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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
My name is Tess Turner--at least, that's what I've always been told. I have a voice but it isn't mine. It used to say things so I'd fit in, to please my parents, to please my teachers. It used to tell the universe I was something I wasn't. It lied. It never occurred to me that everyone else was lying too. Fifteen-year-old Tess doesn't mean to become mute. At first, she's just too shocked to speak. And who wouldn't be' Discovering your whole life has...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
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
Description
"A seasoned cop's interest in a mysterious one-eyed girl takes her back to the worst night of her life in this fast-paced thriller from the internationally bestselling author of Black-Eyed Susans. They call her Angel. Found on the side of a remote highway, half-dead and blowing wishes in a field of dandelions, the young girl refuses to speak. No one knows who she is or where she came from--only that she fell from the sky. It's Wyatt who finds her...
29) Flip-flop girl
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Uprooted following the death of their father, nine-year-old Vinnie and her five-year-old brother, Mason, cope in different ways--one in silence--but both with the help of Lupe, the flip-flop girl.
Author
Publisher
Plantlovegrow
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"As Lola starts school, something strange happens. Her words disappear! Now Lola must find new ways to give her words the courage to come back. A fun and practical introduction for children to different techniques of anxiety management."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Etan has stopped speaking since his mother left. His father and grandfather don't know how to help him. His friends have given up on him. When Etan is asked to deliver a grocery order to the outskirts of town, he realizes he's at the home of Malia Agbayani, also known as the creature. Malia stopped going to school when her acute eczema spread to her face, and the bullying became too much. Soon, other kids tease Etan for being friends with the creature....
33) Finding Stinko
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007.
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.
34) Jubilee
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Judith stopped talking long ago when Mom left her in the care of beloved Aunt Cora. Going back into a regular fifth-grade classroom won't be easy, but she has her Dog and new friend who will help her through"--
35) Aftershock
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2006.
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifth-grader Cally Louise Fisher stops talking, partly because her father and brother never speak of her mother who died a year earlier, but visions of her mother, friendships with a homeless man and a disabled boy, and a huge dog ensure that she still communicates.
37) The dark wild
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Kester Jaynes, who has been locked away at a school for troubled children, is called upon to save the last animals living in a post-apocalyptic world where disease has killed most living things.
38) LightLand
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
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.
39) Annabelle's wish
Author
Publisher
Golden Books Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A little calf who longs to fly like Santa's reindeer unselfishly gives her Christmas voice to Billy.