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Speak

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From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows she's an outcast. She busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops - a major infraction in high school society - so her old friends won't talk to her, and people she doesn't know glare at her. She retreats into her head, where the lines and hypocrisies of high school stand in stark relief to her own silence, making her all the more mute.

But it's not so uncomfortable in her head, either - there's something banging around in there that she doesn't want to think about. Try as she might to avoid it, it won't go away, until there is a painful confrontation. Once that happens, she can't be silent - she must speak the truth.

In this powerful audiobook, an utterly believable, bitterly ironic heroine speaks for many a disenfranchised teenager while learning that, although it's hard to speak up for yourself, keeping your mouth shut is worse.

'SPEAK' was a 1999 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature.

RUNNING TIME => 5hrs. and 48mins.

©1999 Laurie Halse Anderson 2000 Random House, Inc. Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Group

Language: English

Format: Audible Audio

Release: October 22, 1999

Speak

0/5 ( ratings)

From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows she's an outcast. She busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops - a major infraction in high school society - so her old friends won't talk to her, and people she doesn't know glare at her. She retreats into her head, where the lines and hypocrisies of high school stand in stark relief to her own silence, making her all the more mute.

But it's not so uncomfortable in her head, either - there's something banging around in there that she doesn't want to think about. Try as she might to avoid it, it won't go away, until there is a painful confrontation. Once that happens, she can't be silent - she must speak the truth.

In this powerful audiobook, an utterly believable, bitterly ironic heroine speaks for many a disenfranchised teenager while learning that, although it's hard to speak up for yourself, keeping your mouth shut is worse.

'SPEAK' was a 1999 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature.

RUNNING TIME => 5hrs. and 48mins.

©1999 Laurie Halse Anderson 2000 Random House, Inc. Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Group

Language: English

Format: Audible Audio

Release: October 22, 1999

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