![]() ![]() It is most frequently challenged for what is considered to be explicit sexual content. ![]() A secret that threatens to destroy her and any hope for her future.Īccording to The American Library Association, “Speak” was one of the Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books between 20. She finds comfort in art class and the poet Maya Angelou.īut Melinda is holding onto a secret. ![]() Without anyone to turn to, Melinda deems herself an outcast. However, her best friends have abandoned her after an incident at a summer party. She struggles with her identity, family and a new school. Throughout the first chapters of Laurie Halse Anderson’s “Speak,” Melinda seems like your average teenage girl. She has seven new notebooks, a skirt she hates and a stomachache. Melinda Sordino starts her first day of high school like any other teenager. ![]()
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