Karen Hesse Books

Night Job
Night Job

By Karen Hesse Illustrated By G. Brian Karas

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With lyrical narration and elegant, evocative artwork, Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse and illustrator G. Brian Karas share the nighttime experience of a father and child.When the sun sets, Dad’...

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Time of Angels
Time of Angels

By Karen Hesse

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Letters from Rifka
Letters from Rifka

By Karen Hesse

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Phoenix Rising
Phoenix Rising

By Karen Hesse

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Stowaway
Stowaway

By Karen Hesse

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A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook.

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Out of the dust
Out of the dust

By Karen Hesse

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In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.

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Witness
Witness

By Karen Hesse

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A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infilt...

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A time of angels
A time of angels

By Karen Hesse

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Sick with influenza during the 1918 epidemic and separated from her two sisters, a young Jewish girl living in Boston relies on the help of an old German man, and her visions of angels, to get bett...

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