craft review by Anne-Marie Strohman Writing, at its core, is about choosing the right words. Those choices connect to a character in a first-person narrative. In Laurie Halse Anderson’s Ashes, the final book in her Seeds of America trilogy, Isabel Gardener tells the story in a voice that is hers and only hers. Readers first met … Continue reading Ashes by Laurie Halse Anderson: Creating Voice through Vocabulary