Laurie Halse Anderson ~ November 10

Although award winning and awe-inspiring author, Laurie Halse Anserson will be visiting schools  and will not be doing a signing at Hicklebee's, we're happy to have books signed for you.

She's on tour for Forge, sequel to Chains which is the first in a trilogy set in the Revolutionary War time period. Chains was a National Book Award finalist, received the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction, the ALA Best Book for Young Adults award, and continues to be a Hicklebee's favorite.

In Forge, the perspective shifts from Isabel to Curzon and we learn what it takes for runaway slaves to forge their own paths in the midst of the chaos of the American Revolution.

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Forge (Hardcover)

By Laurie Halse Anderson

$16.99

ISBN-13: 9781416961444
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Published: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 10/2010

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In the desperate circumstances of the Valley Forge winter, Curzon the boy becomes Curzon the young man. In addition to the hardships of soldiering, he lives with the fear of being discovered as an escaped slave passing for free. Isabel is also at Valley Forge—against her will. She and Curzon have to sort out the tangled threads of their friendship while figuring out what stands between the two of them and true freedom.

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Chains (Hardcover)

By Laurie Halse Anderson

$16.99

ISBN-13: 9781416905851
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Published: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 10/2008

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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 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.

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Fever 1793 (Paperback)

By Laurie Halse Anderson

$6.99

ISBN-13: 9780689848919
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Published: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 3/2002

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August 1793. Fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook is ambitious, adventurous, and sick to death of listening to her mother. Mattie has plans of her own. She wants to turn the Cook Coffeehouse into the finest business in Philadelphia, the capital of the new United States. But the waterfront is abuzz with reports of disease. “Fever” spreads from the docks and creeps toward Mattie’s home, threatening everything she holds dear. As the cemeteries fill with fever victims, fear turns to panic, and thousands flee the city. Then tragedy strikes the coffeehouse, and Mattie is trapped in a living nightmare. Suddenly, her struggle to build a better life must give way to something even more important – the fight to stay alive.

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Speak: 10th Anniversary Edition (Paperback)

By Laurie Halse Anderson

$11.99

ISBN-13: 9780142414736
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Published: Speak, 3/2009

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Melinda Sordino busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now her old friends won’t talk to her, and people she doesn’t even know hate her from a distance. The safest place to be is alone, inside her own head. But even that’s not safe. Because there’s something she’s trying not to think about, something about the night of the party that, if she let it in, would blow her carefully constructed disguise to smithereens. And then she would have to speak the truth. This extraordinary first novel has captured the imaginations of teenagers and adults across the country.

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