![]() I knew it was going to be one of those books that left me feeling wrung out and exhausted, and I just couldn’t commit myself. I could never bring myself to actually begin reading Speak. I immediately ordered a copy from my library and brought it home. Carroll wrote and illustrated the fantastically creepy Through the Woods, which was among the favorite books that I read last year. It only came to my attention when I learned that Emily Carroll had done the illustrations for the graphic novel edition of the book, which was released last year. Īpparently I live under a rock, because I had never heard of Laurie Halse Anderon’s award winning 1999 novel, Speak. Through her work on an art project, she is finally able to face what really happened that night: She was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her. ![]() ![]() She is friendless–an outcast–because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. “Speak up for yourself-we want to know what you have to say.”įrom the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. ![]()
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