Speak

This novel was one of my favorites, by far. In this realistic fiction we follow a girl named Melinda, who is coming into her freshman year in high school. The summer before her start into high school, There was a huge party that she went to and meets a friend named Andy. Well something happens and the cops show up break up the party and later they find out that it was Melinda who called the police. No one bother to find out why she did, but for the rest of the following year it is torture for Melinda. Turns out that she was raped by Andy that night and she called the cops to make a report, but she backs down from following through it, which is the reason the cops showed up. Melinda chooses to deal with her troubles by not speaking at all  and voices her problems through an art in her art class where her teacher becomes very aware of her outcry.