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1) Pet
Author
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
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
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
510L
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Steffi doesn't talk. Rhys can't hear. They understand each other perfectly. Love isn't always a lightning strike. Sometimes it's the rumbling roll of thunder... Steffi has been a selective mute for most of her life--she's been silent for so long that she feels completely invisible. But Rhys, the new boy at school, sees her. He's deaf, and her knowledge of basic sign language means that she's assigned to look after him. To Rhys it doesn't matter that...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel/prose hybrid which tells the story of a young Japanese American man who leaves his family in the Manzanar internment camp to fight in the European theater during World War II, and of his ten-year-old sister who, frustrated over her brother risking his life for the government that imprisoned them, decides to stop talking until he returns.
5) Real
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Raised by an unstable father who keeps constantly on the move, Sam Border has long been the voice of his younger brother, Riddle, but everything changes when Sam meets Emily Bell and, welcomed by her family, the brothers are faced with normalcy for the first time.
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"--Provided by publisher.
8) The hunted
Author
Series
Enemy volume 6
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Physical Desc
454 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The sickness struck people sixteen and older. First it twisted their minds; next it ravaged their bodies. Now the sickos roam the streets, crazed and hungry for young flesh. Ella's friend had told her that the country would be safer than the city. They were wrong. Now they're dead, and Ella's all alone--alone, that is, except for her silent rescuer, Scarface. But she doesn't even know if he's a kid or a grown-up. Back in London, Ed is determined...
10) The last wild
Author
Series
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
In a world where animals no longer exist, Kester Jaynes feels like he hardly exists either. He's been locked away in a home for troubled children and cannot speak. Then one night some talking pigeons come to help him escape-- and the animals need him to save them too.
11) What comes next
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Thea and her family are moving to a new town for a fresh start--her parents' bright idea. To Thea, it feels like running away. She lost her best friend, Charlie, in a tragic accident, and in the painful aftermath, she has gone mute. Her two younger sisters, however, are excited about moving, especially after their dad promises that the family will get a rescue puppy. This doesn't change Thea's mind, though, until Jack-Jack bounds...
Author
Lexile measure
710L
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....
13) Stain
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
519 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Lyra--a princess incapable of speech or sound--is cast out of her kingdom of daylight by her wicked aunt. A witch saves her life, steals her memories, and raises her in an enchanted forest-- disguised as a boy known only as Stain. In Lyra's rival kingdom, the prince of thorns and night is dying, and the only way for him to break his curse is to wed the princess of daylight. As Lyra rediscovers her identity, an impostor princess prepares to steal her...
14) Flying solo
Author
Lexile measure
590L
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.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
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'"--
16) Thornhill
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
533 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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...
17) Frozen
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Unable to speak or remember the events surrounding her mother's mysterious death eleven years earlier, sixteen-year-old Sadie Rose, the foster child of a corrupt senator in 1920s northern Minnesota, struggles to regain her voice, memory, and identity.
18) Jubilee
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
540L
Physical Desc
149 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"--
19) Midnight & Moon
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
AD 530L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A girl and her horses learn to communicate from each other and eventually save each other in ways, both small and large." -- Provided by publisher.