Throwback Thursday is a post where I feature a book that I either read years ago, or was published years ago in hopes of getting more readers to pick it up. I think that there are many different books out there, and some of them get forgotten after years of being on the shelves and I want to make them new and exciting again!

This week I am featuring:

  Speak by  Laurie Halse Anderson

Melinda Sordino busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now her old friends won't talk to her, and people she doesn't even know hate her from a distance. The safest place to be is alone, inside her own head. But even that's not safe. Because there's something she's trying not to think about, something about the night of the party that, if she let it in, would blow her carefully constructed disguise to smithereens. And then she would have to speak the truth. This extraordinary first novel has captured the imaginations of teenagers and adults across the country.

I remember reading this book in my early teens and it changed me. I was bullied extensively in middle school and a little in High School so this book was a great book for me to read. It deals with a lot of social issues that most YA books refuse to take notice of. At least back when this was published. 

I commend the author for writing this novel. It helped me through a very dark time in my life.  

~What are your thoughts on this book? Have you read it?~