Lauren Roedy Vaughn is an award-winning educator who has spent twenty years teaching English to high school students with language-based learning disabilities. Vaughn lives with her husband in Los Angeles, where she is an avid yogini and Big Lebowski nut.Her debut novel is OCD, The Dude, and Me.
For Bookshelves of Doom, Vaughn named her five top literary adult mentors...and two characters who could use one. One entry on the list:
Speak, by Laurie Halse AndersonRead about another entry on the list.
Melinda Sordino is unable to verbalize the trauma of being raped, and she retreats from the world and suffers outcast status. Her sensitive art teacher, Mr. Freeman, assigns a project through which she is able to find her voice and heal. Thank goodness for Mr. Freeman’s vision. His lesson plan was life changing. A powerful story told with authenticity.
Speak is one of Kerry Cohen's five great books about teenage girls and sex.
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