Teen Page Turners Book Club: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Love to read and want to meet fellow bookworms like you? Join our NEW Teen Page Turners Book Club! For tweens & teens. Be sure to pick up a free copy of this month's book before the meeting at the front desk. This month's book will be Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. 

About Speak: 

From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows 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 it 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 who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her. Her healing process has just begun when she has another violent encounter with him. But this time Melinda fights back, refuses to be silent, and thereby achieves a measure of vindication.