Summary of the book "Speak"

The story "speak" describes a year-long excerpt from the life of a twelve-years-old girl. During this year, the girl Melinda had to go through a lot in high school. There was not one people, who wanted to be her friend. Everyone kept away from her and even her best friends had left her.

This all began at a party at one from her schoolmate’s house. She was asked by the most popular boy of her school for a dance and she agreed. After a while the boy called Andy started kissing her and then he took her to a car, where he wanted to have sex with her. But she didn’t want to and so the boy raped her.
After this Melinda went back to the party and called to police. Everyone hated her for doing this but no one knew why she did that. Melinda thought no one would understand if she would tell it to someone, so she decided to keep her mouth shut.
When school started, she met in the school bus a girl named Heather. She was the only one who talked to her but after a while even Heather blew her off. She said that she can’t be someone’s friend who is the whole life depressed like Melinda is.
Melinda really had a problem. On the one hand, her schoolwork went back, she often had trouble with teachers and people and on the other hand, she always had to think about that party and had bad dreams at night and after a while she couldn’t sleep any more.
When the summer vacation was near, Melinda started to speak back to her very best friend. She told her about what happened at the party and the next day the whole school knew about it.
Then Melinda became into trouble with Andy and they actually started to fight. But suddenly some girls came and helped Melinda.
The same day, when Melinda came back home, she started to talk to her mother.
This is where the story ends.