“Back to school, back to school, to prove to Dad that I’m not a fool. I got my lunch packed up, my boots tied tight; I hope I don’t get in a fight. Ohhhh, back to school, back to school…” Ah, fall. That wonderful season that brings with it cooler weather, changing leaf colors and, [...]
Category Archive — laurie halse anderson
Teenage Angst
When I was growing up, my favorite books contained stories about mischievous, intelligent and clever girls, like Anne Shirley from Anne of Green Gables or Jo March from Little Women. I read every Babysitters Club book I could get my hands on and regularly lost myself in books by Judy Blume or Paula Danzinger. These [...]
The Collision of Technology and Literature
Everywhere we turn these days, it seems as if technology is changing the way we experience literature. Amazon’s Kindle is growing in popularity, more people get their news from the web than from print newspapers (with the result of print newspapers dying out faster than you can say “RSS feed”), and authors are interacting with [...]
