Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson [FIRST EDITION] 1999 • FSG

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

FIRST EDITION [1999] FARRAR STRAUS GIROUX

11th printing / 1999. 

Hardcover with dust jacket in good condition.   

Dust jacket is in great shape; light wear now housed in a new archival quality jacket protector. 

Book itself has *a few faint stains / scuffs to front boards.  Inside, pages are clean and bright with no visible wear.  Reads beautifully. 

The first ten lies they tell you in high school.  "Speak up for yourself—we want to know what you have to say."

In Laurie Halse Anderson's powerful novel, an utterly believable heroine with a bitterly ironic voice delivers a blow to the hypocritical world of high school. She speaks for many a disenfranchised teenager while demonstrating the importance of speaking up for oneself.  Speak was a 1999 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature.  Bookshop Apocalypse