On writing her newest book, Anderson said, 'When I started Shoutit was just my rage: Why can't we talk about these things? Watching these brave people speak up as part of #MeToo just let me take the lid off, and that felt good.

To be published in March of 2019, Shout is part memoir, with Anderson telling her own story of being raped at age thirteen, and also sharing the stories that readers have told her over the course of the 20 years since Speak was published. And, reviewing now meant that I could also share this news that was revealed this week: Laurie Halse Anderson has written the non-fiction book, Shout. For me, the story of freshman Melinda and how she copes with being raped at a party by a popular senior, particularly through art, was even more powerful in this format. Of course, I am very glad I finally read it. Youngsters will respond to her pain and the unfairness of her situation, and they will get a sense of the incredible.

Isabel is courageous and bright, and devoted to her little sister. And Speak: The Graphic Novel sat on my desk for months before I was able to read it, despite my appreciation for the work of Emily Carroll, who wrote and illustrated the creepy graphic novel Through the Woods and illustrated the superb graphic novel Baba Yaga's Assistant by Marika McCool. Parents say ( 5 ): Kids say ( 17 ): Laurie Halse Anderson's brutally realistic novel will move and educate readers about slavery in late 18th century New York. I'm not proud of it, but I often shy away from books on difficult topics. It was assigned reading for my older children when they were in high school and was the driving reason why I read it. Laurie Halse Anderson, pictured in 1979, broke barriers with a 1999 novel about a teen’s sexual assault. Controversial, Speak is banned a often as it is part of high school curriculum. In 1999 Laurie Halse Anderson published the groundbreaking young adult novel about rape, Speak.

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