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Summary: Must be a good book!
Review: I did not read this book, my 14 year old daughter did. And it's very difficult to get her to read anything longer than a magazine article. She loved reading it, would actually turn off the TV to read. Now she wants to read more books by this author.
I have tried and tried to get her interested in reading for pleasure. This book sure kick started her! Hoooray!!!
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Summary: Coming of Age
Review: This book is great for all teenager girls, it's a definate coming of age story that all girls should read. I learned a lot from this book and highly recomend it to girls age 13 or over.
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Summary: Very good book!
Review: You wonder what happened, and you sort of already know...Just a tiny hint in the book along the way by the characters actions, but it keeps you reading. The art teacher is a great person...the book really makes you know what to do, lets you know that it can happen to anyone, and that sometimes life will hit you on the head sometimes, but after a while it will heal and you can get over it. A great read!
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Summary: love this book!
Review: I really liked this. I thought it was witty and real, and it has entertained me on many a day. It is a fairly realistic depiction of teenage life and I like the way that it is written.
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Summary: Don't ever forget to Speak
Review: I was a little skeptical when I picked this book up from the library, but I gave it a shot and am glad I did. Speak is about a girl who is shunned during the summer before her freshmen year for calling the cops at a party. Her friends have left her in the world inside her head. No one but her and The Beast know what really happened that night. She slowly finds her voice again when one of her ex friends begins to date The Beast. Speaking up on the walls of the bathroom stall eventually brings out the words of other Beast victims. This is a great book about SPEAKing up when you need to be heard.
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Summary: One of the best books ever written for teens
Review: Speak, is an amazingly funny poignant story of Melinda. Melinda used to have the perfect life. But, one night everything changed whenever Melinda went to a party. Something horrible happened to her. Something that she can't speak about. This book is filled with amazingly realistic characters. The teachers are practically the same ones that I have now, and it's great to realize, that things can happen that you can't control, but with courage, and friendship, things can and will start to get better.
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Summary: Gripping
Review: This book was a stunning display of writing, from beginning to end. Melinda is a ninth grader who went to a party the summer before high school, got drunk, and was raped. This unspeakable atrocity causes her to virtually quit speaking. She lives within her own mind. Her ex-friends ignore her and her new friend dumps her after deciding Melinda is holding her back. Finally, though, she confronts the night she lost her voice and the person who scared her into silence and gains the attention of the school and . Melinda was a character that everyone could identify with. Her dry observations could be funny, saddening, and scary. Her relationship with her parents made me appreciate my own. Most of all, she made look at all the people I've ignored for whatever reason (unpopular, ugly, weird) and realize that they are people too. I even made a few friends this way. I definitely recommend this book to people of all ages.
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Summary: A poignant portrayal of life on the outside.
Review: Laurie Halse Andersen spins an enchanting web of words from the very first page of this novel. Through Melinda's eyes, she explores the ins and outs, the ups and downs, and the kindness and cruelty of high school life. The chapter-like divisions are sometimes straightforward and achingly blunt, sometimes abstract and closer to poetic prose, but always engaging and intriguing. Melinda tells her story through a series of incidents and scenes, snapshots in time that combine to create the collage that is her past, present, and future. Andersen has managed to capture the spirit of high school, from cliques and fickle friends to teachers both cruel and inspiring, and even describes the most accurate parent/teen relationship I have seen in a young adult novel for a long time. "Speak" is funny, honest, cynical, perceptive, and sure to ring true with readers. Immerse yourself in Melinda's world, so eerily similar to our own, as soon as you can!
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Summary: speak
Review: Speak goes into the mind of a girl who has this deep dark secret throughout the book. Its suspensful throughot the book and keeps you guessing until the end. I thought it was a great book and that it should be read by 11 years old (at the YOUNGEST) till whenever! A must [read!!!]
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Summary: Excellent Read
Review: Anderson has eloquently captured the trials and tribulations of being accepted by peers in high school through Melinda, an incoming freshman. However, Melinda is fast becoming an outcast, as she is becoming known as the girl that called to cops at a big party and she is becoming more and more quiet. In fact, she's having a hard time talking at all. And she feels as if she did speak the truth about the reason she called the cops, no one would want to listen anyway! Will Melinda find her voice and confront the truth? Read Speak, "the tough, tender, and darkly funny story of a teenage outcast" (back cover) and find out!
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