Laurie Halse Anderson, Author . Viking $17.99 (278p) ISBN 978-0-670-01110-0
Acute anorexia, self-mutilation, dysfunctional families and the death of a childhood friend—returning to psychological minefields akin to those explored in Speak
, Anderson delivers a harrowing story overlaid with a trace of mysticism. The...
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Laurie Halse Anderson. Atheneum/Dlouhy, $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4169-6146-8
Picking up in June 1781, three years after Forge (2010), this thrilling conclusion to Anderson’s Seeds of America trilogy finds former slaves Isobel and Curzon finally locating Isobel’s younger sister, Ruth, on a South Carolina plantation. The...
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Laurie Halse Anderson. Viking, $18.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-670-01209-1
As in Speak, Anderson provides a riveting study of a psychologically scarred teenager, peeling back layers of internal defenses to reveal a girl’s deepest wounds. Her heroine, 17-year-old Hayley, is no stranger to loss. Her mother died when she was...
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Laurie Halse Anderson, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $17 (198p) ISBN 978-0-374-37152-4
In a stunning first novel, Anderson uses keen observations and vivid imagery to pull readers into the head of an isolated teenager. Divided into the four marking periods of an academic year, the novel, narrated by Melinda Sordino, begins on her...
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Laurie Halse Anderson, S&S/Atheneum, $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4169-6144-4
Second in the Seeds of America trilogy, this sequel to the National Book Award finalist Chains is narrated by Curzon, the slave Isabel freed from prison while escaping her own enslavement in 1777 New York City. Curzon immediately explains how he and
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Laurie Halse Anderson, Author Puffin Books $8.99 (198p) ISBN 978-0-14-131088-6
PW said of this stunning first novel narrated by a rape survivor, ""Anderson infuses the narrative with a wit that sustains the heroine through her pain and holds readers' empathy."" Ages 12--up. (Apr.)
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Laurie Halse Anderson, Author . Simon & Schuster $16.99 (316p) ISBN 978-1-4169-0585-1
Pursuing similar themes as M.T. Anderson's Octavian Nothing
, this gripping novel offers readers a startlingly provocative view of the Revolutionary War. Isabel Finch, the narrator, and her five-year-old sister, Ruth, are to be freed from...
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Laurie Halse Anderson, Author . Viking $16.99 (250p) ISBN 978-0-670-06101-3
At first, Anderson's (Speak
) contemporary novel appears to be a "twisted" version of a Cinderella story. Unpopular senior Tyler Miller ("a zit on the butt of the student body") gains stature and notoriety the summer after he...
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Laurie Halse Anderson, Author . Penguin/Speak $8.99 (216p) ISBN 978-0-14-240570-3
"This energetic novel, narrated by Ashley, offers snappy commentary about high-school life, and some priceless scenes," wrote PW
. Ages 14-up. (Feb.)
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Laurie Halse Anderson, Author . Viking $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-670-05974-4
Ashley Hannigan has her future all planned out. She'll graduate by the skin of her teeth (if she can serve the detentions she's racked up and pay her overdue book fines), and then she'll move into an apartment with her 19-year-old...
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Laurie Halse Anderson, Author . Viking $17.99 (233p) ISBN 978-0-670-03566-3
Like its cross-country–running heroine, Anderson's (Speak) latest novel starts off promisingly, then loses its pacing about midway through. The narrator, 18-year-old Kate Malone, has placed all of her eggs in one basket: she has applied...
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Laurie Halse Anderson, Author . S&S/Aladdin $5.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-689-84891-9
PW
called this ambitious novel about the yellow fever epidemic that ravaged 18th-century Philadelphia "extremely well researched. However, larger scale views take precedence over the kind of intimate scenes that Anderson crafted so masterfully...
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Laurie Halse Anderson, Author, Matt Faulkner, Illustrator , illus. by Matt Faulkner. Simon & Schuster $16.99 (37p) ISBN 978-0-689-85808-6
Anderson and Faulkner try to do for the women of Colonial America what they did so successfully for the lady behind Thanksgiving in Thank You, Sarah
. Opening with a provocative question about why a school play on the Revolution lacks roles for...
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Laurie Halse Anderson, Author, Matt Faulkner, Illustrator , illus. by Matt Faulkner. S&S $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-84787-5
This tale of a little-known historical heroine touts the power of the pen and persistence. With an irreverent tone ("You think you know everything about Thanksgiving, don't you?") and caricatures that play up past Americans' laissez-f
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Laurie Halse Anderson, Author, Ard Hoyt, Illustrator , illus. by Ard Hoyt. S&S $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-85809-3
Rapunzel has nothing on young Zoe, whose flowing red tresses are not only her crowning glory but can also “turn on the TV, pour a glass of juice, pet the cat, and play on the computer—all at the same time.” But while Zoe's...
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Laurie Halse Anderson, Author, Lori Earley, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $17.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-689-83858-3
The opening scene of Anderson's ambitious novel about the yellow fever epidemic that ravaged Philadelphia in the late 18th century shows a hint of the gallows humor and insight of her previous novel, Speak. Sixteen-year-old Matilda ""Mattie"" Cook...
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Laurie Halse Anderson, Author, Anita Van Der Merwe, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-3265-9
On her way to school, a nimble girl races barefoot across the Kenyan countryside in this energetic tale, the author's first. As Ndito's ""strong feet sing fast in the dust,"" she ""calls up animal dreams to keep her company."" She imagines herself a
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Laurie Halse Anderson, Author, David Gordon, Illustrator , illus. by David Gordon. S&S $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-82464-7
Little Benny Antonelli is "no bigger than a peanut butter sandwich," a real handicap on Third Street, which is peopled with "bus-sized women," "skyscraper-sized men" and "kids taller than streetlights." Newcomer...
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