Tag: Laurie Halse Anderson
Books Banned at Raymond School Library in Wisconsin
Three books were removed from the Raymond School Library (WI): All American Boys by Jason Reymonds, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Get them back on the shelves by voting this spring in the school board elections.
Texas’s Book Censorship Hysteria: An interview with Ashley Hope Pérez
Ashley Hope Pérez responds to the recent censorship of her award-winning book Out of Darkness in Lake Travis ISD and Leander ISD, Texas.
Intellectual Freedom News 5/17/2019
Laurie Halse Anderson Joins Colson Whitehead at the FTRF’s 50th Anniversary Celebration; First amendment Vitals: Taking Gen Z’s pulse on Free Expression and Inclusion; Intellectual freedom for the incarcerated
Laurie Halse Anderson and the Enduring Legacy of Speak
Today is Laurie Halse Anderson’s 57th birthday. Speak, her debut, often-censored, and enduring novel still sits with me, almost 20 years later.