Speak: The Graphic Novel — Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Issue: #1
"Speak up for yourself-we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless - an outcast - because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. Through her work on an art project, she is fin...
First appearances: Melinda
Creators: Emily Carroll, Laurie Halse Anderson
Characters: Melinda