Intro ; on silent reading book.

I am reading the book Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson. Laurie has writen many other books, and all ranges ; from children's books, adults, and teens. Ive read on of her other books "Prom", it is one of my favourite and i would highly recommend it to any teenage girl. One thing i found out about Laurie Halse Anderson that i did not know. Was that Halse, in her name is pronounced as halt-z. She even said most people would pronounce the s and e, as if to say 'Hal-see', so she felt the need to make clear the pronunciation. My book is about a girl named Melinda in grade 9. She went into grade 9 having no friends due to something that happened over the summer. She now has one friend that she talks to and hangouts with. Even though her friend, Heather wants to be very involved in the school and everyone in it due to being from a different town ; Malinda still wants nothing to do with becoming apart of the school and getting into clubs and activities to get to know people. They have many discussions about this problem regularly, yet Milinda still doesnt budge. So far in school she doesnt like many of her teachers, and they all already have nicknames. She still does work and what they ask, just doesnt agree with any of it really. In the books its only october, halloween night actually and still much school and evil ex-friends to deal with. There is a group of ex-friends that go to the same school, and pick on her whenever they can get the chance. They used to be so tight, in grade eight about four of them. Now they are all separated and very different people. The setting in this book, is mostly in the school " Merryweather High" , Milinda's house, and heather's house. It seems to be in pretty modern times, and right now it's in October, halloween just pasted yesterday. The book goes throught the whole school year, I'm assuming. The atmosphere so far, that i feel is as if Milinda is hidding something inside of her, and as if shes trapped in a sad depressing place. She seems as if, she cant have fun and be a kid, or she just chooses not to. She says she likes to just lay in bed and wrap up in the covers, as if it was covering her up from the world and she just likes to lay there and not think about anything. A chamber of no worries, and no thoughts. If she needs to do this often, and likes doing it then her life must not be very fun or exciting ; especially if she would rather lay in a bed and do nothing. Milinda is the main character, she is very to shy/herself about everything, and timmid. She doesnt take chances, and mostly keeps her thoughts and opinions to herself. The only person she really talks to ; her age, is Heather and, only tells heather half of the things she really thinks or feels. She doesnt get out much either, would rather stay alone. Which makes me get the feeling that she doesnt feel the need to talk to many people anymore, and act like a normal teenager would. I think this book is very enjoyable, you can relate to some of the things she feels because she is our age and talking about highschool, teachers, friends, ex-friends, classmates, parents, and much more that we may think about everyday. Right now i think im still going through the beginning of the book because not too much has actually happened, so there is much more to read about. mainly i cant wait to hear what really happened with her over the summer, that made he whole world change. Should be fun, and exciting. :)