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Freshman year at Merryweather High is not going well for Melinda Sordino. She busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, and now her friends—and even strangers—all hate her. So she stops trying, stops talking. She retreats into her head, and all the lies and hypocrisies of high school become magnified, leaving her with no desire to talk to anyone anyway. But it’s not so comfortable in her head, either—there’s something banging around in there that she doesn’t want to think about. She can’t just go on like this forever. Eventually, she’s going to have to confront the thing she’s avoiding, the thing that happened at the party, the thing that nobody but her knows. She’s going to have to speak the truth.
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LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON/PRINTZ
Melinda's high school experience is horrific, to say the least. After she calls the police during a party over the summer, she becomes a social pariah. But nobody knows the truth, which is that she was raped at the party by an upperclassman. The story follows her through her ninth grade year's failures, and at times it seems as though nothing will ever get better. Anderson is a whiz when it comes to generating memorable and unique nomenclature (Mr. Neck, school cliques, etc), and her short, choppy writing style punctuates Melinda's pain with every sentence. What surprised me, however, is that for a book with such heavy subject matter and with so frustrating and broken a protagonist, the book is funny. Recommended for older female teens.
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