From: Kathleen Horning <horning>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 08:25:53 -0600

Thanks, Linda, Jen and Beth, for sharing your own insights about
"Speak," as well as tje insights of some teen readers. It's nice to know that teens are already beginning to find these books and take them to heart.

Dean, I really appreciated your very eloquent comments comparing
"Speak" and "Hard Love." In addition to using an inventive writing style for the book itself, Ellen Wittlinger explores, through her teen characters, so many different kinds of writing and the different levels of truth we dare to tell ourselves and each other, through John and Marisol's 'zines, their unpublished personal writing, and, most poignantly, the letters John writes his parents that he never intends to mail.

Kathleen T. Horning (horning at education.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center University of Wisconsin-School of Education 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 North Park St. Madison, WI 53706 608&3930 FAX: 608&2I33
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