Speak

//"I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude. And I don't have anyone to sit with.// //I am outcast"...//
====**__About the book:__** //Speak// is a fiction story written in 1999 by Laurie Halse Anderson. This is just one of the many amongst phenominal and award winning stories written by Anderson. It story captures the thoughts of a teenage girl after a sexual attack. Speak is based on a girl named Melinda's life after she attended a party one night over the summer before her freshman year of high school and was raped by a popular boy, a senior at her school. In this story, Melinda is being rejected by her friends and misunderstood by her parents and teachers on top of trying to cope with this tragedy. After noone seems to be able to help her, Melinda decides to stop talking, hense the name of the book, "Speak". Throughout the story, you read Melinda's thoughts and feelings on her first year of high school and see why she acts the way she does in reaction to thing that are said and done to her. After a while, you feel like you get to know Melinda through the author's strong descriptions and real-life emotions she gives her character that everyone can relate to.====