The last codfish

By J. D. McNeill

Subjects: Grief, Single-parent families, Family life, fiction, Fishing, Elective Mutism, Fiction, Children's fiction, Selective mutism, Juvenile fiction, Teachers, Friendship

Description: Fifteen-year-old Tut lives in squalor with his fisherman father on the coast of Maine, but his English teacher and a new neighbor girl are determined to turn his life around and force him to speak, which he has not done since his mother's death.