Speak 3

I just finished Speak and I really liked it!!!! Melinda is a very shy character throughout the book, but at the end she really starts to come out of her shell. She makes another friend, Ivy, who she was friends with before she lost all of her friends. She also sticks up to Heather, after Heather dumps her as a friend and then wants Melinda to help her decorate for the Prom, and she sticks up to Andy, who raped her. He gets really mad at her and then tries to rape her again but she fights back and screams and eventually gets him away. The lacrosse team comes to help her and she befriends them too. Also, throughout the book, you see how her art evolves. She needs to make art about a tree and struggles with this the entire time.  At the end, she finally perfects this tree, the last minute of school. This was not the best book to be reading at the beginning of high school because Melinda has horrible experiences though her freshman year, but she grew a lot from her freshman year and I hope I do too. I very much enjoyed this book!!