Laurie Halse Anderson

In 1999, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published her best-known novel to date, Speak. It was a New York Times Bestseller,[8] and was adapted into film in 2004, starring Kristen Stewart as Melinda Sordino.[9] The novel became a finalist for the National Book Award and won Anderson honors for its portrayal of a thirteen-year-old girl who becomes mute after a sexual assault.[10] The paperback version was published in 2001 by Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing. Speak has been translated into 16 languages. In 2018, Anderson admitted that she was raped when she was thirteen years old, and the novel was based on her experience.[11] Anderson later wrote a memoir, Shout, about her life when she was a teenager, including details of her rape and the trauma she faced afterward.[12]  

In 2002, after the publication of Fever 1793, Catalyst was published by Penguin under the Viking imprint.[13] The action takes place in the same high school as Speak and features cameo appearances by some of its characters. The book became a Barnes & Noble Best Teen Book of 2002 and an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults.[14]

In 2005, Anderson published Prom, which appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list in early 2005.[8] The book received three starred reviews, was nominated for several state awards, and received national recognition from the American Library Association (ALA) and the International Reading Association.[15]

Anderson's fourth YA novel, Twisted, was released in the spring of 2007 by Viking. It won awards such as the ALA Best Book for Young Adults 2008, ALA Quick Pick for Young Adults 2008, International Reading Association Top Ten of 2007, and New York Public Library Best Books for the Teen Age, and became a New York Times Bestseller.[16]

Anderson later released Wintergirls in March 2009. The novel tells the story of two girls—one of whom is dead at the beginning—suffering from bulimia and anorexia. Wintergirls received five-star reviews and nominations for state awards, was named an ALA Quick Pick for Young Adults, was a Junior Library Guild Selection,[17] and debuted on the New York Times Best Seller list .[18] Wintergirls has been published in over 15 different countries.

Her most recent YA novel, The Impossible Knife of Memory, was published in 2014.

In 2000, Anderson's Fever 1793, a historical fiction novel set in Philadelphia during the yellow fever epidemic, was published by Simon and Schuster. Fever 1793 received two starred reviews, state and national awards, and was a Publishers Weekly Bestseller.[19]

Anderson's fiction picture book, Thank You, Sarah! The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving was published in 2002. The book received two starred reviews, and was named in the ALA Amelia Bloomer List and the Junior Library Guild Selection.[20]

In 2008, Anderson published another historical fiction novel, Chains, about a teenage Revolutionary War-era slave. The novel, the first in a trilogy dubbed Seeds of America, was awarded the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction.[21]

The second novel in the Seeds of America trilogy, Forge, was released in October 2010, by Simon and Schuster. The book received three starred reviews and became a Junior Library Guild Selection, a Kirkus Best Book for Teens: Historical Novels 2010, The Horn Book Fanfare List Best Book of 2010, and one of the Young Adult Library Services Association's (YALSA) 2011 Best Books for Young Adults.[22]

• Speak (1999) ISBN 9780141310886, OCLC 1019801391
• Catalyst (2002) ISBN 9780756915322, OCLC 989035195
• Prom (2005) ISBN 9781407138596, OCLC 876288551
• Twisted (2007) ISBN 9780142411841, OCLC 1003168063
• Wintergirls (2009) ISBN 9781407171067, OCLC 949992238
• The Impossible Knife of Memory (2014) ISBN 9780670012091, OCLC 949342290
• Speak: the graphic novel, New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2018. ISBN 9780374300289, OCLC 974448720

• Fever 1793 (2000) ISBN 9780739349052, OCLC 229306383
• Seeds of America series, also referred to as "Chains: Seeds of America" series or simply "Chains" series.

1. Chains (2008) ISBN 9781481486781, OCLC 944380422
2. Forge (2010) ISBN 9781416961444, OCLC 950981498
3. Ashes (2016) ISBN 9781416961475, OCLC 972407215

• Ndito Runs (1996) ISBN 9780805032659, OCLC 31816166
• Turkey Pox (1996)
• No Time for Mother's Day (2001)
• The Big Cheese of Third Street (2002)
• Thank You, Sarah! The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving (2002) ISBN 9780689851438, OCLC 61697947
• Independent Dames: What You Never Knew About the Women and Girls of the American Revolution (2008)
• The Hair of Zoe Fleefenbacher Goes to School (2009)
• Vet Volunteers series (Previously published by Pleasant Company under the title Wild at Heart)[25]

1. Fight for Life: Maggie (2000)
2. Homeless: Sunita (2000)
3. Trickster: David (2000) ISBN 9780142410837, OCLC 758680431
4. Manatee Blues: Brenna (2000)
5. Say Good-Bye: Zoe (2001)
6. Storm Rescue: Sunita (2001)
7. Teacher's Pet: Maggie (2001)
8. Trapped: Brenna (2001)
9. Fear of Falling: David (2001)
10. Time to Fly (2002)
11. Masks (2002)
12. End of the Race (2003) ISBN 9780142412282, OCLC 311783479
13. New Beginnings (2012)
14. Acting Out (2012)
15. Helping Hands (2013)
16. Treading Water (2014)
17. Left Behind (2016)

1. Speak: The Graphic Novel, illustrated by Emily Caroll (2019)
2. Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed, illustrated by Leila Del Duca (2020)