![]() ![]() Carroll’s grayscale artwork perfectly depicts the starkness of Melinda’s depression through strong ink lines and striking panels that rely on pencil and charcoal textural effects for the backgrounds. This potent retelling of the modern classic Speak blends words and images to create magic: a new representation of a teen whose voice is ripped from her, the battles she must wage to find it again, and the triumph of finally being able to speak out. One of the few people to reach her is her art teacher, who helps her express with art what she has so deeply and painfully buried. Rarely speaking, ditching classes, and ignoring school assignments, she spirals downward into apathy and depression. Unable to tell anyone what actually happened at the party, Melinda withdraws more and more into herself. She involved the police in an end-of-summer party, and now everyone shuns her. Gr 7 Up –Melinda is already a pariah on her first day as a freshman at Merryweather High. ![]()
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