Melinda Sordino busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now her old friends won’t talk to her, and people she doesn’t even know hate her from a distance. The safest place to be is alone, inside her own head. But even that’s not safe. Because there’s something she’s trying not to think about, something about the night of the party that, if she let it in, would blow her carefully constructed disguise to smithereens. And then she would have to speak the truth. This extraordinary first novel has captured the imaginations of teenagers and adults across the country.
Anderson’s words often seem gleaned directly from a confused teenager’s soul.
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[...] Franzen for the YA set, surely not Suzanne Collins? And maybe I’ll say, well, I haven’t read Speak, but you might check out Laurie Halse Anderson. By the way, her book has been challenged from a [...]
[...] character and show emotion without “telling.” One of the best examples I found of this was in Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. Her descriptions of the passing seasons mirrored Melinda’s growth and [...]
[...] "Slaughterhouse-Five" and Sarah Ockler's "Twenty Boy Summer," but to allow Laurie Halse Anderson's "Speak" to be used in the district's high school, The Springfield News-Leader [...]
[...] glog I created, is an alternative book report for Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak. Something really bad has happened to Melinda Sordino just before she starts her freshman year of [...]
[...] as a sappy sobfest or worse a sentimental piece of drivel masked as a Novel About Important Issues. When done right however, you might end up with a book that will live to tell a tale of courage, honesty and optimism. With [...]
[...] ~ SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson: This was my book club choice last month and it was fantastic. It [...]
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[...] Laurie’s site: Melinda Sordino busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now her old friends won’t [...]
[...] out Courtney Summers. And vice versa. I’ve read a number of Anderson’s books – Speak, Wintergirls, Twisted, and Prom. You can’t go wrong with any of those if you’re [...]
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[...] fact, the author of “Speak,” Laurie Halse Anderson*, included an afterword in her book about how important it is not to keep [...]
[...] those stories that have to be told! Remember the night that you read Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson and you said, “There’s a story that needs to be told.” You have a few stories [...]
[...] I found out that two killer YA novels were available — Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton and Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. Each class voted for a book to read — one picked Rumble Fish and the other picked Speak. So [...]
[...] incoming ninth graders have three books to read: “Speak,” by Laurie Halse Anderson; “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho; and “Of Mice and [...]
[...] Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. A new read for me. I read this just recently and have fallen in love with the author and her works of young adult fiction. Melinda’s cursed beginning to high school and her wretched secret pull at your heart as you watch her bullied inside and out. Her other works including historical fiction books Chains and Forge are well written and would be excellent for the young and old. [...]
[...] Every so often I read, see or hear something that is a great reminder of why I write. Last week I happened upon this amazing video of author Laurie Halse Anderson, reading a poem she wrote about the reader responses to her book, Speak. [...]
[...] about the blatant ridiculousness that has been taking place around Laurie Halse Anderson’s novel, Speak. Wesley Scroggins, an associate professor at Missouri State University, claims this novel is filthy [...]
[...] Banned Books Week Virtual Read Out (more to come on this, promise). I chose to read an excerpt of Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, because I’ve loved this book for years along with just about [...]
[...] Laurie Halse Anderson’s “Speak,” Melinda couldn’t talk about what happened when she was raped and, instead, expressed herself [...]
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[...] 8th grade, I read this book titled Speak. Speak was written by Laurie Halse Anderson and was published in 1999. It was a story of a girl named Melinda Sordino. The book takes place in [...]
[...] and everyone else’s, reminded me of what happened to Melinda in Laurie Halse Anderson’s “Speak,” which would be a great companion novel to this book. As I read, I felt Mac’s unspoken pain and [...]