#39
Title: Speak
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Reader: Mandy Siegfried
Genre: YA
Category: Fiction
Rating: B
Published:
1999
Dates: 7/16/16 – 7/19/16
Cds/Hrs: 4/5
Melinda Sordino, a freshman
at Merryweather High, is an outcast because during a summer party she called
the cops, breaking it up. Why? Well – that’s what this book is all about –
the real why of the reason for the call.
She keeps this locked tightly in her head, staying mute throughout much
of the school year. In dealing with her
pain she skips school, refuses to talk to her parents about it, and is on the
verge of failing most of her classes – except art, her passion. In her art class, the teacher has students
randomly choose their theme. Her theme is trees
and becomes Mel’s raison d’etre. She
struggles with how to present the tree as an art form just as she deals with
truth of what happened that fateful night of the party. And during the school year, she grows in spite
of the nightmare and discovers strengths and gifts she didn’t know she had.
It takes a confrontation
where the truth of the matter rears its ugly head. In a terrifying conclusion Melinda
almost falls prey to another attack of It, The Beast.
It’s not surprising that
this book is on the Best 75 Books in the Last 75 Years List.
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