Speak

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Summary: Realistic
Review: This book moved me so much. Not because of the subject matter, but Anderson writes so that the reader is transported to Merryweather High where they feel and understand to pain of Melinda Sordino. After reading this book, and I couldn't put it down, I felt as if my friends had betrayed me. As if some guy name Andy Evans had used me too. An easy read, but once with such impact that it will stay with you for days.

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Summary: starts funny ends serious
Review: Anderson's Speak is a book that holds your attention like nothing else. It has every esential element in it, and it still flows despite contrasting feelings. The narrator is an outcast, yet many of her high school expiriances offer humor to the reader. Like when she describes the "fist ten lies they tell you in high school." I couldn't stop laughing at how true that was. I can really relate to many of her funny expiriances.

But as the story continues you see a darker side to her past. You understand why, why things happened, why she is who she is. You don't just know why, you understand why.

A great book. Five stars. It draws you up into it and holds you until you finish the story. I recomend it for high school students and adults.

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Summary: A book worth reading
Review: When Melinda goes through the worst year of school with no friends at all, she isn't the happiest person in the world but is expected to be by her teachers and parents. She has no friends due to the fact that she called the police at a party,why she called the cops is a secret and I'm not telling.
As I read Speak I felt as though i was friends with all of the charactors. We all kind of had the same intrest. Speak is a great book and deserves to be read by people around the world.

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Summary: Triumph over adversity
Review: Melinda is a high school freshman with a secret. A traumatic event at a keg party the summer before she started high school led her to call the police, leaving her an outcast at her new school, and abandoned by all of her friends. This book paints a beautiful picture of Melinda's journey through increasing silence and isolation into embracing life and finding the courage to speak. This journey is illustrated by her experiences with art. As a psychologist I felt this book really rang true in its description of one person's journey of finding resolution and making peace with herself and other people after a traumatic event. The author did a beautiful job of balancing the sense of "craziness" and fear associated with trauma while still presenting Melinda as a character the reader can relate to.

Excellent. Highly recommended, particularly for teens who have gone through tough things and feel alone in their experiences.

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Summary: Touching
Review: This novel is about Melinda, a freshman in high school. No one at her school likes her because during the summer, she had called the cops while at a keg party. She hadn't called the cops because the party was out of hand but because she had been raped by Andy Evans, a senior at her school. Every time she sees him, her ability to speak becomes less and less. Her only form of self-expression is art because even her parents are too busy to notice how mute she has become. This is a good book and I find myself to be proud of Melinda at the end of the story. Take time to read it.

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Summary: Speak
Review: I liked the book because it was interresting. Some books I can't get into and some books I can. This book is mostly about a girl who tells the police something, but I don't want to give it away. I would recommend this book to teens that are in 8th grade and higher. It's a book that could be very hard to get into. I had no trouble but other people might. Also you know what book
is right for you. If I ranked this book from a 1-10 it would be a 8 only because it took me a while to understand. Like it just didn't come out and tell you the plot, you had to read on and on. Some books come out and tell you the date and place. Don't be looking in this book to do that.

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Summary: Read!
Review: From the start of day 1, Melinda was reduced to the disappointment and humiliation of being alone. She had no one to comfort her, no one to help fight her sickening memories and fears. She was isolated in every possible way. At school in classes and during lunch, people would deliberately ignore her, which was all just as well for her because she didn't know how to confront them anyway. At home, it was barely a home to her; her family was not a family, but more like total strangers living in an unfamiliar house communicating through sticky-notes on the fridge. And at all the places in between her house and high school, she was also alone. Her grades dropped rapidly, she barely communicated with people, and her social life was nonexistent. And yet the readers feel her emotions about everything and everyone whether she's annoyed or petrified, lazy or relieved, hopeful or embarrassed.
As I read Speak, I truly enjoyed the way the author captured Melinda's heart-felt feelings in its raw and tender edge. It gave me mixed feelings, like why she didn't tell? I would have told everything cause that's just who I am. Or why she lost all desire to have friends, get passing grades? I wouldn't have given those up, because they give me confidence. But the deepest emotion I felt after closing the book was how she seemed like a realistic heroin. She was from an ordinary High School, and she went through so so much during the school year without a friend or her family, but she was definitely not ordinary! She made it and I wondered if I could tolerate everything she dealt with, no way. I was really inspired.

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Summary: This book was great.
Review: This book was so great. I read it in one night. i couldnt put it down. i also did this book as my summer reading project and i got a 100 on it. i can just understand with what goes on. it was great.

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Summary: I loved Speak! It was a great book.
Review: Speak was a really great book. I read it in about two days. It was the kind of book you have to keep reading until you've finished it. It combined emotions like sadness, happiness, and excitement all together. I think it was a "must read" kind of book.

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Summary: Excellent work
Review: This book is brilliant. I love the way she throws in sarcastic comments. It really keeps the book moving. Such a great ending. Very good work!