Speak: The Graphic Novel
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The bestselling, award-winning modern classic Speak is now a stunning graphic novel—adapted by Laurie Halse Anderson herself and brought to life visually by Eisner Award winner E.M. Carroll.
"Speak up for yourself—we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, an outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, Melinda becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only her art class offers any solace, and it is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible party: she was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her. Her healing process has just begun when she has another violent encounter with him. But this time Melinda fights back—and refuses to be silent.
The groundbreaking National Book Award Finalist and Michael L. Printz Honor Book about consent, healing, and finding your voice comes alive for new audiences and fans of the original novel in Speak: The Graphic Novel.
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Abigail Elyse
Created 8 days agoAshley
Created 18 days ago
“🚨TW: SA
I haven’t read the novel, I’m not sure I could.
This was really good.
📍1 in 5 women will experience SA or someone attending to SA them (in the USA).
📍Younger people are at a higher risk ages 16-19.
I am the 1 in 5.
It took me a long time to find my voice again.
This was a heavy but good graphic novel based on the Authors experience and fighting for themselves and learning to speak again.
Resources:
RAINN: www.rainn.org (rape, abuse and incest National network)
National sexual violence resource center: www.nsvrc.org
End rape on campus: endrapeoncampus.org”Nídia Macedo
Created 27 days agoSoy
Created about 1 month agoAbout Laurie Halse Anderson
Laurie Halse Anderson is the New York Times-bestselling author of many award-winning books including the groundbreaking modern classic Speak, a National Book Award finalist which has sold over 3.5 million copies and been translated into 35 languages. In 2023, Anderson was named the laureate of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, which is given annually to authors, illustrators, oral storytellers, and reading promoters "for their outstanding contribution to children's and young adult literature." In 2009, Anderson was selected by the American Library Association for the Margaret A. Edwards Award for her "significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature." A passionate spokesperson for the need to combat censorship and promote diversity in publishing, she has been honored for her battles for intellectual freedom by the National Coalition Against Censorship and the National Council of Teachers of English. Mother of four, grandmother of dragons, and wife of one, she lives in Pennsylvania.
E.M. Carroll, an Eisner Award winning illustrator and author of Through the Woods, is also the creator of many popular Web comics. They live in Ontario, Canada.
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