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Happy Thursday! There's a week of rain predicted here in northern NJ and I have a nice stack of books on hand. #TBT features Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. Melinda Sordino starts her freshman year of high school as an outcast. She called the police at the big end-of-summer party and some students were arrested, but not the right one. Melinda found that she could not speak about what happened to her to cause her to call the police. She has almost entirely stopped speaking. She can't even stand to look in the mirror. Her parents think she's seeking attention.
This first-person, almost stream-of-consciousness story is often painful to read, and may not be for everyone, but it tells an important story. Speak was published in 1999. It was a National Book Award Finalist, a Printz Honor book, numerous other awards and was also a New York Times Bestseller. It was adapted for film and was released in 2004, starring Kristen Stewart as Melinda. More recently, it was adapted into a graphic novel. It appears regularly on the American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom Banned Books Lists.
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