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Thank you We sneak in Speak the protagonist i'll ashman

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Who is the protagonist and what happens to her at

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the beginning of the book this novel's about melinda sardine

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Oh she is fourteen years old and she's starting high

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school so this novel is the story for her freshman

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year of high school and we know at the beginning

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of the novel that something pretty terrible has happened to

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her but we have no idea what it is We

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just know that she's nervous to go to school that

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she doesn't have friends that the people who used to

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be her friends are no longer speaking to her and

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that she's being bullied So over the course of the

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novel melinda learns how to express what's happened to her

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She learned how to speak up for herself She learns

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how to channel her feelings into art on dh it's

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generally a coming of age novel where this kind of

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a big problem that haunts her speaking of the novel

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is gradually dealt with Who is the protagonist And what 00:01:16.059 --> [endTime] happens to her at the beginning of the book

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