In what Publishers Weekly named a "stunning debut," Melinda Sordino gives up talking before her freshman year of high school. Shunned by her classmates, who misunderstand why she called the cops after a party over the summer, Melinda's grades plummet and she becomes withdrawn. She is not without her reasons: Melinda is trying to cope with being raped by an upperclassman who still taunts her in the new school year. Hailed as a book "all teens should read" by one Amazon customer, Speak is about "a horrible event dealt with using lyrical prose, humor, and deep honesty" says another. A 2000 Printz Honor Book, 1999 National Book Award finalist, and 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, Kirkus concluded that Laurie Halse Anderson's first novel is "hard for readers to forget."
Parental Advisory: rape.
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