Hesse, Karen

Out of the dust by Karen Hesse( Book )
71 editions published between 1997 and 2014 in 8 languages and held by 6,195 libraries worldwide
"Dust piles up like snow across the prairie . . ." A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with her wounded hands. To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. While others flee from The Dust Bowl, Billie Jo is left to find peace in the bleak landscape of Oklahoma -- and in the surprising landscape of her own heart"--Book cover, page [4]

Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse( Book )
48 editions published between 1936 and 2015 in 6 languages and held by 3,045 libraries worldwide
Rifka's family had to leave her behind. will she ever see them again?

Brooklyn Bridge : a novel by Karen Hesse( Book )
8 editions published between 2008 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 2,819 libraries worldwide
In 1903 Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life changes for the worse when his parents, Russian immigrants, invent the teddy bear and turn their apartment into a factory, while nearby the glitter of Coney Island contrasts with the dismal lives of children dwelling under the Brooklyn Bridge

Witness by Karen Hesse( Book )
29 editions published between 2001 and 2013 in English and Japanese and held by 2,718 libraries worldwide
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 infiltrate the town

A light in the storm : the Civil War diary of Amelia Martin by Karen Hesse( Book )
17 editions published between 1999 and 2011 in English and held by 2,705 libraries worldwide
In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state

The music of dolphins by Karen Hesse( Book )
40 editions published between 1996 and 2009 in 5 languages and held by 2,562 libraries worldwide
An adolescent girl is captured by the Coast Guard, separating her from the dolphin family that raised her. Believing they rescued her, doctors name her Mila, for "miracle," and try to teach her human skills. But Mila misses her dolphin family and longs for her home in the warm sea. She questions the wisdom of the doctors and whose life is better

Spuds by Karen Hesse( Book )
2 editions published between 2008 and 2009 in English and held by 2,473 libraries worldwide
Maybelle, Jack, and Eddie want to help Ma by putting something extra on the table, so they set out in the dark to take potatoes from a nearby field, but when they arrive home and empty their potato sacks, they are surprised by what they see

Stowaway by Karen Hesse( Book )
30 editions published between 2000 and 2011 in English and French and held by 2,375 libraries worldwide
A fictionalized journal relates the experience of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook

Come on, rain! by Karen Hesse( Book )
14 editions published between 1924 and 2016 in 4 languages and held by 2,269 libraries worldwide
A young girl eagerly awaits a coming rainstorm to bring relief from the oppressive summer heat

Phoenix rising by Karen Hesse( Book )
31 editions published between 1994 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 1,981 libraries worldwide
Nyle's life with her grandmother on their Vermont sheep farm advances rhythmically through the seasons until the night of the accident at the Cookshire nuclear power plant. Without warning, Nyle's modest world fills with protective masks, evacuations, contaminated food, disruptions, and mistrust. Nyle adjusts to the changes. As long as the fallout continues blowing to the East, Nyle, Gran, and the farm can go on. But into this uncertain haven stumble Ezra Trent and his mother, "refugees" from the heart of the accident, who take temporary shelter in the back bedroom of Nyle's house. The back bedroom is the dying room: It took her mother when Nyle was six it stole away her grandfather just two years ago. Now Ezra is back there and Nyle doesn't want to open her heart to him. Too many times she's let people in, only to have them desert her. Karen Hesse's voice and vision are grounded in truth she takes on a nearly unharnessable subject, contains it, and makes it resonate with honesty. Part love story, part coming of age, this is a tour de force by a gifted writer