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Thank you We sneak in Speak Melinda has a protagonist

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Is melinda easy to relate to Melinda is like everybody

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in her like ordinary day to day life She worries

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that you know the other people at her school don't

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like her She feel sad because her parents are mad

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at her You know she just wants to live a

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normal life but at the same time she has all

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these deeply mysterious things about her Once melinda finally does

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reveal what happened to her she starts writing on the

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bathroom wall shakes a list called boys to stay away

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from and over time other girls to that list and

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she starts to realize that there are a lot of

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girls at her school that have been hurt or victimized

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by the boys of their school So even these experiences

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that seem like a very personal and isolating are often

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quite common which is really hot it's really tragic but

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it's also helpful to know because the point in the

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end is that melinda's not alone and also no one

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read every book is totally alone Is melinda easy to 00:01:26.027 --> [endTime] relate to No

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