Speak

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Summary: Speak review
Review: I liked this book because it taught me what some people go through and how i can help by helping them out by being there friends. It also taught me aboot appreciating my parents a little bit more.

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Summary: My thoughts on Speak
Review: My Thoughs on the books Speak is It was a pretty good bok, It was a good book to read in highschool, becuase it explains some of the things that goes on in our highschool Enviroment. I would recommmend This book to al highschoolers and soon to Be highschoolers So then can think about the stuff thats really going on in Highschool.To me the book was a little to Negative for a postive person like me. :)

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Review: The book speak was a nice book to read. It didn't get boring and the thrills keep going. I believe that everyone should read it. THe book tells of modern day problems. This is what keeps the reader most interested. I would suggest this book to many people.

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Summary: Speak
Review: This book was a fairly good book. I like how the book starts of how Malinda is surviving of being an outcast. Later in the book, it tells on how she was an outcast. I feel that at that point when the reader knows what she did and why she did it, that the book now gets more interesting and the reader wants to find out what will happen with Malinda and her friends. The also tells about life in Highschool of being an outcast. After reading the book I feel that it is terribly hard for kids today to be at school day after day, week after week, being mad fun of and tortured. I would give this book 3 out of 5 stars.

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Summary: Speak
Review: I thought that the book Speak by Laurie Halse was very interesting with a complicated plot and a dark sense of humor. It starts with the end of summer vacation focusing on a girl who spent the last three weeks of summer lying on her couch watching "bad cartoons" because her reputation and popularity was ruined when she called the cops and broke up a high school party. Her name is Melinda Sordino and she starts high school with no hopes and a secret. This book is all about how she survives her high school career. It deals with everything from relationships to skipping school. To find out how Melinda made it through her freshmen year of High School and to find out what her secret was read this book.

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Summary: Speak---Great Story for Teenage Girls
Review: Melinda Sordino is considered to most people in the beginning of the novel, SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson, as an outcast, freak, and a loner. She struggles to fit in high school. She tries to figure out why she's the way she is and she learns a few things about herself and others. She was hated for ruining a party by calling the cops, but they don't know the truth. She tries to show herself through her artwork and starts to confide to her art teacher Mr.Freeman. I enjoyed this novel for having to deal with the book's topic. I highly recommend this book, especially to teenage girls.

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Summary: This is one of the greatest books I ever read
Review: This book was very good. It's about this girl who hides a secret that no one knows about. Not her parents or her ex- best friends. Whom won't talk to her. She is practically hated by the whole school. Melinda was a smart optimistic girl but when the awful thing that caused her to call the cops happened she was never the same. Melinda starts failing all her classes & she barely talks. It's a sad yet awesome story. This book is soooo good.

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Summary: Speak -- 5 Stars!
Review: I first laid eyes on this novel two years ago. Unfortunately, I did not have a chance to get around to reading it until recently. I wish I had read it sooner, but better late than never.

Melinda Sordino, a freshman at Merryweather High--home of the Trojans, Tigers, Wombats, or Hornets (whichever one you prefer), enters the highschool scene friendless, cliqueless.

Melinda knows why they snub her. She made one of the biggest mistakes of her teenage life: calling the cops on the end-of-the-year party. If only they knew why, but they don't. And she can't seem to find her voice to tell them.

All of them hate her--even her closest friend, Rachel. Now Rachel hangs out with all the sheik foreign exchange students, dressing up in absurd attires, and only tossing the occasional glare Melinda's way.

Melinda begins skipping classes and school and her grades begin to drop. She becomes practically mute as she is reminded more and more of IT. That IT goes to her school. Knowing that IT notices her as much as she notices him. Experiencing crude episodes of IT's hubris and cruelty.

Melinda happily tries to avoid IT until something happens that she cannot possibly ignore. IT--more commonly known as Andy Evans--and Rachel begin to date. Melinda tries to convince herself that it is not her business, that it is not her fault if something bad happens. She even tries to tell herself that Rachel deserves it.

Try as she might, Melinda cannot sit back and watch her former best friend suffer the same fate as she. How could she ever forgive herself if Rachel were raped by him, too?

Melinda must find her voice to tell Rachel what really happened at that end-of-the-year party before Rachel falls into Andy's trap.

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Summary: I love this sad but wonderful book!
Review: "My English teacher has no face. She has uncombed stringy hair that droops on her shoulders. The hair is black from her part to her ears then neon orange to the frizzy ends. I can't decide if she pissed off her hairdresser or is morphing into a monarch butterfly. I call her Hairwoman." (from the book)

When high school freshman Melinda Sorino calls the police at an end-of-the-year party, she becomes a social outcast. Depressed and lonely, she hides in the corners of her mind, coming out of her shell only to work on her tree that represents the changes in her life. As the days pass, and the other kids become meaner and meaner, Melinda begins to wonder if life is really worth it. When will she ever speak about what happened at the fateful party?

Funny in a sad way, Speak is a book that will leave you feeling thoughtful about high school and life in general. Its cruel but realistic characters remind us of our pains in everyday life. Melinda acts like the typical teenager depicted in stereotypes but really is her own person inside.

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Summary: Did we go to the same highschool
Review: Ok, obviously I'm an adult reader. This is a fabulous book on a topic that unfortunately is part of reality, and also unfortunately is one women/girls are ashamed to speak up about. Her approach to a sensitive topic and her empowering ending are enough to recommend this book alone.

But the highschool she set it in was so real, I was having flashbacks. We had the same mascot, the same jokes about our mascot, the same enemy school mascots, latin club, the same cliques, the uncomfortable mix of kids who flaunt their family's wealth with kids who are from economically average families, the same lunch room politics, the same weather. But I'm from the midwest, not the east coast. Her lists of lies they tell you on the first day of school fit my school perfectly. She hit straight to the gut of what it is to be in highschool. I'd managed to forget about all that.