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Speak is a 1999 novel by Laurie Halse Anderson about a teenager named Melinda Sordino. It was made into a film in 2004, see Speak (film).

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In the summer before her freshman year of high school, Melinda Sordino is raped at a party by a popular senior, Andy Evans. Melinda calls the police and they bust the party, but she does not report the rape. Melinda's friends refuse to speak to her because she ruined the party and she is left an outcast.

Melinda's art teacher, Mr. Freeman, asks his students to focus on one randomly chosen topic and make it "say something" by the end of the year. Melinda is assigned the subject "tree."

Over the course of the year, Melinda works to regain some confidence and rebuild her social network. The development of her tree artwork mirrors her gradual growth, or regrowth. When one of her former friends begins dating Andy Evans, Melinda works up the courage to begin telling her story, if only in fragments. At the close of the novel, Melinda has confronted her attacker directly and exposed him to the rest of the school. She begins to tell her story to an adult - her art teacher, Mr. Freeman. When students see the truth of Melinda's accusations, they improve their treatment of her.

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