Speak

All teens should read this book. Peer pressure does a lot of bad things: one of those things is convincing victims to feel like they have done something wrong. Speak is a fast-paced read that involves the reader emotionally from the very start. Speak is an accurate depiction of the very common existence of high school cruelty and peer pressure. Everyone should identify with most of what happens in this novel, no matter what there age is. As the reader you will get mad at the good characters as well as the bad. Every page you will turn, it will give you hop that Melinda will somehow find the strength she needs to at last reveal what had happened to her and release herself from the pain and anguish that she is living with.