Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Publisher: Atheneum
Keywords: chains
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2010-01-05
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 1416905863
ISBN-13: 9781416905868

If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth and Isabel. When Isabel meets Curzon, a slave with ties to the Patriots, he encourages her to spy on her owners, who know details of British plans for invasion. She is reluctant at first, but when the

Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Publisher: Speak
Keywords: wintergirls
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2010-02-23
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 014241557X
ISBN-13: 9780142415573

The New York Times bestselling story of a friendship frozen between life and death Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in fragile bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the thinnest. But then Cassie suffers the ultimate loss-her life-and Lia is left behind, haunted by her friend’s memory and racked with guilt for not being able to help save her. In her most powerfully moving novel since Speak, award-winning author Laurie Halse Anderson explores Lia’s struggle, her painful path to recovery, and her desperate attempts to hold on to the most import

Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Publisher: Speak
Keywords: twisted
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-05-15
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 0142411841
ISBN-13: 9780142411841

Another New York Times bestseller from Laurie Halse Anderson! High school senior Tyler Miller used to be the kind of guy who faded into the background. But since he got busted for doing graffiti on the school, and spent the summer doing outdoor work to pay for it, he stands out like you wouldn’t believe. His new physique attracts the attention of queen bee Bethany Milbury, who just so happens to be his father’s boss’s daughter, the sister of his biggest enemy— and Tyler’s secret crush. And that sets off a string of events and changes that have Tyler questioning his place in

Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
Keywords: fever
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2002-03-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0689848919
ISBN-13: 9780689848919

During the summer of 1793, Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with her widowed mother and grandfather. Mattie spends her days avoiding chores and making plans to turn the family business into the finest Philadelphia has ever seen. But then the fever breaks out. Disease sweeps the streets, destroying everything in its path and turning Mattie’s world upside down. At her feverish mother’s insistence, Mattie flees the city with her grandfather. But she soon discovers that the sickness is everywhere, and Mattie must learn quickly how to survive in a city turned frantic wit

Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Publisher: Speak
Keywords: anniversary, speak
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-03-19
List price: $11.99
ISBN-10: 0142414735
ISBN-13: 9780142414736

Laurie Halse Anderson’s award-winning, highly acclaimed, and controversial novel about a teenager who chooses not to speak rather than to give voice to what really happened to her marks ten years in print with this special anniversary edition. Bonus material created for this edition includes a new introduction and afterword from the author, resources, and discussion guide. Will also include a preview of Anderson’s newest book, Wintergirls. The quintessential edition for all fans of this powerfully moving book.

Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Publisher: Speak
Keywords: platinum, speak
Number of Pages: 197
Published: 2006-04-20
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 0142407321
ISBN-13: 9780142407325

Melinda Sordino busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now her old friends won’t talk to her, and people she doesn’t even know hate her from a distance. The safest place to be is alone, inside her own head. But even that’s not safe. Because there’s something she’s trying not to think about, something about the night of the party that, if she let it in, would blow her carefully constructed disguise to smithereens. And then she would have to speak the truth. This extraordinary first novel has captured the imaginations of teenagers and adults across the c

Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Keywords: wintergirls
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-03-19
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 067001110X
ISBN-13: 9780670011100

“Dead girl walking,” the boys say in the halls. “Tell us your secret,” the girls whisper, one toilet to another. I am that girl. I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through. I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame. Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in matchstick bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the skinniest. But what comes after size zero and size double-zero? When Cassie succumbs to the demons within, Lia feels she is being haunted by her friend’s restless spirit. In her most emotionally wrenching, lyrically wri