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Acting Out by Laurie Halse Anderson
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Vet Volunteers Ser.
An all-new book in acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson's series for younger readers Zoe is back in Ambler after living with her mom in Los Angeles, and she doesn't know what to feel about it. It's fun to be back with the Vet Volunteers, but Zoe misses her mom, who is filming a movie in Canada. Meanwh ...Show more
Ashes ( Seeds of America Trilogy ) by Laurie Halse Anderson
Category: Middle Readers | Series: Seeds of America Trilogy
Return to the American Revolution in this blistering conclusion to the trilogy that began with the bestselling National Book Award Finalist Chains and continued with Forge, which The New York Times called a return not only to the colonial era but to historical accuracy. As the Revolutionary War rages on ...Show more
Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson
Category: Children's
Gritty and hard hitting, this is thoughtful teen fiction at its finest. Kate Malone: popular straight A student, long-distance runner, pillar of strength to her single-parent dad. She thinks she can she can handle anything. Until it all goes wrong. Kate splits up with her boyfriend and gets rejected fro ...Show more
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
Category: Children's
Isabel and her sister Ruth are slaves, sold from one owner to the next, they arrive in New York just as the Americans are fighting for their independence, and the English are struggling to stay in control. Soon Isabel too is struggling. Struggling to keep herself and her sister safe in a world in which ...Show more
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
Category: Children's Fiction
If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? 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 ...Show more
Chains (#1) by Laurie Halse Anderson
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Seeds of America
Set in 1776, against the backdrop of the American struggle for independence, this powerful novel is also an incredible adventure about one girl's struggle for freedom in a society in which she is considered someone else's property.
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Category: Fiction
A gripping historical novel about the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, USA, from the bestselling author of Speak. Life wasn't that different in 1793. 14-year-old Mattie hates getting out of bed in the morning and is fed up with her mum nagging her. She's sure she can look after herself - a ...Show more
Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Category: Young Adult Fiction
An epidemic of fever sweeps through the streets of 1793 Philadelphia in this novel from Laurie Halse Anderson where "the plot rages like the epidemic itself" ("The New York Times Book Review"). During the summer of 1793, Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with her widowed mother and grandfat ...Show more
Forge (Chains #2) by Laurie Halse Anderson
Category: Children's
Isabel and Curzon have escaped New York and are facing a life on the run. Isabel wants to find her sister, and Curzon can't see how to help her. When they find themselves separated, their journeys become harder and Curzon joins the American army, fighting for independence against the British. Neither ha ...Show more
Guys Read: Heroes and Villains by Jon Scieszka; Jack Gantos; Lemony Snicket; Christopher Healy; Sharon Creech; Cathy Camper; Laurie Halse Anderson; Ingrid Law; Deborah Hopkinson; Pam Muñoz Ryan; Eugene Yelchin
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Guys Read Ser.
Heroes & Villains, the seventh volume in Jon Scieszka's Guys Read Library of Great Reading, is chock-full of adventure featuring an array of characters--with and without capes. Featuring ten all-new, original stories that run the gamut from fantasy to contemporary adventure to nonfiction, and featu ...Show more
Helping Hands by Laurie Halse Anderson
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Vet Volunteers Ser.
Jules and Josh are so excited when their parents hire ponies to attract customers to their sidewalk sale. But the Vet Volunteers notice that the ponies don't seem to be very healthy, and after an examination, they learn that the handler, Gus, has been mistreating them. Can the Vet Volunteers help the po ...Show more