UPDATE at 2:25 p.m. Friday, April 4: 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals freezes order requiring Colorado school district to put 19 books back ... “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson “Identical ...

Books removed from school library shelves include “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson, “Thirteen Reasons Why” by Jay Asher, “Forever…” by Judy Blume, “Looking for Alaska” by John ...

It has appeared among the American Library Association’s 10 most challenged books. Speak, a 1999 young adult novel by Laurie Halse Anderson is about a high school student who stops speaking ...

3. “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson Trigger warning: This book discusses sexual assault. “Speak” tells the story of the main character, Melinda Sordino, and her freshman year of high school. After ...

Hertzel grew up in Duluth, earned an MFA from Queens University in Charlotte, N.C., has written two books, and served as the autobiography chairman of the National Book Critics Circle board of ...