Laurie Halse Anderson
Laurie Halse Anderson
Laurie Halse Anderson is an American writer best known for children's and young adult novels. She received the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2009 for her contribution to young adult literature...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth23 October 1961
CountryUnited States of America
children father book
Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them
children people transition
We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not fair. Bad things happen to good people.
house splits shame
It's a shame we can't just admit that we failed family living, sell the house, split up the money, and get on with our lives.
say-anything awful trouble
I don't say anything and I feel awful. I tell somebody and I feel worse. I'm having trouble finding a middle ground.
cutting class today
CONJUGATE THIS: I cut class, you cut class, he, she, it cuts class. We cut class, they cut class. We all cut class. I cannot say this in Spanish because I did not go to Spanish today. Gracias a dios. Hasta luego.
life departed grandfather
She looks like a china doll, observed Grandfather as we departed. I will break just as easily, I muttered.
breathe breaths wintergirls
I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life.
smell gossip devil
Gossip is the foul smell from the Devil's backside.
book messages reader
Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book.
book helping funny-book
I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life.
sex children struggle
We've fallen down on our responsibility to our children by somehow creating this world where they're surrounded by images of sexuality; and yet, we as adults struggle to talk to kids honestly about sex, the rules of dignity and consent.
eye different because-i-can
They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs.
basketball soccer kids
I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers while my kids had basketball practice, the front seat of the car when they were at soccer. In airports. On trains. In the break room when I was supposed to be wolfing down dinner. In the back of classrooms when I was supposed to be paying attention.
book writing world
If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's why I was put on the planet.