Speak: By Laurie Halse Anderson

Melinda Sordino, a ninth grader at Merry Weather High School, is a
total outcast. She has no friends, the only one she can talk to a
crazy new girl: Heather. Melinda has no clan in High School, and now
her “friend” might go to a goody to shoes clan. Of course Melinda
doesn’t get invited in. At the end of 8th grade party Melinda called
the cops about something that happened and kids got arrested and all
the parents found out. And now the whole ninth grade loathes Melinda.
Including Rachel, the old best friend if Melinda, now she is Melinda’s
worst nightmare.



Melinda has gone from the girl who called the cops to the loser of the
whole ninth grade. She can’t talk about herself, because there is no
one there to listen. Her parents are always fighting and Heather is
too talkative to listen. That’s it, that is al the people she can try
to talk to. That’s all she has. So Melinda keeps it all locked up
inside.

Speak is a book about a girl who needs to talk, but has no one to talk
to. She needs to let everything out. This book is similar to The
Hunger Games. They both have a teenage girl who needs to talk to
someone but has no one to talk too. They are alone in there own worlds.

Melinda has a couple big internal conflicts, for example she has no
friends or aquatints. She is a total outcast with no one to be with.
Imagine having no one to be with having everyone hate you. Because
she has no friends, Melinda has a external problem: her grades are
failing. She can’t do the work. Just because she called the cops all
this happened.


By: Sarah Heffner