speak.

Have you ever read the book, Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson? If not, I high recommend it. For me, it's a book that I can read countless times (in fact, I have read countless times) without it getting old or boring. To me, those are the best books to have. I was first introduced to the book my sophomore in high school in my English class. We read it as a class and it was the first book I HAD to read for school that I actually enjoyed reading and didn't just skim through.


Basically, my own synopsis of the book is: Melinda Sordino, a teenager, goes to a end-of-summer party thrown by her fellow classmates. While she is there she is raped by the most popular jock in school. She naturally calls the police, who arrive shortly after and crash the party. However, her friends there didn't know the circumstances of the police call and thought she did it to be a tattle-tale to ruin the party. When school starts, Melinda is the total outcast. Everyone picks on her, humiliates her, pretty much does anything to make her life a living hell. She lost all her friends and really only has herself to rely on. She also loses her ability to SPEAK. Throughout the book you can see her struggles with dealing with fact that she got raped and she how she starts to grow from it.

This is a terribly easy read, the last time I read it, it only took me a day. It also was made into a movie, check out the trailer: 

If you have read this book, or have seen the movie, did you like it? Let me know what you thought.