num_pages: 230
description: "The ninth graders are herded into the auditorium. We fall into clans: Jocks, Country Clubbers, Idiot Savants,Cheerleaders... I am clanless. I wasted the last weeks of August watching bad cartoons. I didn't go to the mall, the lake, or the pool, or answer the phone. I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude. And I don't have anyone to sit with."From her first moment at Merryweather High, Melinda Sordino knows she's an outcast. Her old friends won't talk to her, and people she doesn't know glare at her. If only she could explain... but she just can't find the words.
language: English
title: Speak
titlecomplete: Speak
characters: David Petrakis, Andy Evans, Nichole Smythe Burnell, Mr. Freeman, Ivy Hall, Melinda Sordino, Heather, Rachel Bruin
genres: Fiction, Coming Of Age, Mental Health, Teen, School, Young Adult, Banned Books, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, High School
ratings_count: 576405
places: Syracuse, New York
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: SCBWI Golden Kite Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Young Adult, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Michael L. Printz Award, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: South Carolina Book Award
category: Young Adult Book Award, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Rhode Island Teen Book Award, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Evergreen Teen Book Award, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Young Adult, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Lincoln Award, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Young People's Literature, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Oklahoma Sequoyah Award
category: YA, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Margaret A. Edwards Award
publisher:  Hodder Children's Books