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Review of Rebellion 1776
Rebellion 1776 by Laurie Halse Anderson Middle School Dlouhy/Atheneum 416 pp. 4/25 9781416968269 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781439157541 $10.99 Thirteen-year-old Elsbeth Culpepper, maid to a judge, lives through the Siege of Boston only to find herself in a precarious situation when British troops depart the city, her Loyalist employer leaves with...
Laurie Halse Anderson "Salon" with Porter Square Books
On April 1 (no fooling!) I attended a "salon event" for Laurie Halse Anderson, hosted by Porter Square Books. Anderson was there to discuss her new middle-grade novel, Rebellion 1776, which will be starred in the upcoming May/June Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: Perception and Reality. The salon was intimate and conversational —...
Laurie Halse Anderson Talks with Roger
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by Winner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction for Chains, set in 1776 New York, Laurie Halse Anderson comes up the coast for Rebellion 1776, a novel set...
Five questions for Laurie Halse Anderson
Photo: Randy Fontanilla.This year marks the twentieth anniversary of Laurie Halse Anderson’s landmark novel Speak (Farrar, 12–16 years), about Melinda, a teenage rape victim who reclaims her voice. Now in SHOUT (Viking, 14 years and up), the author presents a “poetry memoir” that explores frequently painful events in her own...
Review of SHOUT: A Poetry Memoir
SHOUT: A Poetry Memoirby Laurie Halse AndersonHigh School Viking 290 pp. g3/19 978-0-670-01210-7 $17.99“This is the story of a girl who lost her voice and wrote herself a new one.” So opens Anderson’s three-part autobiographical collection of dynamic, mostly free-verse poems that serves as a potent poetic endnote for her...
Review of Speak: The Graphic Novel
Speak: The Graphic Novelby Laurie Halse Anderson; illus. by Emily CarrollHigh School Farrar 376 pp.2/18 978-0-374-30028-9 $19.99In this new graphic novel adaptation of Anderson’s Speak (rev. 9/99) — a powerful narrative of a high school freshman’s year of self-preservation after a brutal sexual assault — artist Carroll starkly renders protagonist...
Fall 2016 Publishers' Preview: Five Questions for Laurie Halse Anderson
This interview originally appeared in the September/October 2016 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Fall Publishers’ Preview, a semiannual advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions.Sponsored by Photo courtesy of Laurie...
Review of Speak
Speakby Laurie Halse AndersonMiddle School, High School Farrar 198 pp. g10/99 ISBN 0-374-37152-0 $16.00Speaking out at the “wrong” time — calling 911 from a teen drinking party — has made Melinda a social outcast; now she barely speaks at all. A conversation with her...
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