Laurie was selected by the American Library Association for the Margaret A. Laurie has been nominated for Sweden’s Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award seven times. Two of her novels, Speak and Chains, were National Book Award finalists, and Chains was short-listed for the prestigious Carnegie medal in the United Kingdom.

Her new book, SHOUT, a memoir-in-verse about surviving sexual assault at the age of thirteen and a manifesta for the #MeToo era, was a TIME Best Book of the Year and Laurie’s eighth New York Times bestselling book.

Combined, her books have sold more than 8 million copies. Find FREE in a Library near you at WorldCat.Laurie Halse Anderson is a New York Times bestselling author whose writing spans young readers, teens, and adults.SHOUT speaks truth to power in a loud, clear voice–and once you hear it, it is impossible to ignore. Praised as “captivating,” “powerful,” and “essential” by critics, this searing and soul-searching memoir is a denouncement of our society’s failures and a love letter to all the people with the courage to say #MeToo and #TimesUp, whether aloud, online, or only in their own hearts. In free verse, Anderson shares reflections, rants, and calls to action woven among deeply personal stories from her life that she’s never written about before. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel Speak was first published twenty years ago, she has written a critically acclaimed poetry memoir that is as vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless. She continued by adding the following: Publisher’s Summaryīestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. When asked how censorship of her books harms people, she answered: The author of SHOUT, Laurie Halse Anderson, participated in a Twitter #BannedBooksWeek chat in 2021. Leander ISD in Texas banned SHOUT in late 2021. Banning this book is shortsighted and small minded. Do you think high school kids don’t know what it’s like to be grouped by a stranger? Do you think any high school kid doesn’t know someone else who might be in an abusive relationship? Keeping children in the dark doesn’t prepare them for the real world.

There’s certainly no benefit to removing this from the library. This book helps equip each and every reader with the tools they need to survive some of the most horrific abuse known to mankind. The book is about a heavy topic – sexual abuse. SHOUT is a non-fiction book, a memoir, about finding your voice when others try to silence it. SHOUT made it on the list of books Texas political activists are calling “obscene” and “pornography” and demanding that they be taken off of school shelves.

Teen & Young Adult Nonficition on Sexual Abuse.

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