Writing with a very real sense of emotion and passion, she has built a career off of writing in a realistic and highly vivid manner, allowing her work to come alive off of the page for the reader. Never shying away from more difficult subject matter either, she is able to balance more serious issues alongside lighter more entertaining material, keeping the two in equilibrium, allowing them to both play off of each other. Creating a legacy that would be the envy of many an aspiring writer, she writes about subjects that are close to her and her heart, putting them forwards in as straightforwards a manner as possible. With readers from all across the world becoming engaged in her work, there is a sense of universality to her material quite unlike any other, as her audience stretches far and wide, allowing her material to resonate with readers regardless of their background.

Writing in a style that is both instantly accessible to her young readers, allowing them to relate to the material, she really knows how to create a connection with her work, giving it a sense of immediacy that instantly connects. Known for her wit and ever engaging style of prose, the American writer Laurie Halse Anderson is an author of children’s novels, as well as writing historical fiction and Young Adult literature, writing in a style that is both compelling and engrossing in equal measure, creating characters that draw her readers in, allowing them to essentially become a part of the narrative, immersing themselves in her words and worlds.

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