My Speak Review
Laurie Halls Anderson captures the true lives of teens in high school everywhere in her novel Speak. It is an incredibly inspirational novel that allows the mind to smile, laugh, cry, and sympathize with Melinda Sordino, as they go trough the freshman year of an outcast teen with a secret.High school was supposed to be fun. She was supposed to still be friends with her inseparable group of loyal companions. A party, a phone call, and the cops ruined all of that and more for Melinda. Now, alone she ventures into the tortures of high school. IT has happened, IT was real. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. Melinda must face school, her friends, her parents, her teachers, and IT.Laurie Halls Anderson does an amazing job or revealing exactly what high school is really "all about." It's a great book for teens everywhere, giving incite to those feelings and places some of us have never been.