Alice has always been mysterious. She's quiet and doesn't talk about herself much , not even to her closest friends. Alice's boyfriend is always moody and making her go into different moods as well. Nobody really knows why she acts this way, but Alice knows the truth. One day, she runs into an investigator who she has been serving at the coffee shop. They start talking and she hears who he is researching - Jennifer Jones, the child murderer who is supposedly still in jail. Suddenly her whole world stops because Alice knows what has really happened to Jennifer Jones.
Sixteen year old Mallory Hayden is an average teenager about as average as a soap opera celebrity can be! Mallory is the head writer of one of the hottest daytime soaps around, Likely Story. As the head writer, she has to deal with a sneaky mother, snobby co-workers, and an untrusting boyfriend, who tends to watch her every move. Other than those things, everything else is normal, until the Emmy nominations become public. Likely Story is nominated for multiple Emmy's and the atmosphere on set couldn't be any wilder!
Speak is the debut novel by Laurie Halse Anderson. It is about a ninth-grade girl named Melinda Sordino who chooses not to speak. At the beginning of the book, Melinda is just beginning high school with no friends. The only class she really cares about is art, where she is constantly trying to carve, draw, or sculpt the perfect tree. Throughout the book, we watch as Melinda struggles to deal with a huge problem in her life.
