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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When he is wrongly accused of gravely injuring his baby half-sister, Nikki, thirteen-year-old Branwell loses his power of speech, and only his friend Connor is able to reach him and uncover the truth about what really happe
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Parker hasn't spoken since he watched his father die five years ago. He communicates through writing on slips of paper and keeps track of his thoughts by journaling. A loner, Parker has little interest in school, his classmates, or his future. But everything changes when he meets Zelda, a mysterious young woman with an unusual request: 'treat me like a teenager'"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Never settle for less than the truth," she told him. But when you don't even know your real name, the truth gets a little complicated. It can nestle so close to home it's hard to see. It can even flourish inside a lie. And as Chase Walker discovered, learning the truth about who you are can be as elusive and as magical as chasing fireflies on a summer night. A haunting story about fishing, baseball, home cooking, and other matters of life and death......
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy and Sergeant Detective D.D. Warren have built a task force to follow the digital bread crumbs left behind by deceased serial kidnapper Jacob Ness. When a disturbing piece of evidence is discovered in the hills of Georgia, they bring Flora Dane and true-crime savant Keith Edgar to a small town where something seems to be deeply wrong. What at first looks like a Gothic eeriness soon hardens into something much more...
7) After zero
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Elise leaves homeschooling for public school, she copes by speaking as little as possible, but soon her silence becomes an impediment to friendship and to dealing with family secrets.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A lifetime together. Six months of silence. One last chance. Frank hasn't spoken to his wife Maggie for six months. For weeks they have lived under the same roof, slept in the same bed and eaten at the same table - all without words. Maggie has plenty of ideas as to why her husband has gone quiet. But it will take another heartbreaking turn of events before Frank finally starts to unravel the secrets that have silenced him. Is this where their story...
Author
Publisher
A Yearling Book
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Vacationing on a farm in West Virginia near the haunted glass factory where crazy old Irwin Loop used to make marbles, eleven-year-old Jenna decides to use the place to shock her mute younger brother into talking.
10) Aftershock
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In shock and unable to speak after being in a car accident in Oregon which has killed his parents, seventeen-year-old Adam journeys across the country to his home in Rhode Island.
11) Finn
Author
Publisher
McElderry
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Unable to speak after his parents and sister are killed in a plane crash, sixteen-year-old Finn comes to stay with his grandmother on her Vermont farm, where his friendship with a neighbor, the activities of local drug dealers, and the actions of a hybrid wolf force him to deal with his grief.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Billy, recently deceased, keeps an eye on his best friend, fourteen-year-old Eddie, who has added to his home and school problems by becoming mute, and helps him stand up to a conservative minister and English teacher who is orchestrating a censorship challenge.
14) Pet
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pet is here to hunt a monster. Are you brave enough to look? There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with the lesson that the city is safe for everyone. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature who some might call monstrous but, in reality, is anything but, she must reconsider what she's been told. Pet has emerged from one of her mother's paintings to hunt a true monster--and...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
English
Description
Unable to speak for eight years after her father's abandonment, 14-year-old Iz takes a ferry around her coastal Rhode Island home as a therapeutic exercise and wonders at dark community secrets amid preparations for an annual festival.
16) Bro: a novel
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Young Tug Dockery witnesses a brutal act by his grandfather that leaves him unable to speak, so when his parents die, Tug's beloved older brother feels compelled to escape from a hellish labor camp to rescue him from their grandfather's Florida cattle ranch.
17) Flying solo
Author
Publisher
Dell Yearling
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Rachel, having chosen to be mute following the sudden death of a classmate, shares responsibility with the other sixth-graders who decide not to report that the substitute teacher failed to show up.
18) The silent storm
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Alyssa has not spoken since seeing her parents die in a hurricane, and now, three years later, another storm threatens the home she shares with her grandfather on Galveston Island.
19) True---(sort of)
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
For most of her eleven years, Delly has been in trouble without knowing why, until her little brother, R.B., and a strange, silent new friend, Ferris, help her find a way to be good--and happy--again.
20) Silent night
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Paige Watts is the ultimate stage mother. The daughter of Hollywood royalty, Paige channels her own acting dreams into making her daughter, Emma, a star. By the age of nine, Emma is playing a central role in a hit TV show. Then everything is shattered by unforeseeable tragedy. Now Emma is living with her aunt Whitney, who had chosen a very different path than her sister. Whitney was always the studious older sister, hating the cult of celebrity that...