KDL Recommends

Speak

ISBN: 0374371520

Title: Speak

Author: Laurie Halse Anderson

KDL Description:

A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda’s freshman year in high school.

Amazon Description:

Often censored because it tells of a rape of the protagonist, Melinda Sordino, and she mentions self-harm. According to Anderson, in almost all the challenges she has heard about, the book remained in the curriculum. In two districts, it was taken out of the curriculum, but remained an option for independent reading.