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Kathryn Lasky

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How you know Kathryn:

Kathryn Lasky is the award-winning author of numerous books for young readers, including the best-selling "Guardians of Ga’Hoole" series that has been developed into an animated feature film by Warner Brothers Pictures and is slated for release in September 2010. Rights to twelve foreign editions of the "Guardians of Ga’Hoole" series have been sold to date. Lasky is also the author of "Daughters of the Sea," a series for young adults. Her books have received a Newbery Honor, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and a Washington Post-Children’s Book Guild Award. She lives with her husband in Cambridge, Massachusetts.