Citation: Anderson, L. H. (1999). Speak. Square Fish/Farrar Straus Giroux.
Content Warning: Rape, Sexual assault, sexual violence, self-harm, and bullying.
Something happened to Melinda at the party before school started, but no one knows because she is too afraid to tell anyone. Melinda barely speaks at all anymore, even if anyone at her school would talk to her. Through this powerful novel of pain and growth, we follow Melinda as she learns to express herself through more then just words and as she grows and heals she might be able to do the one thing that has come to feel impossible: speak.
Challenged for its themes of sexual violence, Speak is a must read for all those who have felt silenced.
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