-grandmother, the eleven-year-old girl worries not only about her mother and brother, her imprisoned father, the frail old woman, but also about a mysterious man who begins sharing with her the wonder of the stars.

"When thirteen-year-old Lora tells her parents that she wants to join Premier Castro's army of young literacy teachers, her mother screeches to high heaven, and her father roars like a lion. Lora has barely been outside of Havana--why would she throw away her life in a remote shack with no electricity, sleeping on a hammock? but Lora is stubborn. Didn't they teach her to help those in need? Lora's abuela takes her side, making her promise to come...

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

The story of the birth of baby Jesus who brought light into the world.

A soothsayer and his faithful donkey save the Israelites from destruction by King Balak on the orders of an angel.