An edition of Speak (1999)

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An edition of Speak (1999)

Speak

  • 3.91 ·
  • 89 Ratings
  • 927 Want to read
  • 50 Currently reading
  • 109 Have read

A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.

Publish Date
Publisher
Hampton-Brown
Language
English
Pages
237

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Edition Availability
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2011-05, Paw Prints
in English
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Speak
2009, Speak
in English - 10th anniversary ed.
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Speak
April 20, 2006, Puffin
in English
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Speak
2003, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
in English
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Speak
2003, Speak
in English
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Speak
2001, Puffin Books
in English
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Speak
2001, Hodder Children's Books
Paperback in English
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Speak
2000, Hampton-Brown
in English
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Speak
2000?, Follett Bound
in English
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Speak
1999, Farrar Straus Giroux
Hardback and paperback in English - 1st ed.

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Book Details


Published in

Carmel, Calif

Edition Notes

Michael L. Printz Honor Book, 2000

Series
The exchange

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
[Fic]
Library of Congress
PZ7.A54385 Sp 2000b

The Physical Object

Pagination
237 p.
Number of pages
237

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31813919M
ISBN 10
0736231919
ISBN 13
9780736231916
LCCN
2009278071
OCLC/WorldCat
156946426

Work Description

"Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only her art class offers any solace, and it is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible party: she was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her. Her healing process has just begun when she has another violent encounter with him. But this time Melinda fights back, refuses to be silent, and thereby achieves a measure of vindication.

In Laurie Halse Anderson's powerful novel, an utterly believable heroine with a bitterly ironic voice delivers a blow to the hypocritical world of high school. She speaks for many a disenfranchised teenager while demonstrating the importance of speaking up for oneself.

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