Speak

If you like to read book and learn thing from it I recommend you to read this book Speak by Laurie Anderson.She also have some other nice books like Ashes,Twisted,Chains and so on.I also recommend you to read those book.

This book is about a girl name Melinda.Melinda went to a party over the summer with her friends.But she was raped,so she call the police and the police ended the party.Her friends was not happy with the idea that she call the police.It was her freshman year at Merry Weather High School.Melinda did not tell anyone about what happened.She was no more the person she used to be.She was also rejected by her friends and best friend.When she told people about what happened she was free from inside,She was becoming the girl she use to be.

I really like this book,because this book teach people how to speak out.This book is not only for teenagers or for kids,a also for men and women, it is a really good book to read.

Book Review by Eddie S.

Speak

If you want to get lost in a book read "speak" by Laurie Anderson, it's a young adult novel. She has written "chains", "wintergirl", "fever 1796" and plenty more. I've only read one book by her but it was so good. The theme is it's not always good to keep things in, it's okay to talk to people about the problems you are having or asking for help.

Her book is about a young freshman girl named Melinda . She went to a party before school started and ended up calling the police on the party she went to and no one knows why, everyone just thinks it's because she was a young girl that didn't want to be at the party anymore buts that not really want happen. Her first year of high school and nobody wants to be her friend because of what she did. Soon she makes a new friend, but loses her to a group at school. Melinda doesn't care to much about school, only art. She doesn't talk to nobody and her parents don't seem to pay to much attention to her at home, until her and her parents get called into school to talk about her grades. Soon after she started doing better in school, not skipping classes. One school day she was in the media center and saw one of her old friends and finally decided to talk to her. They talked about her old friends boyfriend and how Melinda didn't like him because of some things he did.... of course Melindas old friend didn't believe her and Called her a freak, also saying she was crazy. Couple days later Melinda was in art and someone spilled paint on her shirt, so the girl and her both went to the bathroom. Melinda went in the stall to take her shirt off to clean it and saw that people wrote stuff in the bathroom about other girls problems. Then Melinda thought she should write about this boy, little did she know other girls had the same problem. When she went back to that stall a couple days later she seen a lot more people wrote about that boy that she did. After the weekend there was a lot of talk about prom and what Melindas old friend did. What her friend did lead to a lot of danger for Melinda.

If you want to find out the rest you should probably go read that book, it'll hook you in right away. Every time I started reading this book I didn't want to put it down. Laurie Anderson wanted to target teenage girls. It taught me that is okay to ask for help or talk to someone and to not keep it in. You never know someone might be going through what you are going though. Everyone should go read the book "speak" shows you why you should speak up instead of keeping it in.

Book Review by Kayla C.

Speak

I have just finished this fantastic novel, Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, an award winning author and has written many novels such as Theimpossible knife of memory, Winter girls, and Fever 1793. In each story she writes, she talks about the depression stages a teenage girl. This story has something that every girl can relate to.

This story takes place when Melinda, the main character in our story, first starts high school as a freshman with no friends, due to a certain incident that happened over the summer. When no one supports her, she finds herself happiest alone, locked in her room, with a blade. With failing grades, personal problems, and friend issues, Melinda notices her love of art, as a place to escape her problems and a search for inspiration.

I was actually very pleased with this novel. I thought it was very entertaining, and was very deep. I, personally, actually found certain parts in this novel that I could relate to, and I'm sure you can relate to as well. Although, I would recommend this book for pre-teen and up. Due to language and adult acts. Other than that, I definitely recommend this book. Read Speak, and join Melinda on her rough, and sorrow journey through high school.

Book Review by Lindsay E.

Speak

I just recently finished the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. Personally this is the first book i've read by her, but she's an award reading author of her books Fever 1793, and Catalyst as well as five picture books. This books was wrapped around the main character Melinda doing something to get a Andy Evans a popular senior busted.

Entering high school a freshman everyone hates her, and her old friends don't talk to her. She feels the safest way is to be alone tapping herself into self harm. The only class Melinda passed all year with an A was art, she felt he pushed her talent out of her. After feeling like the worst day of her life and the day everyone started hating her would come back to haunt her she talks to her old best friend Rachel and told her why she did what she did, and of course she didn't believe her until it happened again. Everyone tends to feel bad for Melinda and is now showing her

This was an okay book, I felt it got boring half way through the book. I personally think this is a type of book targeted for girls around 8th and 9th grade just because Melinda is a freshman and when everything started it was the summer of 8th grade. It's a good book if you read the whole thing, read Speak and find out what happened that summer and why. :)

Book Review by Sofia D.