Karen S. Hesse ist eine hoch gelobte Dichterin und Autorin, die besonders für ihre Arbeit in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur sowie in der historischen Fiktion bekannt ist. Sie wurde 1952 in Baltimore, Maryland, geboren und hatte eine herausfordernde Kindheit, die sie in Reihenhäusern mit minimaler Privatsphäre verbrachte. Diese frühen Erfahrungen haben ihre Schreibarbeit stark beeinflusst, die oft Themen wie Härte, Widerstandsfähigkeit und den menschlichen Geist erforscht.
Das Werk von Hesse wurde für seine literarische Qualität weitreichend anerkannt. Ihr Roman "Out of the Dust" aus dem Jahr 1997 gewann die prestigeträchtige Newbery Medal und den Scott O'Dell Award für Historische Fiktion. Dieser bemerkenswerte Erfolg ist ein Beweis für die Fähigkeit von Hesse, fesselnde Erzählungen zu erschaffen, die Leser aller Altersgruppen ansprechen. Der Roman, der in der Staubsturm-Ära der 1930er Jahre spielt, erzählt die Geschichte des Überlebenskampfes und der Hoffnungssuche eines jungen Mädchens angesichts von Widrigkeiten.
Im Jahr 2002 wurde Hesse mit einem MacArthur Fellowship ausgezeichnet, einer prestigeträchtigen Auszeichnung für Individuen, die für ihre herausragende Kreativität in ihrer Arbeit bekannt sind. Diese Anerkennung festigte weiter den Ruf von Hesse als führende Stimme in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Ihre weiteren bemerkenswerten Werke umfassen "Letters from Rifka", "The Music of Dolphins" und "Bridge to Terabithia", das sie zusammen mit Katherine Paterson schrieb. Die Fähigkeit von Hesse, historischen Kontext mit fesselnder Erzählkunst zu verweben, macht sie zu einer beliebten Autorin bei Lesern und Kritikern gleichermaßen.
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Wish on a Unicorn
1991
2
Letters from Rifka
1992
3
Phoenix Rising
1994
4
A Time of Angels
1995
5
The Music of Dolphins
1996
6
Out of the Dust
1997
7
Just Juice (With: Robert Andrew Parker)
1998
8
Just Juice
1998
9
The Stowaway
2000
10
Witness
2000
11
Young Nick's Head
2001
12
Aleutian Sparrow
2003
13
Brooklyn Bridge
2008
14
Safekeeping
2012
Chapter Books
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Titel
Jahr
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Lavender
1993
2
Sable
1994
Bilderbücher
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Jahr
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1
Poppy's Chair
1993
2
Lester's Dog
1993
3
Come On, Rain!
1999
4
The Cats In Krasinski Square
2004
5
Spuds
2008
6
My Thumb
2016
7
Night Job
2018
8
Nights with Dad
2018
9
Granny and Bean
2022
Sachbücher
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Jahr
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A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin
1999
2
The Young Hans Christian Andersen
2005
Dear America Books
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When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia, 1864 (By: Barry Denenberg)
1996
2
When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia, 1864
1996
3
A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620 (By: Kathryn Lasky)
1996
4
A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620
1996
5
Winter Of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary Of Abigail Jane Stewart
1996
6
Winter Of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary Of Abigail Jane Stewart ( By: Kristiana Gregory)
1996
7
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865 (By: Joyce Hansen)
1997
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I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865
1997
9
A Picture Of Freedom
1997
10
A Picture Of Freedom (By: Patricia McKissack)
1997
11
Early Sunday Morning: the Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii, 1941
1998
12
Early Sunday Morning: the Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii, 1941 (By: Barry Denenberg)
1998
13
Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl, New York City, 1903 (By: Kathryn Lasky)
1998
14
Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl, New York City, 1903
1998
15
West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi (By: Jim Murphy)
1998
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West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi
1998
17
Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763 ( By: Mary Pope Osborne)
1998
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Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763
1998
19
A Line in the Sand: The Alamo Diary of Lucinda Lawrence (By: Sherry Garland)
1998
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A Line in the Sand: The Alamo Diary of Lucinda Lawrence
1998
21
Stationery Pack (By: Patricia McKissack)
1998
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Stationery Pack
1998
23
Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic 1912 (By: Ellen Emerson White)
1998
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Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic 1912
1998
25
The Great Railroad Race
1999
26
The Great Railroad Race: The Diary of Libby West, Utah Territory 1868 (By: Kristiana Gregory)
1999
27
My Heart is on the Ground (By: Ann Rinaldi)
1999
28
My Heart is on the Ground
1999
29
The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo Girl
1999
30
The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo Girl (By: Ann Turner)
1999
31
A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin
1999
32
Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North (By: Patricia McKissack)
2000
33
Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North
2000
34
A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska, Lattimer, Pennsylvania, 1896
2000
35
A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska, Lattimer, Pennsylvania, 1896 (By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti)
2000
36
My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York 1941 (By: Mary Pope Osborne)
2000
37
My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York 1941
2000
38
One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss, Vienna, Austria to New York 1938 (By: Barry Denenberg)
2000
39
One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss, Vienna, Austria to New York 1938
2000
40
Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana 1932
2001
41
Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana 1932 ( By: Kathryn Lasky)
2001
42
Valley of the Moon: The Diary of María Rosalía de Milagros, Sonoma Valley, Alta Valley, California, 1846,
2001
43
Valley of the Moon: The Diary of María Rosalía de Milagros, Sonoma Valley, Alta Valley, California, 1846, (By: Sherry Garland)
2001
44
Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild, California Territory 1849 (By: Kristiana Gregory)
2001
45
My Face to the Wind: The Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher, Broken Bow, Nebraska 1881
2001
46
My Face to the Wind: The Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher, Broken Bow, Nebraska 1881 (By: Jim Murphy)
2001
47
When Christmas Comes Again: The World War I Diary of Simone Spencer
2002
48
My Secret War : The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck
2002
49
When Christmas Comes Again: The World War I Diary of Simone Spencer (By: Beth Seidel Levine)
2002
50
A Time for Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen, Washington, D.C. 1917
2002
51
My Secret War : The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck (By: Kathryn Lasky)
2002
52
A Time for Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen, Washington, D.C. 1917 (By: Kathryn Lasky)
2002
53
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
2002
54
Where Have All the Flowers Gone? (By: Ellen Emerson White)
2002
55
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Diary of Bess Brennan, The Perkins School for the Blind, 1932
2002
56
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Diary of Bess Brennan, The Perkins School for the Blind, 1932 (By: Barry Denenberg)
2002
57
Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards, Dalhart, Texas 1935
2002
58
So Far From Home: the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847
2003
59
Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards, Dalhart, Texas 1935 (By: Katelan Janke)
2002
60
So Far From Home: the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847 (By: Barry Denenberg)
2003
61
Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson
2003
62
Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson (By: Ann Turner)
2003
63
Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, An English Girl in Minnesota
2003
64
All the Stars in the Sky
2003
65
Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, An English Girl in Minnesota (By: Marion Dane Bauer)
2003
66
All the Stars in the Sky ( By: Megan McDonald)
2003
67
Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild, California Territory 1849
2003
68
Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl, New York Colony 1763
2004
69
Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl, New York Colony 1763 (By: Patricia McKissack)
2004
70
Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker, New York City 1909 (By: Deborah Hopkinson)
2004
71
Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker, New York City 1909
2004
72
I Walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembley, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1691
2004
73
I Walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembley, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1691 (By: Lisa Rowe Fraustino)
2004
74
The Fences Between Us: The Diary of Piper Davis, Seattle, Washington, 1941 (By: Kirby Larson)
2010
75
The Fences Between Us: The Diary of Piper Davis, Seattle, Washington, 1941
2010
76
Like the Willow Tree ( By: Lois Lowry)
2011
77
Like the Willow Tree
2011
78
Cannons at Dawn ( By: Kristiana Gregory)
2011
79
Cannons at Dawn
2011
80
With the Might of Angels: The Diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson, Hadley, Virginia, 1954 (By: Andrea Davis Pinkney)
2011
81
With the Might of Angels: The Diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson, Hadley, Virginia, 1954
2011
82
Behind the Masks: The Diary of Angeline Reddy, Bodie, California, 1880
2012
83
Behind the Masks: The Diary of Angeline Reddy, Bodie, California, 1880 (By: Susan Patron)
2012
84
Down the Rabbit Hole, Chicago, Illinois, 1871: The Diary of Pringle Rose
2013
85
Down the Rabbit Hole, Chicago, Illinois, 1871: The Diary of Pringle Rose (By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti)
2013
86
A City Tossed and Broken: The Diary of Minnie Bonner, San Francisco, California, 1906
2013
87
A City Tossed and Broken: The Diary of Minnie Bonner, San Francisco, California, 1906 (By: Judy Blundell)