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Warning: This book will make you cry and laugh! Make sure you have a box of tissues and a glass of water next to you while you are reading it!

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Melinda Sordino (her last name is an Italian Word that means mute or deaf ) starts her freshman year at high school the worst way possible: she has no friends and most of the school hates her because she call the cops at a party where teenagers where drinking!

While the story continues we start to get some inside of Melindas troubled familie, and past! We soon discover that Melinda was rape at the party and she never confessed it making her stop talking!

Melindas, life  is always getting more complicated: she stops talking and doesnt tell anyone one about the attack , her only friend abandoned her, her rapist  is a senior at her high school, all adults in her life (except her art teacher) are mad with her and grounded her because her marks are low,&

But though Melindas life is falling apart her sense of humor (though sometimes a little morbid) never disappears providing the reader with sarcastic comments about her high school life!

  I love this book, is amazingly strong and real and I totally understand Melindas feelings!
The writing is simple and everyone can understand the message that Laurie Halse Anderson is

passing: if something bad happened to you SPEAK UP !

10/10