iCharrisse / Charrisse Hombrebueno :: home of Charrisse - Reading this for the weekend....

SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson.

What a shame, I don’t have the real thing, only the e-book. So the photo credits goes here. Here’s a short synopsis:

Melinda Sordino is starting high school with a terrible secret and without any friends. At an end of summer party, Melinda was raped by a senior. Dazed and drunk, she called the police but left before they arrived. Now everyone thinks she called the police to break up the party. Everyone is mad at her, including her group of good friends from middle school. Melinda has told no one, not even her parents. She carries the burden of this alone, confused and inwardly tortured. Once a happy girl, she is now depressed, withdrawn and hardly ever speaks.

There’s also a 2004 movie adaptation of this book starring Kristen Stewart as Melinda Sordino. I’m thinking of watching it again after I finished reading it.




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