Is There a Speak 2

So far, there’s no sequel, but Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak, gets requests for a sequel ever day. She wants to write one, but is waiting until “Melinda is ready” (“Here’s the thing…” in Speak: 10th Anniversary Edition).

When was Speak banned?

Despite being highly esteemed with over twenty awards to its name, educators and parents alike found reasons to request for Speak to be pulled from shelves and out of students’ lives. Two public times that the book was challenged were in 2010 and 2013.

How old was Laurie Halse Anderson when she was raped?

In her new memoir, Shout, Anderson reveals that she was raped when she was 13, and it took more than two decades before she could find the words to talk or write about it. The book begins: “This is the story of a girl who lost her voice and wrote herself a new one.”