Speak

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Hardcover
Publish Date: October 1999
Language: English
Reading Level: 4.5
EAN: 9780374371524

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Overview

The groundbreaking National Book Award Finalist and Michael L. Printz Honor Book with more than 3.5 million copies sold, Speak is a bestselling modern classic about consent, healing, and finding your voice.

“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 this is a big lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, an outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, Melinda 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–and refuses to be silent.

From Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award laureate Laurie Halse Anderson comes the extraordinary landmark novel that has spoken to millions of readers. Powerful and utterly unforgettable, Speak has been translated into 35 languages, was the basis for the major motion picture starring Kristen Stewart, and is now a stunning graphic novel adapted by Laurie Halse Anderson herself, with artwork from Eisner-Award winner Emily Carroll.

Awards and Accolades for Speak:
A New York Times Bestseller
A National Book Award Finalist for Young People’s Literature
A Michael L. Printz Honor Book
An Edgar Allan Poe Award Finalist
A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
A TIME Magazine Best YA Book of All Time
A Cosmopolitan Magazine Best YA Books Everyone Should Read, Regardless of Age

Details

Pages: 208
Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 1 in
Lexile Score: 690
Interest Level: Upper Grade (UG)
Point Value: 7
ISBN: 0374371520

Awards

2003 California Young Reader Medal - Nominee (High School)
2002 Black-Eyed Susan Award - Nominee (High School)
2002 Iowa Teen Award - Nominee (Young Adult)
2001 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award - Nominee (Children's)
2001 Heartland Award - Winner (Young Adult)
2001 Kentucky Bluegrass Award - Winner (Grades 9-12)
2001 New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Award - Winner (Fiction)
2001 Rhode Island Teen Book Award - Nominee (Ages 12 & Up)
2001 Sequoyah Book Awards - Winner (Young Adult)
2001 South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award - Winner (Young Adult)
2001 Volunteer State Book Awards - Winner (Grades 4-6)
2000 Bookseller's Choice - Winner (Young Adult)
2000 Carolyn W. Field Award - Winner (Children's)
2000 Edgar Allan Poe Awards - Nominee (Young Adults)
2000 Michael L. Printz Award - Honor Book (Young Adults)
1999 L.A. Times Book Prize - Nominee (Young Adult Fiction)
1999 National Book Awards - Nominee (Young People's Lit.)