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  YOU DESERVE COMPASSION, UNDERSTANDING AND HELP.

  RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network)

  www.rainn.org

  SOAR (Speaking Out Against Rape) www.soar99.org

  NSVRC (National Sexual Violence Resource Center)

  www.nsvrc.org

  Rape Treatment Center www.911rape.org

  National Sexual Assault Hotline: 1.800.656.HOPE

  Copyright © 1999 by Laurie Halse Anderson

  All rights reserved

  www.fsgkidsbooks.com

  Designed by Filomena Tuosto

  eISBN 9781429997041

  First eBook Edition : April 2011

  First edition, 1999

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Anderson, Laurie Halse.

  Speak / Laurie Halse Anderson.—1st ed.

  p. cm.

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

  ISBN: 978-0-374-37152-4

  [1. High schools—Fiction. 2. Schools—Fiction. 3. Emotional problems—Fiction. 4. Rape—Fiction.] I. Title.

  PZ7.A54385Sp 1999

  [Fic]—dc21

  98-31933