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Speak (National Book Award Finalist)

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ISBN-10: 0374371520

ISBN-13: 9780374371524

Edition: 1999

Authors: Laurie Halse Anderson, L. Anderson

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The first ten lies they tell you in high school "Speak up for yourself - we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows that this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only her art class offers any solace, and is is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible party: she was raped by an upperclassman, a guy…    
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Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 10/22/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 5.77" wide x 8.59" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English