Speak (Platinum Edition) by Laurie Halse Anderson Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Speak (Platinum Edition)
Book Review: Good book to read with your teenage daughter
Summary: 5 Stars
Bought this book so my daughter and I could each read it and then watch the movie...great to read as she is going into high school or early years of high school and talk about the peer pressure and stress teens go through...
Book Review: Great Book
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a book my son had to read when he was in middle school. I read it after him so we could talk about it. He didn't get the "right to the heart" feeling like I did. His experience with high school was great, mine wasn't so I could relate. Every girl should read this book before starting high school because other than the main character's circumstances, this is what high school is.Book Review: Great Book!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Great Service very quick. My daughter already read the book..and we are
ordering more by the same author...great summer reading
Book Review: It speaks to me.
Summary: 5 Stars
Melinda and her friends attend a high school party during the summer between Middle and High School where Melinda has a close encounter with a high school student who goes too far even after she says No. She is drunk, confused and scared so she calls the cops. In a fit of panic she flees the scene and spends the rest of her summer alone. From the first day of school she knows she has no friends now, her actions landed many people in jail. She befriends a new student named Heather and begins one long silent year of schooling. She stops speaking to anyone, they can't understand because she has no voice to explain it to people around her. In art (the only class she is passing) she is assigned to spend the year trying to work on one subject, trees. She recedes into herself as she tries to work out what happened and what she can do to fix it. She finds an abandoned Janitor closet and creates a safe space for herself.
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Book Review: No wonder it won so many awards!
Summary: 5 Stars
Wow, what a powerful book. I can see why it won so many awards.
It's the story of a teenage girl who starts her Freshman year as a social outcast because she called the cops on a wild part over the summer and everyone at school knows it. The book follows her for the next nine months. She is ignored, used, and picked on as she tries to simply make it through each day. She stops speaking, starts cutting school, and finds refuge in a janitor's closet that she cleans and decorates as a place to hide. She is severely depressed (at times I wondered if the story would end with her committing suicide - it doesn't), in fact this is one of the deepest, most disturbing looks at teenage depression I've seen. And there is a really tragic reason she called the police about the party. As the story progresses and her truth is exposed, I kept bursting into tears for her.
But really, the story (the lesson?) is about how she fights her way through her pain and problems. I loved every word of it.