Tag Archives: Laurie Halse Anderson

SPEAKing up

By Rachel | Published: 20 September 2010

Ah, September. The month when the kiddos go back to school, the air starts cooling, and the leaves begin their beautiful transformation. Also, the month when ignorant book banners come crawling out of the woodwork, trying to force their beliefs on everyone else. Twitter and the Blogoverse blew up yesterday when Wesley Scroggins, an Associate [...]

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What are the responsibilities of a YA author?

By Rachel | Published: 22 September 2009

Continuing our discussion of banned books (and gearing up for Banned Book Week), check out this awesome post by Laurie Halse Anderson about schools trying to ban her books. The excerpts from her readers’ letters are especially powerful. So, I had started writing a different post today (which will now be posted tomorrow), but after [...]

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