Speak

Speak by Anderson, Laurie Halse. audioCD edition. ISBN: 9780739336724.

From her first moment at Merryweather High, Melinda Sordino knows shes an outcast. She busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops — a major infraction in high-school society — so her old friends wont talk to her, and people she doesnt know glare at her. She retreats into her head, where the lies and hypocrisies of high school stand in stark relief to her own silence, making her all the more mute. But its not so comfortable in her head, either — theres something banging around in there that she doesnt want to think about. Try as she might to avoid it, it wont go away, until there is a painful confrontation. Once that happens, she cant be silent — she must speak the truth. In this powerful audiobook, an utterly believable, bitterly ironic heroine speaks for many a disenfranchised teenager while learning that, although its hard to speak up for yourself, keeping your mouth shut is worse.