Speak

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Summary: Words Of Emotion
Review: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is one of those books that comes along once in a great while. It is a novel that will touch the hearts of many young teenage outkasts, who have yet to find their place in high school. We meet Melinda, and are taken away into her depressed and sedated world. We wonder why this young freshman is the way she is, why she feels so alone, why she has a horrible outlook on life, and why she never speaks. The novel symbolizes the typical teenage life, being exact on every topic and opinion that is addresses. Laurie Halse Anderson is a phenomenol writer, one who knows her audience and strikes home with them. She writes words of emotion, and makes us feel weak at heart, which is the message the book is trying to deliever.

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Summary: Speak
Review: This one of the best books I have ever read. It was so powerful it moved me to tears. Words can not express the praise I have for Anderson. I congradulate her for writing such a compelling novel. She really captured the heart of Melanie and what it's like for abuse victims. It was so truthfully written and real I thought it was a true story(it isn't, is it?). When I finished the book I felt a sense of peace. I recomend this book to everyone. This book needs to be read. It will have a permanent home in my library. "Speak" will not be forgotten.

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Summary: A stunning and sympathetic novel
Review: Speak is one of the best novels I have ever read. Anderson lets the reader go into the mind of a heroine. The descriptive language and active monologue allowed me to actually feel the torment and confusion of a teen victim of being raped. This novel makes you feel what an outcast feels like and what it is like to be in their shoes. The main character, Melinda has always wanted to fit in, but since she called the police at a summer party, everybody dispises her and she is called an outast. She also has losed her best friend. As the ninth grade school year goes on, Melinda is invited to a spring break party and gets raped by an upper class man at Merryweather High. As she starts to get over this incident, she has another encounter with the rapist, Andy Evans, in a closet and he tries to get his hands on her, but she gets over her silence and screams which she has never done before. Melinda demonstrates the way to speak up for yourself. Melinda ends up being accepted by her peers, which is what she has always wanted. She gains her friends back and is not considered an outcast anymore. I highly recommend this book for a person who would want to see how an outcast would feel in their high school years and what could happen in it.

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Summary: Words Of Emotion
Review: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is one of those special books that comes along once in a great while. It is a novel that will touch the hearts of many young females, but will also appeal to the male, seeing that I read the book and enjoyed it thoroughlly. We meet Melinda, and are taken away into her depressed and sedated world. We wonder why this young freshman is the way she is, why she feels so alone, why she has a horrible outlook on life, and why she never talks. The novel symoblizes the typical teenage life, being exact on almost every topic and opinion that is addressed in the novel. Laurie Halse Anderson shows here that she is a phenomnol writer. One who knows her audience and strikes home with them. She writes words of emtion, and makes us feel weak at heart, which is the message she is trying to deliever.

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Summary: fabulous
Review: Melinda, a freshman at Merryweather "Hi!School", is a social outcast. She called the cops on a high school party and now all of her friends hate her. "Speak" is filled with humor and compassion. Written almost like a diary, it lets the reader know what Melinda thinks of everything in her life, even though she is mute to all those around her. Her thoughts say so much, and you are praying that she will find her voice to speak up againt "IT". While reading "Speak", I was either laughing at her sarcasm, of crying about the terrible secret she had to keep from her parents, friends, and teachers. Through help from her art teacher, Melinda realizes that she can be like the trees she spent all year creating in art--she can grow and reach out to others. I will never forget Melinda's story, or the clever way the book is written. Laurie Halse Anderson has done spectacular work with her first novel.

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Summary: Speak
Review: The party of the summer was terminated by the telephone call of a frightened young girl. The school year that follows is as Melinda expected- she describes it precisely as "clanless." No one will admit her into their clique; their life. Her best friends of yesterday act as though she is nonexistent. The year progresses, hard feelings become cold, and Melinda slips into a depression that chills her soul. Her grades deteriorate along with her confidence and her concern for existence. Nothing can change until she searches within herself to uncover the courage to speak the truth about the party. And that will never happen. Unless circumstances force her to...

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Summary: fight back
Review: I loved this book! The girl learns to fight back against her rapist.She starts out being an outsider and at the end because she fight back against the guy who raped her everyone start being her friend and respecting her. At one part she sticks piece of glass on the guy because he trys to rape her again in a broom closet i loved that part. In this story she reminds me of myself she doesn't talk to people as much untill she stands up and opens up to everyone.At one point she talks about hating school and wondering why there are so many groups that spit up like prep ,jocks,and freaks. I recomend this book to any one who is hiding from soemone who has hurt them in some way and wants to stand up .

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Summary: A BEAUTIFUL WORK OF LITERATURE!
Review: Speak is one of the greatest works of contemporary young adult fiction I have ever read. It amazed me with its truth and emotion. Anyone who feels alone and troubled ought to be told about this book. Andreson tells the story of a young women in need that everyone, one way or another, can relate to.

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Summary: Superb and Enticing
Review: Speak is a marvoulous book written magnificently and so couragously. Even though it was written for only teen readers, it is able to reach almost any type of minority or infiriority that is felt inside ourselves. I recommend this book to ANY reader, no matter what kind of books they are interested in. After reading the first chapter of this book, you will automatically be taken out of breath. The willingness and eagerness that the author put into this book has been stupendously been brought out so clearly and so effectivly. I want EVERYONE to read this book, and hold the feeling I truly had soon after I read it. You can never get enough of it, and when it is over, you'll feel softly crumbled inside thinking "why not another chapter."

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Summary: Speak Speaks to You
Review: Wow, this is a really great book. It's an easy read that you just can't put down. The only bad thing about it is that it's so short!