Title: Touching and beautifully written
Product review: I read Speak as part of a "Literature for the Adolescent" course, and this book drew the strongest responses from our class of any book we read that semester. All of us were moved by Anderson's dark, yet witty and often funny prose. This is the story of a teenage girl who experiences a horror that is all too real for so many young women. Our heroine suffers silently through an awful school year as she slowly learns to trust, heal, and speak up.You will find yourself laughing at Anderson's sharp and knowing depictions of high school social structure, parent-teenager relations, and teachers who just don't get it. You will cry in frustration and sadness at the heroine's pain and wonder how everyone around her can be so oblivious. You will cheer at her ultimate triumph and find yourself wanting more of her story. I strongly recommend this book to teenage girls and women of all ages.
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