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41) What comes next
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Thea, devastated after seeing her best friend die, begins to open to the possibility of new friendships and forgiveness, and comes to believe in what cannot be fully explained.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Ellen's stopped talking. She thinks she may have killed her dad. Her brother's barricaded himself in his room. Their mother, a successful actress, carries on as normal. We're a family of light! she insists. But darkness seeps in everywhere and in their separate worlds each of them longs for togetherness. Welcome to America is a scintillating portrait of a sensitive, strong-willed child in the throes of trauma, a family on the brink of implosion,...
45) Clair-de-Lune
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
A talking mouse takes a talented young ballet dancer to an enchanted world where she explores, with the help of a kind monk, why she cannot speak.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Writing poetry helps fifth-grader Harper Lee Morgan cope with her father's absence, being evicted, and having to skip school to care for her brother while their mother works, and things look even brighter after she befriends a mute girl and a kindly disabled woman.
47) Who's there?
Author
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old Drew and her mute younger brother come to live with their father's estranged relatives after their parents' sudden death, they discover that the house is haunted by ghosts and a deadly family secret.
48) Finding Stinko
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Having spent his life trying to escape the foster care system, eventually becoming mute to keep out of trouble, twelve-year-old Newboy finally hits the streets, where a discarded ventriloquist's dummy gives him back his voice and his hope.
49) Annabelle's wish
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1997]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A little calf who longs to fly like Santa's reindeer unselfishly gives her Christmas voice to Billy.
50) Lightland
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lottie and her best friend Lewis, who speaks only to her, find themselves in a world called LightLand, where they confront the dreaded NightKing, a dangerous being who experiments with the energies of memory.
55) Green boy
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Trey and his seven-year-old brother Lou, who does not speak, cross the barrier between two worlds, that of their island in the Bahamas, and a land called Pangaia, and play a mysterious role in restoring the natural environment in both places.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Melkorka, an Irish princess, is kidnapped by Russian slave traders and not only learns how to survive but to challenge some of the brutality of her captors, who are fascinated by her apparent muteness and the possibility that she is enchanted.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After their mother falls mysteriously ill, eleven-year-old twins Gus and Leo and their mute younger sister, Ila, learn that they share their mother's ability to transform into animals, and to defeat the evil King of the Black Lakes, they must harness this newfound power.
60) Paper wishes
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Near the start of World War II, young Manami, her parents, and Grandfather are evacuated from their home and sent to Manzanar, an ugly, dreary internment camp in the desert for Japanese-American citizens.
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