UPDATE! SHOUT, my memoir in verse, is out, has received 9 starred reviews, and was longlisted for the National Book Award!įor bio stuff: Laurie Halse Anderson is a New York Times bestselling author whose writing spans young readers, teens, and adults. Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Group ©1999 Laurie Halse Anderson (P)2000 Random House, Inc.
'SPEAK' was a 1999 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature. In this powerful audiobook, an utterly believable, bitterly ironic heroine speaks for many a disenfranchised teenager while learning that, although it's hard to speak up for yourself, keeping your mouth shut is worse. Once that happens, she can't be silent - she must speak the truth.
Try as she might to avoid it, it won't go away, until there is a painful confrontation. She retreats into her head, where the lines and hypocrisies of high school stand in stark relief to her own silence, making her all the more mute.īut it's not so uncomfortable in her head, either - there's something banging around in there that she doesn't want to think about. She busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops - a major infraction in high school society - so her old friends won't talk to her, and people she doesn't know glare at her. From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows she's an outcast.
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