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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.
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.
7) 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
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.
10) 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...
11) 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'"--
13) 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...
14) 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.
15) 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"--
16) Annabelle's wish
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A lovable calf named Annabelle, who wishes to fly like one of Santa's reindeer, makes friends with Billy, a young boy who cannot talk, and a friendly bunch of barnyard animals. Annabelle shows everyone the true meaning of Christmas by making one very special wish come true.
17) After zero
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 244 cm
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.
18) Orphan eleven
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1939, after cruel treatment at her orphanage renders her mute, Lucy runs away and joins the circus, working with the elephants and unaware that the orphanage matrons are hunting for her.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
800L
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Writing poetry helps fifth-grader Harper Lee Morgan cope with her father's absence, being evicted, and having to skip school to care for her brother while their mother works, and things look even brighter after she befriends a mute girl and a kindly disabled woman.
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
AD 360L
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A girl with autism who almost never speaks demonstrates how easily she communicates with her brother and grandmother through facial expressions, gestures, flashcards, and drawings.