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
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. In Laurie Halse Anderson's
powerful novel, an utterly believable heroine with a bitterly
ironic voice delivers a blow to the hypocritical world of high
school. She speaks for many a disenfranchised teenager while
demonstrating the importance of speaking up for oneself. "Speak
"was a 1999 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's
Literature.
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