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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.
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English
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Billy, recently deceased, keeps an eye on his best friend, fourteen-year-old Eddie, who has added to his home and school problems by becoming mute, and helps him stand up to a conservative minister and English teacher who is orchestrating a censorship challenge.
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English
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"On the sharp crags of tiny Tillings Island lies the secret of Izabella Rae Haywood's sixth birthday. That night, her father vanished, taking her voice, and the truth of what really happened along with him"--
Tillings Island, Rhode Island, witnessed the biggest event of Izabella Rae Haywood's life. On her sixth birthday her father left... and took her voice with him. Eight years later in the summer of 1974, Iz and her mother board the ferry to Tillings...
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English
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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.
Can friendship save you?
The day Ferris Boyd moves to town, Delly Pattison is sure a special surpresent (a present that is a surprise) is on its way. Instead, Delly ends up in even more trouble than usual.
The Boyds' arrival in River Bluffs means big...
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English
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"FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy and Sergeant Detective D.D. Warren have built a task force to follow the digital bread crumbs left behind by deceased serial kidnapper Jacob Ness. When a disturbing piece of evidence is discovered in the hills of Georgia, they bring Flora Dane and true-crime savant Keith Edgar to a small town where something seems to be deeply wrong. What at first looks like a Gothic eeriness soon hardens into something much more...
9) Blind outlaw
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Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1980
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English
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A blind outlaw horse is tamed by a boy who can not speak.
10) Blind outlaw
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Publisher
Scholastic Book Services
Pub. Date
c1980
Language
English
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A blind outlaw horse is tamed by a boy who can not speak.
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Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
12) Green boy
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Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
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English
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Twelve-year-old Trey and his seven-year-old brother Lou, who does not speak, cross the barrier between two worlds, that of their island in the Bahamas, and a land called Pangaia, and play a mysterious role in restoring the natural environment in both places.
13) Hard face moon
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Publisher
Filter Press, LLC
Pub. Date
�2008
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English
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In 1864, Hides Inside, a mute thirteen-year-old Cheyenne, wants nothing more than to be taken seriously as a hunter and warrior, but after witnessing the Sand Creek Massacre he must choose for himself between fighting the brutal white soldiers or working toward peace.
14) Straw sense
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1993
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English
Description
An old man who makes dolls breaks through the loneliness of a young boy who doesn't speak.
15) The silent storm
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Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1993
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Alyssa has not spoken since seeing her parents die in a hurricane, and now, three years later, another storm threatens the home she shares with her grandfather on Galveston Island.
16) Bird boy
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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c1999
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English
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Chang, a mute Chinese boy whose father uses cormorants to fish, is pleased when he is finally old enough to help with the Big Catch and the raising of a new bird.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1995
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English
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After he is orphaned and has his tongue cut out in a clash with the bullying sons of a Welsh noble, Evyn is sold as a slave and serves many masters, from the gracious Lady Swan Neck to the valiant Harold Godwinson, England's last Saxon king.
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English
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"Connor is sure his best friend, Branwell, couldn't have hurt Branwell's baby half sister, Nikki. But Nikki lies in a coma, and Branwell is in a juvenile behavioral center, suspected of a horrible crime and unable to utter the words to tell what really happened. Connor is the only one who might be able to break through Branwell's wall of silence. But how can he prove Branwell didn't commit the unspeakable act of which he's accused - when Branwell...
19) Who's there?
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Morrow Junior Books
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English
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When fourteen-year-old Drew and her mute younger brother come to live with their father's estranged relatives after their parents' sudden death, they learn that the house is haunted by ghosts and discover a deadly family secret.
20) Paper wishes
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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Manami does not realize how peaceful her life on Bainbridge Island, Washington, is until the day it all changes. It's 1942, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and Manami and her family are forced by the government to leave their home by the sea and join other Japanese Americans at a prison camp in the California desert. Manami is sad to go, but, even worse, her family must give her dog, Yujiin, to a neighbor to take care...