Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the beautiful true story of a nonverbal boy moved to speech at his first Mozart concert, this picture book is a testament to the power of art and the boundless joy it can bring. When Grandfather comes to take his grandson to a concert, Ronan is quiet as they leave the house, quiet in the car, and quiet at the concert hall. But when the performance is over and the beautiful music fades out at last, Ronan opens his mouth...and lets out...
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
"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"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"Etan has stopped speaking since his mother left. His father and grandfather don't know how to help him. His friends have given up on him. When Etan is asked to deliver a grocery order to the outskirts of town, he realizes he's at the home of Malia Agbayani, also known as the creature. Malia stopped going to school when her acute eczema spread to her face, and the bullying became too much. Soon, other kids tease Etan for being friends with the creature....
4) Pet
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
10 Worth Trying: Young Adult Fantasy [High School Readers]
Black Lives Matter: Teen Stories
The Disability Readathon
More Lists...
Black Lives Matter: Teen Stories
The Disability Readathon
More Lists...
Formats
Description
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. Pet has come to hunt a monster, and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption's house. Jam...
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Autism Awareness Month - Picture Books
Picture Books that Raise Awareness of the Disability Experience
Picture Books that Raise Awareness of the Disability Experience
Description
A girl with autism who almost never speaks demonstrates how easily she communicates with her brother and grandmother through facial expressions, gestures, flashcards, and drawings.
8) Thornhill
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"Parallel plotlines set in different times, one told in text and one in art, inform each other as a young girl unravels the mystery of a ghost next door"--
1982: Mary is a lonely orphan at the Thornhill Institute For Children at the very moment that it's shutting its doors. When her few friends are all adopted or re-homed and she's left to face a volatile bully alone, her revenge will have a lasting effect on the bully, on Mary, and on Thornhill...
9) Stain
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After Lyra-a princess incapable of speech or sound-is cast out of her kingdom of daylight by her wicked aunt, a witch saves her life, steals her memories, and raises her in an enchanted forest . . . disguised as a boy known only as Stain. Meanwhile, in Lyra's rival kingdom, the prince of thorns and night is dying, and the only way for him to break his curse is to wed the princess of daylight-for she is his true equal. As Lyra finds her way back to...
11) The hunted
Author
Series
Enemy series (Charlie Higson) volume 6
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Ella is out in the country, alone now except for her silent rescuer, Scarface, about whom she knows nothing, while Ed leaves London on a dangerous quest, determined to find Ella and keep his promise to Small Sam that he will reunite sister and brother.
13) Jubilee
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"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"--
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
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.
17) M�eo and B�e
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"Eleven-year-old B�e hasn't spoken a word since her mother left. She hangs on to the hope that one day they will be reunited, but after two years of waiting, it's becoming more difficult. Her father--who is now frail and helpless after a stroke--can do little to protect her from her stepmother, Big Mother, who treats B�e like an animal and a servant. Thankfully, B�e has a secret friend, her little kitten M�eo, to comfort her in the worst of...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
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.
19) Paper wishes
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
Sisters Silla, seventeen, and Nori, four, are trapped in their aunt's cursed manor and can only escape with the help of a mysterious boy.
When Silla, seventeen, and Nori, four, arrive at their aunt's home, it's immediately clear that the manor is cursed. The creaking of the house and the stillness of the woods surrounding them would be enough of a sign, but there are secrets that Silla can't ignore. Who is the beautiful boy that's appeared from the...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request