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Karen Hesse

Karen Hesse

Newbery winner Karen Hesse re-creates Cook's momentous voyage through the eyes of this remarkable boy, creating a fictional journal filled with fierce hurricanes, warring natives, and disease, as Nick discovers new lands, incredible creatures, and lifelong friends.

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Aleutian Sparrow
Aleutian Sparrow By: Karen Hesse
Illustrated by: Evon Zerbetz
This edition: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publication date: May 31, 2005
Ages: 10 - 14
In June 1942, seven months after attacking Pearl Harbor, the Japanese navy invaded Alaska's Aleutian Islands. For nine thousand years the Aleut people had lived and thrived on these treeless, windswept lands. Within days of...
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Stowaway By: Karen Hesse
This edition: Hardcover, 328 pages
Publication date: November 1, 2000
Ages: 10 - 14
It is known that in the summer of 1768, Captain James Cook sailed from England on H.M.S Endeavour, beginning a three-year voyage around the world on a secret mission to discover an unknown continent at the bottom of the globe....
Other Formats: Trade Paperback