Cujec, Carol
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CUJYang, Kao Kalia
Summary: "In this moving true story, Kao Kalia Yang shares her experiences as a Hmong refugee child navigating life at home and school in America while carrying the weight of her selective mutism"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2024
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Summary: "Seth--a small town journalist raised by foster parents--is assigned to write about a young boy found in a ditch after a car and train collision. As he works to discover the boy's identity, he also finds the story of his own history and the father who gave up everything to get him back"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MARFaulkner, Matt
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FAUCasanova, Mary.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CASEmezi, Akwaeke
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Make Me a World 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC EMESummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Ralph Edwards Films 1997
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Summary: There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. But when 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, she must reconsider what she's been told.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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Summary: "Fifteen-year-old Tess Turner of Manchester, England, decides to stop speaking in the wake of discovering a heartbreaking family secret"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC PITBuyea, Rob
Summary: Twelve-year-old Thea, devastated after seeing her best friend die, begins to open to the possibility of new friendships and forgiveness, and comes to believe in what cannot be fully explained.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BUYLaFleur, Suzanne M.
Summary: 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 years earlier who faced a similar problem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LAFHannigan, Katherine.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HANSepahban, Lois.
Summary: Near the start of World War II, young Manami, her parents, and Grandfather are evacuated from their home and sent to Manzanar, an ugly, dreary internment camp in the desert for Japanese-American citizens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SEPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SEPBerry, Julie
Summary: "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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BERGould-Bourn, James
Summary: "Danny's life is falling apart. He's become a single father to eleven-year-old Will--who hasn't spoken since the death of his mother in a car crash a year earlier--and Danny has just been fired from his construction job. To make matters worse, he's behind on the rent and his nasty landlord is threatening to break his legs if he doesn't pay soon. Danny needs money, and fast. After observing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC GOUHeaberlin, Julia
Summary: "A seasoned cop's interest in a mysterious one-eyed girl takes her back to the worst night of her life in this fast-paced thriller from the internationally bestselling author of Black-Eyed Susans. They call her Angel. Found on the side of a remote highway, half-dead and blowing wishes in a field of dandelions, the young girl refuses to speak. No one knows who she is or where she came from--only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZAMArshi, Mona
Summary: Ruby gives up talking at a young age. Her mother isn't always there to notice; she comes and goes and goes and comes, until, one day, she doesn't. Silence becomes Ruby's refuge, sheltering her from the weather of her mother's mental illness and a pressurized suburban atmosphere.
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Publisher / Publication Date: And Other Stories 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARSChan, Crystal.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHAGiff, Patricia Reilly
Summary: "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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2016
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Giff 2016Greaves, Abbie
Summary: "By all appearances, Frank and Maggie share a happy, loving marriage. But for the past six months, they have not spoken. Not a sentence, not a single word. Maggie isn't sure what, exactly, provoked Frank's silence, though she has a few ideas... Then Frank finds Maggie collapsed in the kitchen, unconscious, an empty package of sleeping pills on the table. Rushed to the hospital, she is placed in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREJimenez, Simon
Summary: "Nia Imani is a woman out of place and outside of time. Decades of travel through the stars are condensed into mere months for her, though the years continue to march steadily onward for everyone she has ever known. Her friends and lovers have aged past her, and all she has left is work. Alone and adrift, she lives for only the next paycheck, until the day she meets a mysterious boy, fallen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Jimenez 2020Thompson, Sam
Summary: Wolfstongue tells the story of a boy with speech problems who enters a hidden world of talking animals. When he befriends a family of wolves who have been enslaved by scheming, articulate foxes, the boy must face his own struggle with words to help the wolves win back their freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Island Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC THOPhillips, Jayne Anne
Summary: "In 1874, in the wake of the Civil War, eleven-year-old ConaLee and her mother arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia. They're delivered to the hospital's entrance by Papa--an abusive veteran who forces himself into their lives--after ConaLee's mother, who hasn't spoken in a year, grows even more withdrawn. Before he departs, Papa assigns them new identities and demands...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PHI1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC PHI