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jwinchell 's review for:
Speak: The Graphic Novel
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Reading the graphic novel version of this book was like reuniting with a long-lost friend for whom I have the utmost respect. Speak was a novel I used for lit circles when I taught freshmen; I remember being a new teacher and this book being *the* YA book to get in kids' hands. This book changed the conversation about what was possible in YA. I'm glad it's being freshened up for the digital, image-oriented generation of readers we have now.
The graphic novel makes explicit what was so understated in the novel: Melinda's isolation and outcast experiences as a 9th grader. To see those lunchroom and bus insults was so much more immediate for me than (my memory of) reading them. The ending is fast, but that's ok because the struggle to speak is what this book is about. I love that it finishes with a list of resources.
The graphic novel makes explicit what was so understated in the novel: Melinda's isolation and outcast experiences as a 9th grader. To see those lunchroom and bus insults was so much more immediate for me than (my memory of) reading them. The ending is fast, but that's ok because the struggle to speak is what this book is about. I love that it finishes with a list of resources.