![]() In 2008, Chains was selected for the National Book Award Finalist and in 2009 was awarded for its Historical Fiction the Scott O'Dell Award. Her book Fever 1793 won the American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults selection and the Junior Library Guild selection. For the masterpiece Speak, Anderson won the Printz Honor Book Award, a National Book Award nomination, Golden Kite award, the Edgar Allan Poe Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Anderson has been nominated and won multiple honorary awards for her literary work. Laurie Halse Anderson has received both the Margaret Edwards Award and the ALAN Award for her contributions to young. ![]() ![]() She also created the Wild at Heart series, which was originally published by American Girl but is now called the Vet Volunteers series and is published by Penguin Books for Young Readers. ![]() She has written numerous books for children including Turkey Pox, No Time for Mother's Day, Fever 1793, Speak, Catalyst, Independent Dames: What You Never Knew about the Women and Girls of the American Revolution, Chains and The Impossible Knife of Memory. Her first book, Ndito Runs, was published in 1996. Before becoming a full-time author, she worked as a freelance reporter. in Languages and Linguistics from Georgetown University in 1984. Laurie Halse Anderson was born in Potsdam, New York on October 23, 1961. ![]()
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