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291 pages ; 21 cm |
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Memoir |
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Educational level group: edu High school freshmen |
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Educational level group: edu High school sophomores |
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Educational level group: edu High school juniors |
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Educational level group: edu High school seniors |
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Educational level group: edu High school students |
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Age group: age Teenagers |
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National/regional group: nat Pennsylvanians |
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Gender group: gdr Women |
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age Children |
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Capitalization -- or lack therof-- follows author's use of lower case or upper case letters. |
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Variant titles from book jacket. |
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"Bestselling author of Speak"--Dust jacket. |
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"for the survivors"--Dedication. |
| Summary |
"Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel Speak was first published twenty years ago, she has written a poetry memoir that is as vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless. In free verse, Anderson shares reflections, rants, and calls to action woven between deeply personal stories from her life that she's never written about before. Searing and soul-searching, this important memoir is a denouncement of our society's failures and a love letter to all the people with the courage to say #MeToo and #TimesUp, whether aloud, online, or only in their own hearts. Shout speaks truth to power in a loud, clear voice-- and once you hear it, it is impossible to ignore."--Publisher's description. |
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When she was thirteen years old, Anderson was a shy, bookish girl who was raped by a boy she trusted. She has since become known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed in the years since, she has written a poetry memoir that shares reflections, rants, and calls to action woven between deeply personal stories from her life that she's never written about before.--Adapted from book jacket. |
| Contents |
[dedication] -- introduction -- PRELUDE : mic test. -- one. in the name of love ; stained glass curtains in my mother's mouth ; unclean ; earthbound ; directionally challenged ; practice ; chum ; lovebrarians ; poem for my favorite teacher ; hippos ; closeted shame ; payback ; amplified ; first blood ; fencing ; cemetery girl ; driven ; ante-crescendo ; packing for exile ; IT, part 1 : gasoline ; IT, part 2 : trees ; IT, part 3 : playing chicken with the devil ; clocks melting on the floor ; pain management ; buzzed ; ninth grade : my year of living stupidly ; diagnosis ; Salinger and me ; speaking in tongues ; locker up ; scrawling yawps ; gauntlet, thrown ; candy-striped ; ignorance ; chronological cartography ; cardboard boxes ; peanut butter chews ; high diving ; germination ; riding the undertow ; Things I carried to Denmark ; hvordan det begyndt = how it started ; longitude meets latitude ; om efteråret = in the autumn ; om vinteren = in the winter ; om foråret = in the spring ; rødgrød med fløde på ; bridging ; commence reentry sequence ; separation, AWOL 1 ; reunion, AWOL 2 ; hitchhiking with my father ; strawberry-blonde fairy tales ; manure ; lazer focused ; drawn and quartered ; calving iceberg ; sweet-and-sour tree ; offending professors ; grinding it out ; scratching my throat with a pen ; cave painting ; if it pleases the court ; how the story found me ; Speak, Draft One, Page One (from my journal). -- |
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two. Polyhymnia ; conspiracy ; tsunami ; blowing up ; collective ; emergency, in three acts ; librarian on the cusp of courage ; inappropriate dictators ; innocence ; Word ; wired together ; unraveling ; #MeToo ; keys ; YourdickTM ; forgiveness ; banish ; triptych ; overheard on a train ; Danuta Danielsson ; musing ; anatomy ; free the bleed ; shame turned inside out ; callout ; ignore stupid advice ; Reckoning ; sincerely, ; not responsible for contents ; Catalyst ; face my truth ; a boy, a priest unholy ; loud fences ; feralmoans ; emerging ; two opposites of rape ; yes, please ; Ultima Thule ; adaptable heart. -- three. my perculiar condition arboreal ; Ganoderma applanatum ; sweet gum tree, felled ; piccolo ; lost boys ; tangled ; blood moon ; ordinary damages ; beeched ; say my name ; reminder ; POSTLUDE : my why. -- Resources for Readers: SEXUAL VIOLENCE ; MENTAL HEALTH -- Acknowledgments. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader UG 7.5 5.0. |
| Subject |
Anderson, Laurie Halse -- Poetry.
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Anderson, Laurie Halse. |
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Poetry.
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Anderson, Laurie Halse -- Juvenile poetry.
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Rape victims -- Biography -- Poetry.
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Rape victims. |
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Biographies.
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Rape victims -- Biography -- Juvenile poetry.
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Women authors -- Biography -- Poetry.
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Women authors -- Biography. |
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Women authors -- Biography -- Juvenile poetry.
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Women authors. |
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Young adult works.
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Fiction.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographical poetry.
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Juvenile works.
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Autobiographies.
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Poetry.
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| Note |
Title on book jacket: Shout : the true story of a survivor who refused to be silenced |
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Book jacket flap: The Moment to speak has passed, now it's time to SHOUT : a memoir in poetry |
| ISBN |
9780670012107 (hardcover) |
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0670012106 (hardcover) |
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