Karen S. Hesse (born August 29, 1952) is an American author of children's literature and literature for young adults, often with historical settings. She...

Phoenix Rising is a 1994 book by Karen Hesse. It is a realistic fiction book about thirteen-year old Nyle Sumner, who learns about love and death after...

Out of the Dust is a children's verse novel by Karen Hesse, first published on January 1, 1997. Billie Jo begins with how her father wanted to have a...

a children's historical novel by Karen Hesse, published by Holt in 1992. The novel is based on the life of Hesse's great-aunt Lucille Avrutin. With an...

Witness is a free poetry book of historical fiction written by Karen Hesse in 2001, concentrating on racism in a rural Vermont town in 1924. Voices include...

Prize in Literature 1946 Karen Hesse (born 1952), US writer Konrad Hesse (1919–2005), German jurist Lebrecht James Chinery-Hesse (1930–2018), Ghanaian lawyer...

The Music of Dolphins, by Karen Hesse, is a children's book that follows the story of Mila, a feral child raised by a pod of dolphins around the Florida...

novels for younger readers, most notably Karen Hesse's Out of the Dust (1997), which won a Newbery Medal. Hesse followed it with Witness (2001). Since then...

Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861 by Karen Hesse (1999) The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo...

Mila Superstar) Mila, in the children's book The Music of Dolphins by Karen Hesse Mila Babicheva, in the anime Yuri on Ice Milla (disambiguation) Ludmila...