speak

__Speak__ by Laurie Halse Anderson ISBN: 0374371520 c1999 198 pages R.L.-4.5 Points-7

Good sections to read aloud: p. 22 (I need a new friend...) pp. 27-28 (about the party) p. 50 (discovering the closet) p. 86 (encounter with “IT”)

Summary: This book is narrated by Melinda Sordino, who is a freshman in high school with no one to speak to. After busting up a party she was at during the summer, no one has spoken to her. What she really wants is someone to talk to so she can tell them why she had to call the cops. No one gives her that opportunity. She spends her entire freshman year of high school living in fear...fear that IT will bother her again...fear that she is going crazy...fear that she won’t ever be able to let anyone know the real truth.

YA fiction--high school, emotional problems, rape 2001-2002 Iowa Teen Award Book

©Jennifer Lang - WDMS - 2001