Mother of four, Laurie lives in Northern New York, where she likes to watch the snow fall as she writes.Laurie Halse Anderson's riveting trilogy comes to a gripping conclusion that's as hopeful and frightening as the end of the Revolutionary War must have been to those who lived through it. Chains also received the 2009 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction, and Laurie was chosen for the 2009 Margaret A Edwards Award. Two of her books, Speak and Chains, were National Book Award finalists. Her work has earned numerous ALA and state awards. Laurie Halse Anderson is a New York Times bestselling author known for tackling tough subjects with humor and sensitivity. Heroism and heartbreak pave their path, but Isabel and Curzon won’t stop until they reach Ruth, and then freedom, in this grand finale to the acclaimed Seeds of America trilogy from Laurie Halse Anderson. With purpose and faith, Isabel and Curzon march on, fiercely determined to find Isabel’s little sister Ruth, who is enslaved in a Southern state-where bounty hunters are thick as flies. Before long they are reported as runaways, and the awful Bellingham is determined to track them down.
Return to the American Revolution in Ashes, the blistering conclusion to the trilogy that began with the bestselling National Book Award Finalist Chains and continued with Forge, which The New York Times called “a return not only to the colonial era but to historical accuracy.”Īs the Revolutionary War rages on, Isabel and Curzon have narrowly escaped Valley Forge-but their relief is short-lived.
Parnassus Books is thrilled to welcome Laurie Halse Anderson to discuss and sign Ashes.
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