Archive for 'Laurie Halse Anderson'
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
My Rating: 5 stars Warning: Rated PG-13 This book is absolutely amazing. Anderson tells an emotional story of a girl named Lia who is trapped in the eating disorder anorexia. All she can think about is food. How much she’s going to eat. How many calories? How much she weighs. All she cares about is [...]
Posted: November 11th, 2009 under Laurie Halse Anderson.
Tags: Laurie Halse Anderson, review, teen, Wintergirls
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Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
My Rating: 5 stars Warning: Rated PG-13 Speak is amazing. As soon as I started reading it I was captivated. This book is about Melinda Sordino, who called 911 at a high school end of the summer bonfire party only a few weeks before she started her freshman year. No one knows specifically why Melinda [...]
Posted: November 8th, 2009 under Laurie Halse Anderson.
Tags: Laurie Halse Anderson, review, Speak, teen
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Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
My Rating: 4 stars Warning: Rated PG-13 Twisted is another really good book by Laurie Halse Anderson. In the book, she tells the story of Tyler Miller, the boy who was never noticed. But before his junior year in high school ended, he vandalized the school and got in big trouble. The community service he [...]
Posted: November 3rd, 2009 under Laurie Halse Anderson.
Tags: Laurie Halse Anderson, review, teen, Twisted
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