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Melinda needs a place to feel safe, so she turns an abandoned janitor closet into a home away from her actual home

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In the story Melinda is a very good student, but she gets a very bad report card, and her parents are very upset with her.

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The significance of this picture is that Melinda is considered the outcast, girls bully her because she had called the cops at a party.

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Melinda has just stared a new school and not many like her because she called the cops at a party. After getting rapped she now has to see that person and everybody else that will not talk to her. Now she feels like an outcast every single day.

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The tone is that the author wants to teach people how serious this problem rape is, which it is occurring more and more daily. The author wants to show that you should talk to someone before someone you know is the next victim.

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Rachel and Melinda have known each other since grade school, and have been best friends. Melinda wanted to tell Rachel everything, but Rachel turned against her after calling the cops. Everyone including Rachel thinks that she called the cops so she could get them in trouble.

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Andy Evans is the Senior that has raped Melinda. He continues to mess with her and tease, and he continues to sexually other girls.

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Melinda Sordino is the main character. During the summer before starting a new school she goes to a party and gets raped. She is now facing very bad depressing failing classes, nail and lip biting.

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The setting is being taken place in Syracuse, New York. Melinda Sordino and the other kids go to school at Merryweather High School.

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Nobody will talk to Melinda, and she has a big secret. She learns that people are cruel and places are scary. The secret is about the boy named Andy. Now Andy will try to go after Melinda's ex-best friend. Melinda does warn Andy about what he did.