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Laurie Halse Anderson

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50+ verk 44,377 medlemmar 2,032 recensioner 112 favoritmärkta

Om författaren

Laurie Halse Anderson was born in Potsdam, New York on October 23, 1961. She received a B.S.L.L. in Languages and Linguistics from Georgetown University in 1984. Before becoming a full-time author, she worked as a freelance reporter. Her first book, Ndito Runs, was published in 1996. She has visa mer written numerous books for children including Turkey Pox, No Time for Mother's Day, Fever 1793, Speak, Catalyst, Independent Dames: What You Never Knew about the Women and Girls of the American Revolution, Chains and The Impossible Knife of Memory. She also created the Wild at Heart series, which was originally published by American Girl but is now called the Vet Volunteers series and is published by Penguin Books for Young Readers. Anderson has been nominated and won multiple honorary awards for her literary work. For the masterpiece Speak, Anderson won the Printz Honor Book Award, a National Book Award nomination, Golden Kite award, the Edgar Allan Poe Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her book Fever 1793 won the American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults selection and the Junior Library Guild selection. In 2008, Chains was selected for the National Book Award Finalist and in 2009 was awarded for its Historical Fiction the Scott O'Dell Award. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Laurie Halse Anderson

Speak (1999) 14,713 exemplar
Fever 1793 (2000) 6,362 exemplar
Wintergirls (2009) 4,039 exemplar
Chains (2008) 3,995 exemplar
Twisted (2007) 2,553 exemplar
Catalyst (2002) 2,066 exemplar
Skärvor av minnen (2014) 1,367 exemplar
Forge (2010) 1,316 exemplar
Prom (2005) 1,133 exemplar
SHOUT (2019) 901 exemplar
Fight for Life (2000) 708 exemplar
Ashes (2016) 679 exemplar
Speak: The Graphic Novel (2018) 599 exemplar
Homeless (2000) 515 exemplar
Trickster (2000) 282 exemplar
Say Good-Bye (1986) 277 exemplar
Storm Rescue (2001) 268 exemplar
Manatee Blues (2000) 260 exemplar
Teacher's Pet (1964) 187 exemplar
Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed (2020) 154 exemplar
Time to Fly (2002) 134 exemplar
Acting Out (2012) 82 exemplar
Trapped (2001) 80 exemplar
Fear of Falling (2001) 77 exemplar
New Beginnings (2012) 72 exemplar
Masks (2002) 57 exemplar
Wonder Women of History (2021) 49 exemplar
End of the Race (2003) 48 exemplar
No Time for Mother's Day (1999) 40 exemplar
Turkey Pox (1996) 39 exemplar
Ndito Runs (1996) 38 exemplar
The Big Cheese of Third Street (2002) 19 exemplar
Treading Water (2014) 14 exemplar
Helping Hands (2013) 12 exemplar
Left Behind (2016) 11 exemplar
A Ticket to Saudi Arabia (2001) 8 exemplar
Saudi Arabia (2000) 7 exemplar
Mluv (2016) 3 exemplar
The Epilogue 1 exemplar

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Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World (2017) — Bidragsgivare — 258 exemplar
Love & Sex (2001) — Bidragsgivare — 68 exemplar
Guys Read: Heroes and Villains (2017) — Bidragsgivare — 45 exemplar
Dirty Laundry: Stories About Family Secrets (1998) — Bidragsgivare — 38 exemplar

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Recensioner

A wonderful young adult novel about the yellow fever pandemic in Philadelphia in 1793. Historical fiction at its best. Great for a discussion on far we have come with science on our recent pandemic.
 
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jtsolakos | 236 andra recensioner | Mar 10, 2024 |
Themes remind me of The Female of the Species - though that one is more gut-wrenching, so be warned.
 
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boopingaround | 33 andra recensioner | Mar 6, 2024 |
A really wonderful YA Wonder Woman story that steers a teenage Diana away from Themyscira and onto a path of social activism and getting a look at the world of immigration and refugees. I loved the themes in this and thought they were very well written; it was serious and thoughtful and didn’t seem like the writers were pandering to the teen audience. Diana seems wholly realized, full of heart and compassion but also strength, and it was especially gratifying that she wasn’t written as being a blindly patriotic super soldier but rather a young woman building a healthy community and friendships.… (mer)
 
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deborahee | 12 andra recensioner | Feb 23, 2024 |
Wow. This was stunning, in regards to both the story and the artwork. This is the first time I've read "Speak" in any form, but am definitely going to be picking up the novel to read it again. Mel's story is written so well in Anderson's writing and captured perfectly in Carroll's haunting style. The sense of being a rabbit with shortened breath was just felt so deeply within "Speak" that it was impossible to not feel what Mel was feeling and be get completely caught up in her life. This book is outstanding. // Content warnings: rape, self-harm, physical abuse, severe anxiety & depression,… (mer)
 
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deborahee | 33 andra recensioner | Feb 23, 2024 |

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Verk
50
Även av
4
Medlemmar
44,377
Popularitet
#374
Betyg
4.0
Recensioner
2,032
ISBN
650
Språk
19
Favoritmärkt
112

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