Kathleen Karr books

Chapter

Dear Mr. President Reading Order

Destiny’s Dreamers Reading Order

Hyperion Chapters Reading Order

Non-Fiction

Serenade Saga Reading Order

Skullduggery Reading Order

Standalone Novels

The Petticoat Party Reading Order

Kathleen Karr published more than 50 books over a career spanning from 1984 to 2008. She began with the Serenade Saga, a sequence of nine inspirational romance novels published between 1984 and 1987. In the early 1990s she shifted to children’s historical fiction, the genre she became best known for. Her books are set across a wide range of American historical periods, from the colonial era to the early twentieth century.

Among her best-known works are The Great Turkey Walk (1998), a humorous novel about a boy herding turkeys across Missouri to Denver in 1860, and The Boxer (2000), a grittier story about a fifteen-year-old Irish immigrant fighting his way through the boxing world of 1880s New York. She also wrote the four-book Petticoat Party series about girls on the Oregon Trail, the Dear Mr. President series of fictional letters to US presidents, and the Skullduggery books about a boy who discovers a collection of phrenology skulls. Her Hyperion Chapters books were aimed at beginning readers and early chapter book audiences. Karr drew on her background in filmmaking and education, and many of her books have been used in school classrooms.