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Speak

Speak( )
Author: Anderson, Laurie Halse
Read by: Siegfried, Mandy
ISBN:978-0-8072-8264-9
Publication Date:Jul 2000
Publisher:Random House Audio Publishing Group
Imprint:Listening Library
Book Format:Audio
List Price:USD $22.00
Book Description:

Read by Mandy Siegfried5 hours 1 minute, 3 cassettes1999 National Book Award FinalistSchool Library Journal Best Books of the YearBooklist Editors' ChoiceMelinda is a friendless outcast at Merryweather High. She busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, and now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. It is through her work on an art...
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Book Details
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):4.46 x 7.09 x 1.16 Inches
Book Weight:0.319 Pounds
Author Biography
Halse Anderson, Laurie (Author)
Laurie Halse Anderson was born in Potsdam, New York on October 23, 1961. She received a B.S.L.L. in Languages and Linguistics from Georgetown University in 1984. Before becoming a full-time author, she worked as a freelance reporter. Her first book, Ndito Runs, was published in 1996. 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. 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.

Anderson has been nominated and won multiple honorary awards for her literary work. 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. Her book Fever 1793 won the American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults selection and the Junior Library Guild selection. 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.

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