Award-winning author Laurie Halse Anderson writes for children and teenagers because she cares about them, their future and their safety. The critically-acclaimed children's and young-adult author ...

In the book Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda Sordino is forced into the worst year of her life. Her best friend, Rachel Bruin, has turned against her with all other of Melinda's fellow ...

To illustrate his point, he began reading a passage from Laurie Halse Anderson’s “Speak,” an award-winning 1999 young adult novel that explores a survivor’s sense of trauma and guilt after ...