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  • Great book!! This is the second time I have read this book. We read it for the high school book club. I think illustrates well how clicky and snobish high school students can be.

    

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• ― SheReads said on Mar 5, 2007 about the Hardcover edition| 1 feedback| 1 feedback

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  • It's her first year in high school. Melinda hardly ever speaks. She's unhappy at home and at school . . . all because of IT. She called the cops to break up a party she was at. That certainly did not make her popular with anyone at school. Even her friends from middle school want nothing to do with ... Continue

    It's her first year in high school. Melinda hardly ever speaks. She's unhappy at home and at school . . . all because of IT. She called the cops to break up a party she was at. That certainly did not make her popular with anyone at school. Even her friends from middle school want nothing to do with her now, but they don't know about IT.

    

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  • i like this book, it was good because most people can related to it..some people had stop talk to just like the girl and the book....

    

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• ― Randomchick707 said on Jul 10, 2008 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

Melinda Sordino busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now her old friends won't talk to her, and people she doesn't even know hate her from a distance. The safest place to be is alone, inside her own head. But even that's not safe. Because there's something she's trying not to think about, something about the night of the party that, if she let it in, would blow her carefully constructed disguise to smithereens. And then she would have to speak the truth. This extraordinary first novel has captured the imaginations of teenagers and adults across the country.

Awards for Speak

A 2000 Printz Honor Book
A 1999 National Book Award Finalist
An Edgar Allan Poe Award Finalist
A 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
Winner of the SCBWI Golden Kite Award
An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
An ALA Quick Pick
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A Booklist Top Ten First Novel of 1999
A BCCB Blue Ribbon Book
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
A Horn Book Fanfare Title

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