She told me that she already knows who she will be passing it on to. I’m asking her to sign her name on the inside cover and then pass it on to someone else with instructions to do the same thing. I received an email and will be mailing this book out free of charge to Betsy. Here is a way we can help spread the word about this topic.Įarlier today, I asked if anyone wanted to read it and then pass it along.

We can help ourselves and others feel better and more connected.” We can stop the bullying and gossip that hurts so many people. It’s also a story about how we can take action individually or with our friends to make our schools and communities better places for everyone. “The story is about how harmful our words can be. It had a plain white cover with raised text on the front and back cover. Speechless by Hannah Harrington is beautifully bound. That is why I am thankful for books like this one. When bullying is done with secrets, gossip, shunning, and other silent ways, it can go unnoticed. We often see boys bullying each other because they do it physically. I think this is an issue that really needs to be addressed. This is a great novel for teenage girls to read. So she decides that since her words have hurt so many people, she just won’t speak anymore. She wishes she could take back her words. She just throws words around with reckless abandon. The novel is told from the bully’s point of view, but it’s hard to see her as a bully. She shares a secret that incites violence, almost gets somebody killed, and in the process isolates her from her peers. That one secret had far reaching implications for quite a few people. In fact, she doesn’t see any need to keep them whatsoever.

The main character, Chelsea, has a really hard time keeping secrets. Speechless is a novel by Hannah Harrington that explores this issue. It’s easy to blurt something out that you really have no right to share, something that can hurt someone else, something that is probably better left unsaid. Sometimes we don’t stop to think about how much power our words have.

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