Speak By. Laurie Halse Anderson

A few weeks before her freshman year of high school, Melinda Sordino and her group of friends are invited to a high school party. There, Melinda gets drunk and meets an upperclassman, Andy Evans, who takes her to a secluded part of the woods and rapes her. She calls 911 and the police break up the party for underage drinking, arresting some of the kids. Numb and alone, Melinda walks miles home to an empty house. She tells no one what happened in the following weeks, and as a result, no one realizes she was raped.
All her friends and the party goers are angry with her for getting them into trouble, and ostracize her once school starts. Desperate for friends, Melinda becomes friendly with a new girl, Heather, who clings to Melinda only to abandon her when she gets the chance to join a popular clique.
As Melinda's depression worsens, she begins to skip school, withdraws from her parents, and aspires to do nothing more than take a nap. She creates a makeshift hide-away in an abandoned janitor's closet at school, where she goes to sleep during the day or hide when she is feeling anxious. Her only solace is art class, taught by Mr. Freeman, who encourages his students to express themselves.
When the school year is almost over, she befriends David Petrakis, her lab partner. When her former best friend, Rachel, begins dating Andy, Melinda feels obligated to tell her about the rape. The response is intense hostility, but eventually Rachel acknowledges the truth and dumps Andy.
As the school year comes to a close, Melinda returns to her janitor's closet to gather some things she left inside it. Andy confronts her, accusing her of fabricating the assault, saying that she consented and is jealous of his relationship with Rachel. When he attempts to physically rape her, she screams, breaking a mirror; she holds a shard of glass up to his neck, saying, "I said no." Fortunately, Melinda's former friend Nicole and the lacrossed team hear her scream from the closet and come to her aid.
On the last day of school, Melinda stays late to finish her art project and finishes the course with an A+. As the student body hears the story and realizes the truth about what happened at the party, Melinda goes from social pariah to something of a hero. Mr. Freeman prompts her to tell him her story, helping Melinda to move past the rape.