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61) 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.
62) Bird Boy
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Chang, a mute Chinese boy whose father uses cormorants to fish, is pleased when he is finally old enough to help with the Big Catch and the raising of a new bird.
64) 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.
65) 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.
66) 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.
Author
Series
Zora and me volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston's childhood with her best friend Carrie, in Eatonville, Florida, as they learn about life, death, and the differences between truth, lies, and pretending. Includes an annotated bibliography of the works of Zora Neale Hurston, a short biography of the author, and information about Eatonville, Florida.
72) 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
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Siena's visions of the past intensify when her family moves to the Maine coast hoping her little brother will begin speaking, and she connects with residents of the house from many years earlier who faced a similar problem.
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.
76) Bird
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jewel was born on the day her brother Bird died and lives in a house of silence and secrets, but a new boy in her Iowa town may help find the answers Jewel wants despite her Jamaican grandfather's warning that he is a "duppy," a malevolent spirit.
Author
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
Although mute since the death of his parents in a fire, a young Nez Percé Indian boy has a happy and adventurous life with his adopted family until the growing conflict between the white man and the Indians erupts into war in the summer of 1877 and changes his life forever.
Author
Pub. Date
1995.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After he is orphaned and has his tongue cut out in a clash with the bullying sons of a Welsh noble, Evyn is sold as a slave and serves many masters, from the gracious Lady Swan Neck to the valiant Harold Godwinson, England's last Saxon king.
80) Tiny infinities
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Angry that her father has left, twelve-year-old Alice swears that she will live in her family's old Renaissance tent until he agrees to return; but after she meets her mute four-year-old neighbor Piper she finds herself becoming involved in the child's life--and when she hears the little girl speak a word for the first time in years she sets out to prove to Piper's parents that the dismal diagnosis they received for their daughter may be all wrong....
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