Speak

Melinda Sordino busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now her old friends won't talk to her, and people she doesn't even know hate her from a distance. The safest place to be is alone, inside her own head. But even that's not safe. Because there's something she's trying not to think about, something about the night of the party that, if she let it in, would blow her carefully constructed disguise to smithereens. And then she would have to speak the truth. This extraordinary first novel has captured the imaginations of teenagers and adults across the country. Awards for SpeakA 2000 Printz Honor BookA 1999 National Book Award FinalistAn Edgar Allan Poe Award FinalistA 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistWinner of the SCBWI Golden Kite AwardAn ALA Best Book for Young AdultsAn ALA Quick PickA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Booklist Top Ten First Novel of 1999A BCCB Blue Ribbon BookA School Library Journal Best Book of the YearA Horn Book Fanfare Title