Лучшие книги Лори Холс Андерсон

Первый год в старшей школе Мерриуэзер складывается для Мелинды Сордино наихудшим образом. Друзья возненавидели ее за то, что она вызвала полицейских и сорвала вечеринку в конце летних каникул. Теперь Мелинда — изгой. Поэтому она раз и навсегда решает замолчать. Единственное, в чем она находит спасение, — уроки рисования. С их помощью Мелинда пытается осмыслить тот кошмар, который ей пришлось пережить на вечеринке. В конце концов ей придется столкнуться лицом к лицу со своим самым большим страхом и начать говорить правду.

“Dead girl walking,” the boys say in the halls.
“Tell us your secret,” the girls whisper, one toilet to another.
I am that girl.
I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through.
I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame.

Lia and Cassie were best friends, wintergirls frozen in matchstick bodies. But now Cassie is dead. Lia's mother is busy saving other people's lives. Her father is away on business. Her step-mother is clueless. And the voice inside Lia's head keeps telling her to remain in control, stay strong, lose more, weigh less. If she keeps on going this way—thin, thinner, thinnest—maybe she'll disappear altogether.

In her most emotionally wrenching, lyrically written book since the National Book Award finalist Speak, best-selling author Laurie Halse Anderson explores one girl's chilling descent into the all-consuming vortex of anorexia

Перевод: Nikki Zombie "Мертвая идет!" - мальчишки переговариваются в коридорах.
"Расскажи нам свой секрет", - шепчутся девчонки в туалетах.
Я та девочка.
Я и есть то пространство между моими бедрами, через которое просачивается дневной свет.
Я и есть те хрупкие, словно фарфор кости, так ими желанные. Лиа и Кэсси - лучшие подруги, зимние девочки, замороженные в телах как спички, соревнующиеся в смертельном соревновании, чтобы увидеть кто может стать ещё тоньше. Но что же идет за нулевым размером? Теперь Кэсси, ставшая жертвой этих внутренних демонов, мертва. И Лиа начинает чувствовать, что её преследует беспокойный дух её подруги. Мама спасает жизни других людей. Отец занят работой. Мачеха понятия не имеет, что происходит. А голоса все нашептывают Лии держать себя в руках, оставаться сильной и худеть. Если она продолжит и станет самой-самой худой, может ей удастся исчезнуть насовсем?
В наиболее эмоционально-драматической манере, лирически написанная книга Лори Холс Андерсон (уже отмеченная множеством наград за роман "Говори") раскрывает падение Лии в водоворот анорексии и её болезненный путь к выздоровлению.

Принцесса Диана из Темискиры очень ждет своего шестнадцатилетия, ведь именно тогда она по-настоящему станет одной из амазонок. Но в самый разгар праздника через магический барьер, отделяющий остров от внешнего мира, пробиваются лодки с беженцами. Диана, нарушив закон амазонок, пытается переправить чужаков в безопасное место и вдруг обнаруживает, что ее уносит в штормовое море. Так, отрезанная от своего мира, она сама становится беженкой в незнакомой стране.

Девушка оказывается за пределами родной Темискиры в чужом странном мире, который полон опасностей и несправедливости. С новыми друзьями и в новых битвах ей предстоит переосмыслить, что значит быть настоящей амазонкой.

Philadelphia high school who doesn’t care about the prom. It’s pretty much the only good thing that happens there, and everyone plans to make the most of it—especially Ash’s best friend, Natalia, who’s the head of the committee and has prom stars in her eyes. Then the faculty advisor is busted for taking the prom money and Ash finds herself roped into putting together a gala dance. But she has plenty of help—from her large and loving (if exasperating!) family, from Nat’s eccentric grandmother, from the principal, from her fellow classmates. And in making the prom happen, Ash learns some surprising things about making her life happen, too.

It's late summer 1793, and the streets of Philadelphia are abuzz with mosquitoes and rumors of fever. Down near the docks, many have taken ill, and the fatalities are mounting. Now they include Polly, the serving girl at the Cook Coffeehouse. But fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook doesn't get a moment to mourn the passing of her childhood playmate. New customers have overrun her family's coffee shop, located far from the mosquito-infested river, and Mattie's concerns of fever are all but overshadowed by dreams of growing her family's small business into a thriving enterprise. But when the fever begins to strike closer to home, Mattie's struggle to build a new life must give way to a new fight-the fight to stay alive.

From New York Times bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson

High school senior Tyler Miller used to be the kind of guy who faded into the background. But since he got busted for doing graffiti on the school, and spent the summer doing outdoor work to pay for it, he stands out like you wouldn't believe. His new physique attracts the attention of queen bee Bethany Milbury, who just so happens to be his father's boss's daughter, the sister of his biggest enemy, and Tyler's secret crush. And that sets off a string of events and changes that have Tyler questioning his place in school, in his family, and in the world.

"Poignant and gripping." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"Once again, Anderson's taut, confident writing will cause this story to linger long after the books is set down." —SLJ

A New York Times Bestseller
An ALA Best Book for Young Adults


From the Trade Paperback edition.

For the past five years, Hayley Kincaid and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying long in one place as he struggles to escape the demons that have tortured him since his return from Iraq. Now they are back in the town where he grew up so Hayley can attend school. Perhaps, for the first time, Hayley can have a normal life, put aside her own painful memories, even have a relationship with Finn, the hot guy who obviously likes her but is hiding secrets of his own.

Will being back home help Andy’s PTSD, or will his terrible memories drag him to the edge of hell, and drugs push him over? The Impossible Knife of Memory is Laurie Halse Anderson at her finest: compelling, surprising, and impossible to put down.

Resonant and fiercely authentic. This timely, critically acclaimed and award-winning modern classic is now a powerful graphic novel.
'I said no.'
Melinda is an outcast at Merryweather High. Something happened over the summer - something bad - and now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen. So what's the point in speaking at all?
Through her work on an art project, Melinda is finally able to face what really happened that night. But before she can make peace with the ghosts of the past, she has to confront the reality of the present - and stop someone who still wishes to do her harm. Only words can save her. She can't stay silent. Not any more.

A searing poetic memoir and call to action from the bestselling and award-winning author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson!

Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. 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 poetry memoir that is as vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless. In free verse, Anderson shares reflections, rants, and calls to action woven between deeply personal stories from her life that she's never written about before. Searing and soul-searching, this important 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. Shout speaks truth to power in a loud, clear voice-- and once you hear it, it is impossible to ignore.

As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth and Isabel. When Isabel meets Curzon, a slave with ties to the Patriots, he encourages her to spy on her owners, who know details of British plans for invasion. She is reluctant at first, but when the unthinkable happens to Ruth, Isabel realizes her loyalty is available to the bidder who can provide her with freedom.
From acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson comes this compelling, impeccably researched novel that shows the lengths we can go to cast off our chains, both physical and spiritual.

Book Details:

Format: Hardcover Publication Date: 10/21/2008 Pages: 320 Reading Level: Age 10 and Up