![]() ![]() She Speaks for many a disenfranchised teenager while demonstrating the importance of Speaking up for oneself.įrom Fever 1793 ‘Where’s Polly?’ I asked as I dropped the bucket down the well. In this powerful novel, an utterly believeable hero*ine with a bitterly ironic voice delivers a blow to the hypocritical world of high school. But this time Melinda fights back, refuses to be silent, and thereby achieves a measure of vindication. ![]() Her healing process has just begun when she has another violent encounter with him. 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. As time pas*ses, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end of summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. ![]() The first ten lies they tell you in high school’ 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 that this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. ![]()
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