Speak

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Summary: Speak
Review: This book was amazing! I didnt want to put it down. You get so involved in the character and you almost want to cry out to her. A definite "must read".

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Summary: My Chance to Speak
Review: The novel Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, is a wonderful novel for all ages. It is about Melinda Sordino, a freshman in high school and tells us her story as she struggles through life's complications. Melinda has been blamed by her classmates for calling the police on a party last summer. Because of this, all of Melinda's friends have left her in the dust. As the story unfolds, the reader sees Melinda's reasons for her actions. She becomes silent. She becomes an outcast. But soon, she will have her chance to speak. I recommend this book to those seeking a good read. I enjoyed this novel greatly, and I hope the next reader will too.

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Summary: Speak is for all ages
Review: Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, is a book about a girl who is trying to get through her first year of high school and having to overcome many problems. The summer before her freshman year, Melinda called the cops on a party. Because of this, all of her friends left her for different cliques and she is now an outcast. Throughout the story we learn of Melinda's terrifying reason for this phone call.
I liked this book because it is a darkly humorous novel about a girl finding herself and getting through the hard times with the help of a teacher who shows her that she has a lot to say. I suggest speak to people of all ages.

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Summary: Speak
Review: Title: Speak
Author: Laurie Anderson

Title: Speak
Author: Laurie Anderson

Speak, written by Laurie Anderson, is written through the eyes of the sarcastic, but witty main character Melinda Sordino. One event that summer ruined her social status from popular to "complete and total loser, not quite sane." This one event was caused by IT; "A senior. A gorgeous cover-model guy, every inch a tanned muscle, and straight white teeth." Because of IT, as Melinda calls him Greek God and Andy Beast, Melinda slowly recoils from the outside world, and becomes spellbound within the depths of her own mind. She refuses to speak, and eventually becoming mute. This one event makes her become mute. Follow the journey of Melinda through her ideals behind the sickening sweet reality of high school, and overcoming the one event that literally destroyed her life.

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Summary: Speak
Review: This is a fairly well written book. For anyone who wants to remember their high school years this is a great book for you. The main characters sense of humor is apparent with constant sarcasm being expressed at the other "clans".

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Summary: Speak
Review: Speak is a good book. There is excitement on almost every page. Every page is filled with a new complication every time the main character, Melinda Sordino, turns the corner. Sometimes the book seems a little boring but the author, Laurie Anderson, makes her writing flow so that the reader never gets bored. This book is well written and states a universal theme. It tells of struggle and tells of fighting for what you believe in. I found the writing style to be rather interesting and unique. It was almost diary format, with random thoughts and tangents thrown in along with the story. I recommend that anybody should read it.

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Summary: This book was amazing
Review: I have been out of high school for 16 years, but this book brought me right back. Never have I read a book that so eloquently captured how it feels to be a high school student. I did a lot of crying as I read about Melinda's struggles and remembered my own struggles at that age.

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Summary: Please Speak
Review: I loved this book so much that I wrote to the author and told her....I adored Laurie Halse Anderson's writing style and her character SO much. I lent this book to my friend, Vanessa and she loved it, too. It made us both cry! Tears of sadness and of joy....

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Summary: outsider
Review: I think that "speak" really shows how it feels like beeing an
outsider at school. I have been it too,and it felt just like
it feels for melinda in the book..everything is grey,depression
ed,nervous and everyday at school is a fight.But I don`t like
the way she talk about the school,the classmates,and other people.they are just "jerks" "ugly" "boring" "stuped". I think
that she`s not perfekt either,so she can stop complain on people
all the time!

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Summary: Excellent from cover to cover.
Review: When I first borrowed this book from the library,I wasn't quite sure what to expect. I had made a bet where I pick 3 books according to their covers and read them within a month.Once I read the first page I was captured. Everything I read I could relate to. I mean I felt as if my own story were being told back to me.Laurie Halse Anderson has done a great job of telling how it is being isolated with a secret at that vunerable age entering high school. Even her old friend Racheal is having a hard time trying to figure out the person she will become. Tramitized by what happened to her,and shunned by everyone at school,Melinda starts doing less talking. As things get worse (or perhaps different), she withdraws more til she hardly ever speaks.Many things happen that help her to become more of a whole person;and as she copes and deals with it all she becomes somewhat better. In the end she faces her fears and finds the courage to finally 'speak'.

I'm sure my review has not really done respect to this awesome book, but I would like to say that in that month I read SPEAK twice and I bought a copy for myself. I think that anyone who has the opportunity to, should read this book. It is phenominal!!