Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Edition
First edition.
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'"--
4) Flying solo
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
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.
5) The target
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Escaping unwanted media attention after a notorious incident, Ramsey Hunt retreats into the solitude of a cabin high in the Rockies. But his isolation is shattered when he finds a small girl unconscious and hurt in the forest. When strangers suddenly come into his private meadow, their intent to kill, she can't help him. She's mute. Molly Santera, the little girl's mother, catches up with Ramsey and her daughter, mistaking him for the kidnapper....
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Formats
Description
January 1988. Martin Pistorius, aged twelve, fell inexplicably sick. First he lost his voice and stopped eating. Then he slept constantly and shunned human contact. Doctors were mystified. Within eighteen months he was mute and wheelchair-bound. Martin's parents were told an unknown degenerative disease left him with the mind of a baby and less than two years to live. Martin was moved to care centers for severely disabled children. The stress and...
9) Bird
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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.
10) Pet
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
There are no monsters anymore. In the city of Lucille, Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. Then Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors and claws, who emerges from one of her mother's paintings and a drop of Jam's blood. Pet has come to hunt a monster-- and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption's house. How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist? --...
11) Stain
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Language
English
Description
Lyra, the silent princess of daylight, must find a way to make noise and pass a series of tests to stop a pretender from stealing her betrothed prince and crown.
12) Devoted
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Woody Bookman hasn't spoken a word in his eleven years of life. Not when his father died in a freak accident. Not when his mother, Megan, tells him she loves him. For Megan, keeping her boy safe and happy is what matters. But Woody believes a monstrous evil was behind his father's death and now threatens him and his mother. And he's not alone in his thoughts. An ally unknown to him is listening. A uniquely gifted dog with a heart as golden as his...
13) This tender land
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on these lists
10 to Try - Peer Pressure
Book Club Selections and Suggestions
Picks from the Saginaw Library Book Club
Book Club Selections and Suggestions
Picks from the Saginaw Library Book Club
Formats
Description
"In the summer of 1932, on the banks of Minnesota's Gilead River, the Lincoln Indian Training School is a pitiless place where Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is aslo home to Odie O'Banion, a lively orphan boy whose exploits contantly earn him the superintendent's wrath. Odie and his brother, Albert, are the only white faces among hundreds of Native American children at the school. After...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Edition
First edition.
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.
16) After zero
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Language
English
Appears on list
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." --
17) Real
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story.
My name is Charity. I am thirteen years old. I love sour gummies and pepperoni pizza. That last part no one knows because I have not spoken a sentence since I was born. Each dawning day, I live in terror of my unpredictable body movements which no one understands.
Even with incredible math skills and a memory for perfect details, Charity is a person with disabilities. She can't speak and struggles to control her body but...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Silla, seventeen, and Nori, four, arrive at their aunt's home, it's immediately clear that the manor is cursed. The creaking of the house and the stillness of the woods surrounding them would be enough of a sign, but there are secrets that Silla can't ignore. Who is the beautiful boy that's appeared from the woods? Who is the man that her little sister sees, but no one else? And why does it seem that, ever since they arrived, the trees have been...
20) Jubilee
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Edition
First Edition.
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"--
In Texas Group Catalog
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by MetroShare Consortium can be requested from other Texas Group Catalog libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request