Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

This award winning book should be mandatory curriculum in schools!!  Every mom/daughter should read this book, every teenage boy, dad, everyone should read this book.  Melinda goes through high school being the outsider and a freak because she called the cops during a party.  She didn't speak all throughout high school, her grades slipped, she was a social outcast.  Her silence was the loudest cry for help.  This is a story about a young teenage girl that was raped.  You follow Melinda through her trauma.  It makes you realize the emotional turmoil that someone goes through because of one person making a stupid decision. Its a fact that most girls that are raped are teenagers and most of them don't speak up right away.  They think it's their fault and they're afraid that no one will believe them.  Guys should read this book to see what trauma rape really causes in young women, any woman.  It doesn't go into any details, but it gets the point across.  Please read this book, you won't regret it.