Speak Contributor(s): Anderson, Laurie Halse (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374371520 ISBN-13: 9780374371524 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: October 1999 Annotation: After Melinda goes through a traumatic and violent incident at a summer party, she calls the cops and becomes a social outcast. Her freshman year is a disaster. As time passes, she stops talking--except through her paintings in art class. Her healing process has just begun when her perpetrator attacks again. Only this time, she doesn't keep silent. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Sexual Abuse |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 98031933 |
Age Level: 12-18 |
Grade Level: 7-13 |
Lexile Measure: 690(Not Available) |
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.8" W x 8.5" L (0.65 lbs) 208 pages |
Themes: - Catalog Heading - Language Arts - Curriculum Strand - Language Arts - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age - Sex & Gender - Girl's Interest - Topical - Teen |
Features: Dust Cover, Ikids, Price on Product |
Awards: New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Award, Winner, Fiction, 2001 South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award, Winner, Young Adult, 2001 Iowa Teen Award, Nominee, Young Adult, 2002 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award, Nominee, Children's, 2001 Kentucky Bluegrass Award, Winner, Grades 9-12, 2001 Black-Eyed Susan Award, Nominee, High School, 2002 Volunteer State Book Awards, Winner, Grades 4-6, 2001 Rhode Island Teen Book Award, Nominee, Ages 12 & Up, 2001 Heartland Award, Winner, Young Adult, 2001 Sequoyah Book Awards, Winner, Young Adult, 2001 Bookseller's Choice, Winner, Young Adult, 2000 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, Nominee, Young Adults, 2000 National Book Awards, Nominee, Young People's Lit., 1999 Michael L. Printz Award, Honor Book, Young Adults, 2000 L.A. Times Book Prize, Nominee, Young Adult Fiction, 1999 Carolyn W. Field Award, Winner, Children's, 2000 California Young Reader Medal, Nominee, High School, 2003 |
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/13/1999 pg. 85 Booklist 09/15/1999 pg. 247 Kirkus Review - Children 09/15/1999 pg. 1496 Booklist 11/15/1999 pg. 618 Booklist Ed Choice Youth 01/01/2000 pg. 820 New York Times 03/12/2000 pg. 30 ALA Best Books Young Adults 01/01/2000 pg. 1340 ALA Recmd for Reluctant YA's 01/01/2000 pg. 1361 Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/1999 pg. 92 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style Booklist 11/15/2000 pg. 632 Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2000 pg. 92 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style School Library Journal 10/01/1999 Library Journal 12/01/1999 Entertainment Weekly 10/15/2010 pg. 78 |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 32480 Reading Level: 4.5 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 7.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Anderson, Laurie Halse: - Laurie Halse Anderson is the New York Times-bestselling author who writes for all ages. Known for tackling tough subjects with humor and sensitivity, her work has sold nearly five million copies. Two of her books, Speak and Chains, were National Book Award finalists. Chains also made the Carnegie Medal shortlist in the United Kingdom. Her YA novel, The Impossible Knife of Memory, was longlisted for the National Book Award. Laurie was the proud recipient of the 2015 Intellectual Freedom Award given by the National Council of Teachers of English, and the 2011 Free Speech Defender Award given by the National Coalition Against Censorship and presented to her by her hero, Judy Blume. She has also received the 2009 Margaret A. Edwards Award given by YALSA division of the American Library Association, the ALAN Award given by the National Council of Teachers of English, the St. Katharine Drexel Award from the Catholic Librarian Association, and the Outstanding Alumni Award, given by the American Association of Community Colleges. She was also nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2017, which is one of her proudest accomplishments because it is presented to children's book creators from around the world in honor of the work and life of Sweden's magnificent Astrid Lindgren. |
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