Carol Matas

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  • Bibliography:
    40 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1992
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Freak

1 - The Freak (Apr-2008)
2 - Visions (Jun-2008)
3 - Far (Sep-2008)

Legoland

1 - Adventure in Legoland ()
2 - Safari Adventure In Legoland (Mar-1993)

Princess Lenora and Prince Coren

1 - Of Two Minds (Oct-1995)
2 - More Minds (Oct-1996)

Rosie

Rosie in New York City: Gotcha! (Jun-2003)
Rosie in Chicago: Play Ball! (Nov-2003)
Rosie in Los Angeles: Action! (Feb-2004)

Book List in Order: 40 titles

  • Kris's War

  • Safari Adventure In Legoland

    Legoland - 2

    Elephants and galloping giraffes are pretty dangerous -- especially if you are only a few inches tall! "We have to stop him," Aaron said. "He'll get hurt." Aryeh smiled. "It's very difficult for a Lego person to actually get hurt, but the way Saf...

  • Daniel's Story

    Daniel barely remembers leading a normal life before the Nazis came to power in 1933. He can still picture once being happy and safe, but memories of those days are fading as he and his family face the dangers threatening Jews in Hitler's Germany in ...

  • Of Two Minds

    Princess Lenora and Prince Coren - 1

    "IF YOU WISH TO FLEE, CREATE SOMETHING OF YOUR OWN ...." Princess Lenora and Prince Coren are trapped in their own worlds. Lenora has the ability to make whatever she imagines real. But she is strictly forbidden to do this by her parents and the l...

  • More Minds

    Princess Lenora and Prince Coren - 2

    "ANY SENSIBLE PERSON WOULD BE HEADING AWAY FROM THE GIANT. . . ." Princess Lenora is not a sensible person. She has the power to alter the present -- and she's not afraid to use it. Prince Coren can read minds, but he tries to do it as little as p...

  • Primrose Path

  • After the War

    Didn't the gas ovens finish you all off? is the response that meets Ruth Mendenberg when she returns to her village in Poland after the liberation of Buchenwald at the end of World War II. Her entire family wiped out in the Holocaust, the fifteen-yea...

  • The Garden

    After leading a group of Jewish refugees to Israel after World War II, sixteen-year-old Ruth joins the Haganah, the Jewish Army, and helps her people fight to keep the land granted to them by the United Nations...

  • In My Enemies House

    They won't kill everyone in the ghetto right away, he continued, his voice matter-of-fact. They still need workers. But not for too long. After all, they have us Poles to work for them, don't they? He paused then, and looked at me. I was frozen like ...



  • In My Enemy's House

    "They won't kill everyone in the ghetto right away," he continues, his voice matter-of-fact. "They still need workers. But not for long. After all, they have us Poles to work for them, don't they?" He paused then, and looked at me. It was frozen like...

  • Sparks Fly Upward

    Family means everything to 12-year-old Rebecca Bernstein. Even after a fire destroys their farm and the family must relocate to the bustling city of Winnipeg, Rebecca feels safe and happy as long as everyone is together. But life is hard in the city,...

  • The War Within

    Holly Springs, Mississippi, 1862 Hannah Green can't believe what happens to her family after the war breaks out. First, her sister Joanna falls in love with a Union soldier -- an enemy. Next, the same soldier tells Hannah and her family about...

  • Rosie in New York City: Gotcha!

    Rosie

    At age eleven, Rosie Lepidus's main concerns are winning ring-a-levio, going to school, and staying out of trouble. But when Mama falls ill with pneumonia and Papa throws all the family's savings into the nickelodeon business, the burden of caring fo...

  • Rosie in Chicago: Play Ball!

    Rosie

    When the best player on the Chavarim baseball team gets injured, Rosie's brother Abe suggests that she disguise herself as a boy and take his place on the team, but playing with an all-male team is way out of Rosie's league, even if she does have a s...

  • Rosie in Los Angeles: Action!

    Rosie

    With the success of Papa's latest baseball film, Rosie and her family move to beautiful Los Angeles to shoot more films starring Rosie. And there's no wasting time; within days of unpacking, Papa brings home an entire Wild West show so he can make au...

  • The Whirlwind

    It is 1941. Fourteen-year-old Ben Friedman flees the horrors of Nazi Germany with his parents and his sister, leaving behind his grandparents, his friends, his home. They make a difficult journey over land and sea all the way to Japan and then to Ame...

  • Past Crimes

    After the murder of her husband, 19-year-old Ros and her one-year-old son relocate to live with her parents. Palm Springs -- full of sunlight, small and safe -- should be the perfect place to bring up a child. But things aren't always as they app...

  • The Burning Time

    Rose's idyllic existence in sixteenth century france is destroyed when her father dies, and her mother―a midwife and healer to half the families in the town―is arrested and accused of being a witch. When her mother begs Rose to save herself, Rose...

  • Code Name Kris

    Determined to make a difference in the war, Jesper refuses to stop fighting the Nazis in Carol Mata’s “stirring account” of a young boy facing the dangers of World War II (Publishers Weekly).In the sequel to Lisa’s War, Jesper...



  • Lisa's War

    Carol Matas shares a “powerful account” of two young teenagers who are willing to stop at nothing to prevent the danger the German invasion of 1940 brought to Denmark (Publishers Weekly).The Nazis have invaded Denmark, putting Lisa and he...

  • The Freak

    Freak - 1

    Conventional wisdom says that any teenager would be thrilled to suddenly have psychic abilities. They could figure out of if that person they have a crush on returns the feeling, or find out what their friends really think of them. But would it reall...

  • Visions

    Freak - 2

    It's been a few months since Jade discovered her strange new "powers" -- and she's pretty sure that a dream is no longer just a dream. How else to explain seeing someone in your sleep who ends up murdered the next day? And what happens when one of ...

  • Proof that Ghosts Exist

    Molly and Adam aren’t thrilled about their dad’s upcoming birthday. Whether it’s a family curse or just bad luck, the Barnett males have a distressing tendency to drop dead the day before they turn 35. Their mom has a plan, though: a trip to th...

  • Far

    Freak - 3

    In 1997, Carol Matas' The Freak introduced readers to Jade, a 15-year-old girl who woke up after a life-threatening illness with an unexpected psychic "gift." But what she knew -- and told -- about her friends' innermost thoughts made her socia...

  • The Hunt for the Haunted Elephant

    Molly and Adam Barnett have had more than enough trouble lately. First, they discovered that their dearly departed grandfather wasn’t quite as "departed” as a dead guy should be. Then, they had to save their dad from a dreaded family curse. The ...

  • Behind Enemy Lines : World War II, Sam Frederiksen, Nazi-Occupied Europe, 1944

    A young WWII gunner from the Prairies sees the horrors of war firsthand when he is captured by the Gestapo.Eighteen-year-old Sam Frederiksen has come a long way from the Prairies. Trained to be a gunner in a Lancaster bomber during WWII, he is shot d...

  • The Edge of When

    Rebecca worries about the things a normal twelve-year-old girl would worry about: starting junior high, her friends, her family. But when she witnesses a kidnapping and finds herself transported into a terrifying world of the future, Rebecca not ...

  • Turned Away

    This dramatic story tells of 11-year-old Devorah's efforts to help her cousin and pen pal Sarah emigrate from Paris before the Nazis deport the Jews to internment camps. Devorah learns that 5,000 Jewish children in France have visas to leave the coun...

  • Something That Matters

    A holiday treat for fans of the Dear Canada series, and all lovers of historical fiction! Holiday cheer really does go a long way. Devorah is still trying to make others aware of the desperate plight of Jews in Europe under Hitler's Nazi regime. And ...



  • Pieces of the Past

    A young Jewish girl recounts her experiences during a horrifying time in recent history.As Rose begins her diary, she is in her third home since coming to Winnipeg. Traumatized by her experiences in the Holocaust, she struggles to connect with others...

  • Sworn Enemies

    Book description change: Aaron and Zev have been protected from serving in the czar's army for very different reasons--Aaron's father pays to keep his scholarly son free and Zev works as a khapper, kidnapping other poor, young Jewish boys to fulfill ...

  • Tucson Jo

    2014 National Jewish Book Award Finalist Feisty fourteen-year-old Josephine Fiedler is reluctant to support her father's bid for mayor of Tucson in 1882: "I could be sealing my fate, helping to elect someone who wants nothing more than my docility." ...

  • Footsteps In the Snow: The Red River Diary of Isobel Scott, Rupert's Land, 1815

    Isobel thinks that she and her family will find their fortune in Canada. But Isobel's mother dies before they even cross the ocean, and other misfortunes follow their every step. Isobel's family and the other Selkirk Settlers, caught in the fur-tradi...

  • Who Am I?

    An Action-packed Sci-Fi Thriller for YA & Middle Grades

    Fourteen-year-old Miranda has it all: beauty, brains, talent, perfect health. Until the day her vision goes blurry " the first symptom of a fatal disease. As she and her parents fi...

  • Cloning Miranda

    An Action-packed Sci-Fi Thriller for Middle Grades & YA

    A new updated edition that combines Canadian bestseller, Cloning Miranda, with its two sequels, The Second Clone and The Dark Clone into a single gripping adventure.

    Fourteen-year...

  • A Struggle for Hope

    Ruth survived the Holocaust and the long journey to Palestine. Now she finds herself once again in a war zone as Israel battles for its existence. Her brother is on the front lines. Ruth and her boyfriend are injured and cannot fight, so they care fo...

  • Zevi Takes the Spotlight

    Key Selling Points Thirteen-year-old Zevi uses his psychic powers to save the life of a famous actor during the filming of a movie. This story examines the effects of fame and the importance of choices, while exploring themes of responsibility, empat...

  • Adventure in Legoland

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    Legoland - 1

    On a family trip to Legoland park in Denmark, Aaron answers the queen's call for help and finds himself riding a knobby, plastic, little horse searching for a kidnapped prince in the western town of Legorado...

  • Greater Than Angels

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    • Buy Buy

    Luckily for Anna Hirsch, she and the other children of her neighborhood, deported by the Nazis in 1940, wind up in Le Chambon, a tiny village in the south of France, whose courageous citizens have agreed to care for deported children....



  • Rebecca

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    • Buy Buy

    Rebecca learned at a young age how important it is to be liked, when her family left Russia to settle in Hirsch, Saskatchewan, a mostly Jewish community. But Rebecca's close-knit extended family returns from her triumph on-stage at an amateur night t...

Award-Winning Books by Carol Matas

Sworn Enemies
1993 Sydney Taylor Book Award -- Older Readers


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Carol Matas has published 40 books.

Carol Matas does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Zevi Takes the Spotlight, was published in April 2024.

The first book by Carol Matas, Kris's War, was published in May 1992.

Yes. Carol Matas has 4 series.
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