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Speak
by: Laurie Halse Anderson

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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780142407325
ISBN: 0142407321
Label: Puffin
Manufacturer: Puffin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: April 20, 2006
Publisher: Puffin
Reading Level: Young Adult
Sales Rank: 3715
Studio: Puffin

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Product Description:
Melinda Sordino busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now her old friends won't talk to her, and people she doesn't even know hate her from a distance. The safest place to be is alone, inside her own head. But even that's not safe. Because there's something she's trying not to think about, something about the night of the party that, if she let it in, would blow her carefully constructed disguise to smithereens. And then she would have to speak the truth. This extraordinary first novel has captured the imaginations of teenagers and adults across the country.

Awards for Speak

A 2000 Printz Honor Book
A 1999 National Book Award Finalist
An Edgar Allan Poe Award Finalist
A 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
Winner of the SCBWI Golden Kite Award
An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
An ALA Quick Pick
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A Booklist Top Ten First Novel of 1999
A BCCB Blue Ribbon Book
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
A Horn Book Fanfare Title

Amazon.com Review:
Since the beginning of the school year, high school freshman Melinda has found that it's been getting harder and harder for her to speak out loud: 'My throat is always sore, my lips raw.... Every time I try to talk to my parents or a teacher, I sputter or freeze.... It's like I have some kind of spastic laryngitis.' What could have caused Melinda to suddenly fall mute? Could it be due to the fact that no one at school is speaking to her because she called the cops and got everyone busted at the seniors' big end-of-summer party? Or maybe it's because her parents' only form of communication is Post-It notes written on their way out the door to their nine-to-whenever jobs. While Melinda is bothered by these things, deep down she knows the real reason why she's been struck mute...

Laurie Halse Anderson's first novel is a stunning and sympathetic tribute to the teenage outcast. The triumphant ending, in which Melinda finds her voice, is cause for cheering (while many readers might also shed a tear or two). After reading Speak, it will be hard for any teen to look at the class scapegoat again without a measure of compassion and understanding for that person--who may be screaming beneath the silence. (Ages 13 and older) --Jennifer Hubert

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- unrealistic but still okay 3 1/2 stars SPOILERS
SPOILERS BELOW

this book has over 1000 reviews so i think this space can best be utilized by me telling you what i didn't like about the book and why i gave it 3 1/2 stars instead of 5.

it's a great book, i loved the voice of melinda, she was very funny and witty and sounded like she would have been a fun girl to hang out with. it sucked what happened to her, she got raped at a party and called the cops and then everyone freaked on her and decided to hate her for most of her freshman year.

this is where i start to say UNREALISTIC!!!
1- the rapist guy. he was basically portrayed as a psychopath who preyed on freshmen girls and who repeatedly taunted melinda for his own cruel and sick enjoyment. i realize the story is told from melinda's 1st person POV but it's up to the author to find a way around this writing device and still try to present her characters as 3 dimensional ... Read More

Rating:

- Open this book, open your mind, open your mouth
Speak is another book that I dove into knowing virtually nothing about it from the start. I knew it was in the "adolescent lit" category and that the narrator spent some time doing some artwork trying to express herself. I was not at all ready for the deeply emotional and heart wrenching story of the novel. This isn't by any means a piece of adolescent "fluff" like the flood of teen books flooding the market in recent years. Rather it is an intense exploration of a teenager struggling with alienation, self-worth, honesty and change. It's about the struggle she goes through in trying to find her voice in the midst of emotional turmoil. With very few exceptions, the main character, Melinda, has gone mute. She speaks only when silence is absolutely unavoidable and even then, her words don't speak her true thoughts. As the title implies, she spends the novel trying to find a way to speak her mind, to find her voice. This ... Read More

Rating:

- Great Author! Great Book! I would totally recommend reading it!!!
Speak
By: Laura Halse Anderson

Speak is a clever and an ironic title for a story in which the main character chooses not to speak a whole lot. This book is written in first person. This is a great book, and I would recommend it to anyone. Melinda Sordino is a teenage girl in her first year of high school. Instead of being open-minded, she calls herself "the outcast," and one thing she did the summer before her freshman year may be something that she could regret. What she did that summer totally affects her year in high school...she does not have many friend at the beginning.
I loved this book. It is totally worth reading.

Rating:

- Best book to descibe girls
This is one of the best books to describe females. Everyone knows that girls are the most confusing objects in this world. Actually, I don't think there is a word to describe female, but after reading this book, you can easily think of many words to describe us. It is truly the best book I have ever read!

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