Katherine Paterson

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  • Bibliography:
    40 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1973
  • Latest Book:
    May 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Marvin

Marvin's Best Christmas Present Ever (Nov-1997)
Marvin One Too Many (Aug-2001)

Book List in Order: 40 titles

  • The Sign of the Chrysanthemum

    • / General Fiction
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    Against the rich and colorful backdrop of Japan during the turbulent samurai period, Katherine Paterson, two-time National Book Award Winner, tells one of her most exciting adventure stories. Muna -- the nameless one -- only son of a legendary samura...

  • Of Nightingales That Weep

    The daughter of a samurai never weeps. But Takiko, whose warrior father has been killed in the civil wars between the Heike and Genji clans, finds this a hard rule, for she resents and even fears her mother's new husband. When she is offered an excit...

  • The Master Puppeteer

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    Who is the man called Sabura, the mysterious bandit who robs the rich and helps the poor? And what is his connection with Yosida, the harsh and ill- tempered master of feudal Japan's most famous puppet theater? Young Jiro, an apprentice to Yosida...

  • Bridge to Terabithia

    Two lives are bridged -- and nothing will be the same. Jesse Aarons’ greatest ambition is to be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. He's been practicing all summer and can't wait to see his classmates' faces when he beats them all. But on the...

  • The Great Gilly Hopkins

    NOBODY GETS THE BETTER OF THE GREAT GILLY HOPKINS Eleven-year-old Gilly Hopkins is famous for being brash, brilliant, and completely unmanageable. None of her foster homes has been able to tame her yet. So when Gilly is sent to live with the Tr...

  • Jacob Have I Loved

    My twin sister was adored by everyone but me -- the one who should have loved her best. "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated...." With her grandmother's taunt, Louise knew that she, like the biblical Esau, was the despised elder twin. Carol...

  • Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom

    Wang Lee is a young peasant boy, caught up in a secret group dedicated to overthrowing the hated Manchu emperor of China. Wang Lee faces a tough challenge: he must learn to be a soldier and kill for his cause. As the battles rage on, Wang Lee finds h...

  • Come Sing, Jimmy Jo

    Written by Newbery, National Book Award, and Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal winner Katherine Paterson

    The Johnsons are becoming country music stars. They're on TV and the radio--and it's all because of James. His voice and his guitar playing brin...

  • Park's Quest

    "Other people have fathers every day. Can't I have a little piece of mine?" Park can't figure out why his mother refuses to talk about his father who died in Vietnam eleven years ago. Park has no memory of him. . . . But he is determined to find t...



  • The Spying Heart

    In speeches, essays, and book reviews, the novelist Katherine Paterson discusses why she writes children's books, where her ideas come from, how she develops her characters and realistic plots, and her experiences growing up in China....

  • Lyddie

    When ten-year-old Lyddie and her younger brother are hired out as servants to help pay off their family farm’s debts, Lyddie is determined to find a way to reunite her family. A story of determination and personal growth, Lyddie has already establi...

  • The Smallest Cow in the World

    I Can Read: Level 3

    Rosie was the meanest cow in the world. Nobody liked her. Except Marvin. Marvin loved Rosie. Then the farm where Marvin's father works is sold. Rosie is sold, too. Marvin is sad. He is very, very sad. Mom, Dad, Marvin, and May all move to a new far...

  • The King's Equal

    Who is she?

    A dying king makes his son his heir--on one condition. Vain Prince Raphael must marry a woman who is his equal in beauty, intelligence, and wealth...

    Where is this woman?

    A search thr...

  • Flip-Flop Girl

    "Written by Newbery Medalist, National Book Award winner, and Laura Ingalls Wilder Award recipient, and author of Bridge to Terabithia.

    Vinnie Matthews needs a real lifesaver--on that will bring her father back to life and let her family go ho...

  • A Midnight Clear

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    A treasury of stories to share year after year Each Christmas Eve when John Paterson was a pastor, he read an original story to his congregation -- a story that illuminated the true meaning of the holiday season, written by his wife, two-time Newber...

  • The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks

    Wrtitten by Newbery Medalist Katherine Paterson with painting by Caldecott winning illustrators Leo and Diane Dillon

    A beautiful mandarin duck is captured and caged by a greedy lord who wants to show off the bird's magnificent plumage. But the...

  • Jip: His Story

    Jip's past is a puzzle and solving it is dangerous. After tumbling off the back of a wagon, Jip was brought to the town poor farm. He has lived there ever since, content to do chores and tend animals -- until the day the lunatic comes. Caged like ...

  • Marvin's Best Christmas Present Ever

    Marvin
    I Can Read: Level 3

    Christmas is coming...

    ... and Marvin is worried. His big sister, May, always makes great presents for their parents, and Marvin's are never as good. But this year, he is determined to make the best Christmas present ever --...

  • Parzival: The Quest of the Grail Knight

    An unknown destiny... A terrible curse... A never-ending quest... Raised by his mother in the wilderness, Parzival knows nothing of knights and chivalry -- or of his own destiny as the son of Gahmuret, a member of Arthur's Round Table. Yet once he ...



  • Celia and the Sweet, Sweet Water

    While on an adventure to find the water of lost youth for her mother, Celia along with her persnickity dog Brumble are sucessful in their mission and restore happiness to three very unhappy creatures along the way....

  • The Red Dragonfly

    in Places I Never Meant to Be

    "What effect does [the climate of censorship] have on a writer?....It's chilling. It's easy to become discouraged, to second-guess everything you write. There seemed to be no one to stand up to the censors....so I began to speak out about my experie...

  • Preacher's Boy

    It's 1899 in a small town in Vermont, and the turn of the century is coming fast. According to certain members of the church where Robbie's father is the preacher, the end of the century might even mean the end of the world. But Robbie has more press...

  • The Wide-Awake Princess

    In this amusing, eloquently told story, created by Katherine Paterson specifically for artist Vladimir Vagin to illustrate with his beautifully detailed watercolors, there was born a wise little princess who was different from everyone else. Miranda ...

  • The Field of the Dogs

    Since moving to Vermont, Josh's life has been a series of new problems. One day he follows his dog, Manch, into a snowy field and gets the surprise of a lifetime--Manch can talk!

    Taut and suspenseful, Newbery Medel-winning author Katherine P...

  • Marvin One Too Many

    Marvin
    I Can Read: Level 3

    Share the love of reading with your beginner reader!

    I Can Read books are widely recognised as the premier line of beginner readers. Inaugurated in 1957 with Else Holmelund Minarik's Little Bear, illustrated by Maurice Sendak, the series...

  • The Same Stuff as Stars

    2013 Laura Ingalls Wilder AwardAngel Morgan needs help. Daddy is in jail, and Mama has abandoned her and her little brother, leaving them with their great-grandmother. Grandma is aged and poor, and doesn’t make any attempt to care for the children ...

  • The Angel and the Donkey

    Near the Euphrates River, as Moses leads the Israelites in search of their homeland, a stubborn donkey delivers a message from an angel and helps her master save the Israelites from the King of Moab, in a richly illustrated tale from the Hebrew Bible...

  • Bread and Roses, Too

    2013 Laura Ingalls Wilder AwardRosa’s mother is singing again, for the first time since Papa died in an accident in the mills. But instead of filling their cramped tenement apartment with Italian lullabies, Mamma is out on the streets singing union...

  • Blueberries for the Queen

    It's summertime in New England during World War II, and a boy named William likes to imagine at bedtime that he is a brave knight fighting great battles to end the war. But in the morning he is always just William again, not big enough to contribute ...



  • The Day of the Pelican

    2013 Laura Ingalls Wilder AwardMeli Lleshi is positive that her drawing of her teacher with his pelican nose started it all. The Lleshis are Albanians living in Kosovo, a country trying to fight off Serbian oppressors, and suddenly they are homeless ...

  • Brother Sun, Sister Moon

    In Brother Sun, Sister Moon, award-winning author Katherine Paterson re-imagines a hymn of praise originally written by Saint Francis of Assisi in 1224. Illuminated with the exquisite illustrations of cut-paper artist Pamela Dalton, this picture book...

  • A Stubborn Sweetness and Other Stories for the Christmas Season

    A Stubborn Sweetness and Other Stories for the Christmas Season is a collection of modern-day short stories by Katherine Paterson, award-winning author of Bridge to Terabithia and The Great Gilly Hopkins -- both loved by children and adults for ov...

  • Giving Thanks

    Newbery Medal winner Katherine Paterson and cut-paper artist Pamela Dalton give fans of all ages even more to be thankful for with Giving Thanks, a special book about gratitude. Katherine Paterson's meditations on what it means to be truly grateful a...

  • Puente Hasta Terabithia

    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Jess Aarons gains the strength to cope with unexpected tragedy by going to a secret kingdom in the woods invented by Leslie Burke, a newcomer to his rural Virginia community....

  • My Brigadista Year

    In an engrossing historical novel, the Newbery Medal-winning author of Bridge to Terabithia follows a young Cuban teenager as she volunteers for Fidel Castro’s national literacy campaign and travels into the impoverished countryside to teach others...

  • The Night of His Birth

    Sing out, my soul, the wonder . . . Mary’s baby has arrived, and she can’t contain her joy! As Joseph sleeps, she examines her newborn’s tiny mouth, his wild hair, his little hands. Yet what’s most wondrous is that this child is not just M...

  • Birdie's Bargain

    In a poignant and unflinching new realistic novel from the Newbery Medalâ€"winning author of Bridge to Terabithia, a ten-year-old girl makes a deal with God for her father's safe return from the Iraq War. Birdie has questions for God. For starters, w...

  • William and the Mysterious Brame

    A love letter to books and reading by beloved Newbery Award-winning author Katherine Paterson. William hates reading. It's so boring! Word after word, page after page, chapter after chapter, ugh. So when his local library starts stocking somethi...

  • Angels and Other Strangers

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    In unexpected and heartwarming ways, twoâ€"time Newbery Medalist Katherine Paterson has written a collection of nine inspirational short stories that illuminate the true meaning of the Christmas story. Hope and celebration are the common threads i...



  • Lyddie // Jip Flip Book

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    Jip is a historical story for young people about friendship and loyalty. Lyddie is a story of an intelligent young woman who deals with lots of hardships and troubles but makes a better life for herself through her determination and perserverence. Th...

Award-Winning Books by Katherine Paterson

Bridge to Terabithia
1978 Newbery Medal -- Children's
1983 Virginia Readers Choice Award -- Elementary
1986 Colorado Blue Spruce Award -- Young Adult
The Great Gilly Hopkins
1979 National Book Award -- Children's
1980 Iowa Children's Choice (ICCA) Award -- Children's
1981 Garden State Children's Book Award -- Children's Fiction
1981 Georgia Children's Book Award -- Children's Book
Jacob Have I Loved
1981 Newbery Medal -- Children's
Jip: His Story
1997 Scott O Dell Award for Historical Fiction -- Historical Fiction
1999 Parents Choice Award (Fall) (1998-2007) -- Silver
The King's Equal
1992 Irma S. & James H. Black Award -- Children's Literature
1993 Irma S. & James H. Black Award -- Children's Literature
The Master Puppeteer
1977 National Book Award -- Children's
Preacher's Boy
2000 Jefferson Cup -- Young Adults
The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks
1991 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award -- Picture Book


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Katherine Paterson has published 40 books.

Katherine Paterson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, William and the Mysterious Brame, was published in May 2022.

The first book by Katherine Paterson, The Sign of the Chrysanthemum, was published in January 1973.

Yes. Katherine Paterson has 1 series.
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