Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson, Fiction, 197

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    Melinda Sordino's first day of high school. She gets dirty looks from all of her old friends. She doesn't fit in with anyone at school, or have any friends. She takes an art class and has an assignment to create a tree or trees. It helps her express her feelings and realize what has happened to her. She was raped and she needed to get it off her chest, to express to someone what pain she had been through. In the end she finds out who she really is.