Speak
The Graphic Novel
by Laurie Halse Anderson
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appears in For Teens, Young Adult, and Fiction.
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 endofsummer party by calling the cops, so now nob...
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appears in For Teens, Young Adult, and Fiction.
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