And yet, there are some other books I’ve read this year that are similar in tone, without being quite as desperate or quite as hopeless, ones that I liked substantially more and that I’d be far more likely to recommend than Speak. I listened to it earlier this year and enjoyed it – I think it was well-written and had many fine qualities. Instead, it is usually a gradual and long-term change, and the crux of the conflict happens internally, personally, or in a small group rather than in front of a cheering audience. The storylines rarely revolve around a major event like the ugly girl getting made over and becoming Prom Queen or the rich girl realizing in a big cafeteria scene that her friends are her most important assets.
In these books, the main characters are rarely the most popular or beautiful or rich kids in school, but rarely the ugliest or poorest or dumbest. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson seems to be considered one of the flagship novels of a new generation of Young Adult literature, where teens face the real problems in life and deal with them in various successful and unsuccessful ways.
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