An absorbing drama about what happens when one of the popular girls becomes the target of her former friends’ bullying. Summary Everyone knows that Chelsea Knot can’t keep a secret, until now. Because the last secret she shared turned her into a social. When Chelsea gets bullied for speaking out against some violent teens, she decides to take a vow of silence. Kidzworld reviews a book about bullying at its.

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I get that they harrngton a rough time and problems themselves, but I really can’t imagine them not wanting to know where their sixteen year-old daughter spent her evenings. Asha, Sam and Andy were all genuinely great people.
Even Chelsea, who does have her noted flaws, becomes someone that the reader can sympathize with as they watch her transformation speechlesx her vow of silence. So, yeah, I had two options: If I’m completely honest, Chelsea’s story would probably have earned a 4 if I had read it any other day, any other week, after any other book. View all 8 comments. And the curiosity propelled me forward sans the expectations.
I was speechkess proud of her cause doing the right thing really is hard when there is such strong peer pressure.

She is the foil to Chelsea. His breakdown was touching and beautiful and sad.
Noah and her love story is more slow and thought-through than Chelsea’s previous actions. But I believe that different can never be bad.
This book explores the repercussions of high school rumours and the problem of bullying, but it still manages to do so in a lighter tone than other novels in the genre I have read. And when it happened I did nothing. I feel like I should give this book to Jamie McGuire, and tell her to read and learn. Which would’ve been fine, if it were a memoir.
Speechless
I loved all the characters: I think this quote perfectly sums up why I liked Chelsea so much. Harrington’s characters are harringfon perfect. Speechless tells the story of loudmouth popular girl Chelsea Knot. Until the party that changes it all.
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Even the bullies have genuine character presence. Nov 17, Ruby Granger rated it liked it.
Sspeechless also touches on the issue of bullying and homophobia, but it was done in a way that doesn’t feel like it’s trying to shove what’s morally right down your throat. We’ve all heard that saying as children, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all,” but very few of us actually live that way.

Chelsea is still quick to judge people and to make assumptions. Rather, an energy misguided. I know this was Chelsea’s story, but I would have loved to read more about Noah’s and Andy’s relationship – so Hannah Harrington, if you ever decide to write this story from their point of view, I’ll definitely buy that book!
Chelsea’s dedication to her harringgon of silence is possibly the strongest thing about her. Best friends with the most popular girl. She wasn’t quite as well-developed as the other characters all we get is that her mother is ill and her father’s away a lotbut I was definitely rooting for her, and I yarrington got quite harringyon when those popular girls pick on her because she’s hanging out with Chelsea.
Although not quite as emotionally intense as Saving June, it’s a truly wonderful novel t Can you imagine not speaking for days?
Speechless : Hannah Harrington :
Ashamed, Chelsea turns them in, but her former friends shun epeechless attack her. So she’s ostracized and put into a position where no one likes her at school or are at least cautious about her in the community. All three are YA, contemporary books I would love to just shove at my future students and force them to read.
