Laurie Halse Anderson
1) Speak
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A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
2) Fever, 1793
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In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
3) Twisted
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After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts.
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Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel Speak was first published twenty years ago, she has written a poetry memoir that is as vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless. In free verse, Anderson shares reflections, rants, and...
5) Wintergirls
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Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.
7) Prom
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Eighteen-year-old Ash wants nothing to do with senior prom, but when disaster strikes and her desperate friend, Nat, needs her help to get it back on track, Ash's involvement transforms her life.
8) Chains
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[2008]
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After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.
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