SPEAK

Ten years ago Laurie Halse Anderson wrote a book that is now considered a classic of teen literature. I don't say classic with the dusty and boring connotation it often means to me; I say it in that SPEAK helped set the tone for quality and truth in the teen fiction explosion that soon followed. In my opinion. Anyway, SPEAK has touched many, many lives, and in honor of that and its ten-year anniversary, LHA wrote a poem of tribute to all those people who have wrote to her over the last decade to share how Melinda's story in SPEAK touched their lives.

Here is the video of her reading her poem:



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