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"Seth--a small town journalist raised by foster parents--is assigned to write about a young boy found in a ditch after a car and train collision. As he works to discover the boy's identity, he also finds the story of his own history and the father who gave up everything to get him back"--
2) Shining
Author
Publisher
Silver Whistle
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young girl who has not uttered a sound since birth is shunned by the people in her village, until they realize how special she is.
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Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"Judith can't speak. But when her close-knit community of Roswell Station is attacked by enemies, Judith is forced to choose: continue to live in silence, or recover her voice"--
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Pub. Date
2020.
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"Danny's life is falling apart. He's become a single father to eleven-year-old Will--who hasn't spoken since the death of his mother in a car crash a year earlier--and Danny has just been fired from his construction job. To make matters worse, he's behind on the rent and his nasty landlord is threatening to break his legs if he doesn't pay soon. Danny needs money, and fast. After observing local street performers in a nearby park, Danny spends his...
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Quercus
Pub. Date
2013
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In a world where animals no longer exist, twelve-year old Kester Jaynes sometimes feels like he hardly exists either. Locked away in a home for troubled children, hes told there's something wrong with him. So when he meets a flock of talking pigeons and a bossy cockroach, Kester thinks he's finally gone a bit mad. The pigeons fly Kester to a wild place where the last creatures in the land have survived. A wise stag needs Kester's help and together...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"After Sharkey's best friend commits suicide (or was it an accident?) in front of him, he spends the summer processing his grief on an abandoned beach resort island where his dad is the caretaker"--
Three years ago JC (aka Sharkey) saw his best friend fall off a unfinished Manhattan skyscraper. Suicide, or accident? He's spent the past years withdrawing from his friends, obsessively watching documentaries, and texting his dead friend. This year Sharkey...
8) Real
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Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Sometimes Charity cannot control her body and because she has low-functioning autism, Charity cannot communicate her thoughts to anyone else, even though she feels all of the frustrations, fears, and doubts of a typical thirteen-year-old.
10) Pet
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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In a near-future society that claims to have gotten rid of all monstrous people, a creature emerges from a painting seventeen-year-old Jam's mother created, a hunter from another world seeking a real-life monster.
There are no monsters anymore. In the city of Lucille, Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their lives. Then Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors and claws, who emerges from one of her mother's...
11) Thornhill
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"Parallel plotlines set in different times, one told in text and one in art, inform each other as a young girl unravels the mystery of a ghost next door"--
1982: Mary is a lonely orphan at the Thornhill Institute For Children at the very moment that it's shutting its doors. When her few friends are all adopted or re-homed and she's left to face a volatile bully alone, her revenge will have a lasting effect on the bully, on Mary, and on Thornhill...
12) Jubilee
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
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"--
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Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2020]
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"Nia Imani is a woman out of place and outside of time. Decades of travel through the stars are condensed into mere months for her, though the years continue to march steadily onward for everyone she has ever known. Her friends and lovers have aged past her, and all she has left is work. Alone and adrift, she lives for only the next paycheck, until the day she meets a mysterious boy, fallen from the sky. A boy, broken by his past. The scarred child...
14) After zero
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Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
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.
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When he is wrongly accused of gravely injuring his baby half-sister, 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 happened.
16) I can't tell you
Author
Publisher
Graphia
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
While fighting with his best friend and college roommate over a girl, Jake says something he regrets, then begins communicating only through notes and letters, but when he wants to tell the girl how he really feels about her, his silence and penchant for puns get in the way.
17) Flying solo
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Publisher
Dell Yearling
Pub. Date
2000, c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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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.
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
©2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
For most of her eleven years, Delly has been in trouble without knowing why, until her little brother, RB, and a strange, silent new friend, Ferris, help her find a way to be good--and happy--again.
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"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...
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