Speak

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Summary: A realistic book about young people
Review: As a public school teacher, I see kids like the ones portrayed in Speak on a daily basis. Anderson has captured the attitudes and behaviors of young adults in a realistic fashion. This is a great book. I am planning on using it as a classroom unit soon.

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Summary: A great book
Review: This is a fantastic book that I would recommend to anyone, especially if you are in your first year of high school. It will smack you in the face with a realization of the harsh world of high school cliques. You'll most likely be able to relate to what Melinda says, but even she hides her own feelings from herself. A must-read.

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Summary: abot speak
Review: It is about a girl who goes to a party one summer and something happens,but then when she goes back to school
after that summer everything changes,she loses all her friends. When she finally thinks she made a friend she loses her too.To find out what happend over that summer read the book speak

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Summary: Speak
Review: In the novel, Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda Sordino, a 9th grader at
Merryweather High School, lets us into her dark world of regrets, frustration, and fear. After unintentionally breaking up an end-of-summer party, Melinda's friends ostracize her without even questioning what really happened that night. As Melinda gradually slips into depression, no one seems to notice or care--including her parents. This story carries us along through Melinda's struggles, both internal and external, allowing us to hear her most inner-thoughts.
I really enjoyed this book because it gave a realistic prospective to high school. While keeping us attentive by being comical, it really connected us to Melinda, making us feel her frustration. I would recommend this book to everyone.

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Summary: A Throught-provoking story
Review: It's her first day of high school and Melinda Sordino has become a social outcast. Her friends from middle school either hate her or ignore her, and people she doesn't even know push her around because she called the police during the hottest end-of-the-summer party. She almost becomes totally mute; trying to recede into the background as her life slowly begins to fall apart around her. On top of her failing grades, silence, and social misfortune, she keeps a dark secret buried deep within her mind. A secret so powerful, it slowly began to kill her.

This was overall a good story. I would recommend that all teenagers should read this thought-provoking and intriguing novel with a powerful message for everybody.

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Summary: Speak
Review: The book Speak was an interesting but sometimes boring story of a girl in the ninth grade at Merryweather High School. I thought that some parts of it actually pertained to real life in High School but other things weren't quite accurate in my perspective.

She goes through life with an attitude where she has problems but makes no effort to fix them. She is always depressed and she thinks there is nothing she can do to make her life less stressful and more enjoyable. It was a well-written book but I just didn't have interest in reading about these things.

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Summary: Speak review
Review: Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson
Reviewed by: Alex Rohr

Laurie Halse Anderson's book Speak is not a very good book. I would not recommend it to anyone who doesn't like to read female driven novels. This book was not at all geared towards guys and therefore hard for me to relate too.

The story is about a girl who is an outcast from the very start of her freshman year at high school. She is an outcast as result of something that occurred during the summer right before school started. It is a relatively accurate view of teenage life but it was not the kind of book I enjoy. She is a very unhappy girl who speaks very little. This was depressing because Melinda, the main character, was always sad and alone. If she had sought help for her problem, her life would have been a lot easier.

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Summary: Speak
Review: The novel, Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson is an interesting book about Melinda Sordino, a teenager trying to overcome the challenges she faces during her first year of high school. After facing a traumatic experience during the summer, she is now an outcast. All of her friends have found cliques and nobody wants to invite her to join theirs. Through her witty sarcasm and provoking thoughts, readers learn about her emotional scars and deep wounds that she bears inside. As the year progresses, Melinda works on opening up and facing her feelings through her artwork and other activities that she occupies her time with.
The book is a quick read and enjoyable for teenagers and adults.

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Summary: Speak
Review: Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, is a well-written novel about a teenager's dark, depressed freshman year in high school as an outcast. After a bad ending to an end of summer party, Melinda Sordino is forced to enter high school with all of her friends hating her. She has no one to talk to and express what really happened to her. Throughout the book, with the help of her sarcasm and mockery of life at high school, we see her opinion of her peers and the people around her as she slowly reveals to us the trauma that has deeply wounded her adolescence.
This is an easy book to read, but it is very enjoyable. Laurie Halse Anderson's use of humor and trauma through the eyes of Melinda kept me wanting to read. I recommend this book for both teenagers and adults.

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Summary: Speak
Review: Laurie Halse Anderson's novel, Speak, has intrigued the minds of many students across the nation. The book has only been out for a year or two and already, schools are adopting it as a class read. This acceptance is due to an easy-to-read layout, and the identification from students to the main character, Melinda.

Throughout the story, we follow Mel as she is struggling with her circumstances as a freshman in high school. As the reader becomes more connected to the narrator, she starts to tell us more and more of what happened that summer (when she was happy and had good friends) that turned her into a social outcast. Although the book has a depressing nature, Melinda's sarcasm may even bring about a laugh from the reader.

Speak is a well-written novel which is good for most anyone high school and up to read due to the mature environment. I would suggest this book to anyone who has had struggles at any point in life, and especially one who has had struggles in high school.