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"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 a medically induced coma while the doctors assess the...
2) Pet
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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In a near-future society that claims to have gotten rid of all monstrous people, a creature emerges from a painting seventeen-year-old Jam's mother created, a hunter from another world seeking a real-life monster.
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Publisher
Greenwillow
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
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.
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Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
©2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
6) Dead silence
Author
Series
Foundlings volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An investigative genealogist and a NYPD detective find their work intertwining in the case of a mute child.
7) Stain
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 29
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.
Author
Series
Last wild volume 1
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Kester Jaynes, who has been locked away at a school for troubled children, is called upon to save the last animals living in a post-apocalyptic world where disease has killed most living things.
9) Paper wishes
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
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
And Other Stories
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
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
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Raised by an unstable father who keeps constantly on the move, Sam Border has long been the voice of his younger brother, Riddle, but everything changes when Sam meets Emily Bell and, welcomed by her family, the brothers are faced with normalcy for the first time.
14) Mèo and Bé
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Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In 1964, before the United States enters the Vietnam War, eleven-year-old Bé and her three-footed kitten Mèo must rise above a broken home and the injustices of war to find the comfort, safety, and love of a found family.
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English
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"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 from the sky. A boy, broken by his past. The scarred child...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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In a near-future society that claims to have gotten rid of all monstrous people, a creature emerges from a painting seventeen-year-old Jam's mother created, a hunter from another world seeking a real-life monster.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"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 local street performers in a nearby park, Danny spends his...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
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...
19) Devoted
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English
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"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...
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Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Princess Yona lives an ideal life as the only princess of her kingdom. Doted on by her father, the king, and protected by her faithful guard Hak, she cherishes the time spent with the man she loves, Su-won. But everything changes on her 16th birthday when tragedy strikes her family! The Kingdom of Kohka triumphs over Sen Province, but Hak is gravely injured and Yona is unable to speak! Meanwhile, while tending to injured soldiers, Yun shows interest...
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