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Speak (Hardback)
$15.55 - Save $2.44 (13%) - RRP $17.99 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for SpeakAfter Melinda goes through a traumatic and violent incident at a summer party, she calls the cops and becomes a social outcast. Her freshman year is a disaster. As time passes, she stops talking--except through her paintings in art class. Her healing process has just begun when her perpetrator attacks again. Only this time, she doesn't keep silent.
Full description- Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
- Published: 30 September 1999
- Format: Hardback 198 pages
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- Categories: Fiction | General | School Stories | Social Issues
- ISBN 13: 9780374371524 ISBN 10: 0374371520
- Sales rank: 219,020
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Full description for Speak
The first ten lies they tell you in high school "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 that 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 this powerful novel, an utterly believeable 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. "Speak" is a 1999 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature.
