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Ghosts don't get goose bumps Ghosts don't get goose bumps Elvira Woodruff Vacationing on a farm in West Virginia near the haunted glass factory where crazy old Irwin Loop used to make marbles, eleven-year-old Jenna decides to use the place to shock her mute younger brother… OL138030W
A time to keep silent A time to keep silent Gloria Whelan Thirteen-year-old Clair Lothrop's world is falling apart. Her mother has died, and her father spends his evenings shut in his study. In a desperate attempt to get her father's attention, Clair stops … OL14866618W
The silence of murder The silence of murder Dandi Daley Mackall Sixteen-year-old Hope must defend her developmentally disabled brother (who has not spoken a word since he was seven) when he is accused of murdering a beloved high school baseball coach. OL15445355W
True (...Sort Of) True (...Sort Of) Katherine Hannigan For most of her eleven years, Delly has been in trouble without knowing why, until her little brother, R.B., and a strange, silent new friend, Ferris, help her find a way to be good--and happy--again. OL15586794W
Frozen Frozen Mary Casanova 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, … OL16681500W
Lost children of the far islands Lost children of the far islands Emily Raabe After their mother falls mysteriously ill, eleven-year-old twins Gus and Leo and their mute younger sister, Ila, learn that they share their mother's ability to transform into animals, and to defeat … OL17925443W
Shining Shining Julius Lester In a small mountain village, a young girl named Shining is born. The villagers fear and shun her because she doesn't speak, but one day she will win the heart of her people. Newbery Honor author … OL1814457W
Lotería Lotería Mario Alberto Zambrano Using a deck of Lotería cards as her muse, eleven-year-old Luz Castillo, a ward of the state who has retreated into silence, finds each shuffle sparking a random memory that, pieced together, brings … OL18165288W
Listening for Lucca Listening for Lucca Suzanne M. LaFleur Thirteen-year-old Siena's visions of the past intensify when her family moves to the Maine coast hoping her little brother will begin speaking, and she connects with residents of the house from many … OL18166325W
The Only Alien on the Planet The Only Alien on the Planet Kristen D. Randle New town, new school, new friends. It was difficult for Ginny at first, but her senior year is finally starting to feel kind of normal. That is, until she sees him—the beautiful mystery in her Englis… OL1917775W
A quiet kind of thunder A quiet kind of thunder Sara Barnard 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 … OL19731643W
The dark wild The dark wild Piers Torday "After gathering together the Last Wild, the last animals still alive, Kester Jaynes is faced with a new task--facing the Dark Wild, the animals who live underground and want to destroy humankind"-- … OL19993269W
Jessi-cat Jessi-cat Dillon, Jayne (Author of Jessi-cat) Lorcan Dillon was seven years old when his mother, Jayne, first heard him say 'I love you.' The words were not directed at her, but at Jessi-cat, the family pet. Lorcan suffers from autism and select… OL24173297W
Un perro llamado vagabundo Un perro llamado vagabundo Sarah Lean 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… OL24305884W
Twilight Children Twilight Children Torey L. Hayden For decades, former special education teacher Torey Hayden has been a light in the darkness for severely troubled children, and she has chronicled her determined efforts, triumphs, and breakthroughs … OL3510669W
Lucy Forever and Miss Rosetree, Shrinks Lucy Forever and Miss Rosetree, Shrinks Susan Shreve Two sixth graders with a pretend psychiatry practice come upon a small mute child from an orphanage and determine they are going to use all their knowledge to help her to talk. OL488029W
I can't tell you I can't tell you Hillary Frank 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 … OL5707558W
The last codfish The last codfish J. D. McNeill 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, w… OL5732591W
Definitions Definitions Kelly Easton In shock and unable to speak after being in a car accident in Oregon which has killed his parents, seventeen-year-old Adam journeys across the country to his home in Rhode Island. OL5836233W
Flying solo Flying solo Ralph J. Fletcher When the substitute for Mr. "Fab" Fabiano never shows up and his sixth-grade students are on their own, they set out to prove that they can run the class by themselves. With a little ingenuity and so… OL93305W
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