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[2013], Juvenile, Joanna Cotler Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "One day a young couple wakes to find a boy asleep on their porch. Unable to speak, the boy cannot explain his history. What kind of people would leave their child with strangers? All John and Marta know is that they have been chosen to care for this boy. As their connection to him grows, they embrace his exuberant spirit and talents. The three of them blossom into an unlikely family, but how long can their happiness last?"-- From dust jacket flap.
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[2013], Pre-adolescent, Joanna Cotler Books Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When John and Marta find a mute boy asleep on their porch, they take him in and begin to care for the boy like he's their own. As the weeks pass and the trio becomes an unlikely family, the couple is torn between finding the boy's parents, and hoping that they never return for him.
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[2013], Pre-adolescent, Joanna Cotler Books Call No: FIC CRE Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When John and Marta find a mute boy asleep on their porch, they take him in and begin to care for the boy like he's their own. As the weeks pass and the trio becomes an unlikely family, the couple is torn between finding the boy's parents, and hoping that they never return for him.
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[2013], Pre-adolescent, Joanna Cotler Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Who would leave a boy on the porch of strangers?" John and Marta wonder, but the boy never speaks. Soon enough, they're hoping whoever it was never returns.
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[2013], Pre-adolescent, Joanna Cotler Books Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When John and Marta find a mute boy asleep on their porch, they take him in and begin to care for the boy like he's their own. As the weeks pass and the trio becomes an unlikely family, the couple is torn between finding the boy's parents, and hoping that they never return for him.
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2013., Pre-adolescent, Joanna Cotler Books Call No: FIC CREECH Edition: First edition. Genre: Realistic fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When John and Marta find a mute boy asleep on their porch, they take him in and begin to care for the boy like he's their own. As the weeks pass and the trio becomes an unlikely family, the couple is torn between finding the boy's parents, and hoping that they never return for him.
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2017., Juvenile, Candlewick Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Taken in by a poor family in a rural village after the death of her father, Sunflower bonds with the family's only child, Bronze, who has not spoken since being traumatized by a terrible fire.
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2017., Juvenile, Candlewick Press Call No: FIC Cao Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Taken in by a poor family in a rural village after the death of her father, Sunflower bonds with the family's only child, Bronze, who has not spoken since being traumatized by a terrible fire.
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[2017], Juvenile, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: Easy GAIMAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The parents of pearl-eyed princess Cinnamon offer a reward to anyone who can help their daughter speak, a plea answered by an exotic tiger who arrives at the palace, armed with knowledge of the world.
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c2012., Ecco Call No: MYSTERY Edition: 1st Ecco paperback Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Living deep within a cove in the Appalachians of North Carolina during World War I, Laurel Shelton finally finds the happiness she deserves in Walter, a mysterious stranger who is mute, but their love cannot protect them from a devastating secret.
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c2011., Adolescent, Razorbill Call No: Historical FIC Ostlere Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: On the day that Maya and her father arrive in India from Canada to bring her mother's ashes to their final resting place, Indira Gandhi is assassinated. In the chaos Maya loses her father and she must trust a young man, Sandeep, to help her find her father.
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2015., Juvenile, Tamarind Call No: 823.92 Availability:4 of 4 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Monsters are in the eye of the beholder. Rosa suffers from a rare condition that renders her mute. She lives on the strange island of Mirasol where the rain never seems to stop. In the gloom of the island, its superstitious population are haunted by all sorts of fears ...they shun people who suffer from Rosa's condition, believing them to be monsters. So Rosa must live hidden away in an isolated house with its back to the rest of the world, with only the internet for a social life. But Rosa has no desire to leave Mirasol. This is where her mother died and every night she lights a candle on the windowsill. The islanders believe this is the way to summon ghosts, and Rosa wants her mother back. One day she is befriended by a boy online who calls himself Ansel95 - and she quickly realizes that this is one friendship that can take place in the real world. Can she really trust him? What does he want from her? And then Mother turns up at the front door.
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Ã2016., Adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: Young Adult FIC MIL Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Alice is fifteen, with hair as red as fire and skin as pale as bone. Something inside Alice is broken: she remembers words but struggles to speak them. Still, Alice knows words are for sharing, so she pins them to posters in tucked-away places: railway waiting rooms, fish-and-chip shops, quiet corners. Manny is sixteen, with a scar from shoulder to elbow. Something inside Manny is broken: he was once a child soldier, forced to do terrible, violent things. But in a new land with new people who will care for him, he spends time exploring on foot. And in his pocket, he carries a poem he scooped up. And he knows the words by heart. When Manny and Alice meet, their relationship brings the beginning of love and healing."--OCLC.
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2018., Adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: Realistic FIC Millard Edition: First U.S. edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Alice, a fifteen-year-old mute girl, is obsessed with words, knowing that they are beautiful and are for sharing. Manny, a sixteen-year-old boy, has a scar from his shoulder down to his elbow--a relic from his days as a child soldier. When Manny finds a poem written by Alice, he knows he must find her--and if they find each other, their relationship may bring them the beginning of love and healing.
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c2008, Ecco Call No: [Fic] Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Series Title: Oprah's book clubSummary Note: Edgar Sawtelle, born mute, lives contentedly on his parents' Wisconsin farm helping raise a unique breed of dogs developed by his grandfather to embody the qualities of companionship and wisdom, but the death of his father and his belief that his uncle had something to do with it, force him to flee to the forest with only three yearlings for companionship, where he struggles to survive until the need to confront his uncle leads him home again.
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[2018]., Pre-adolescent, Chronicle Books Call No: REALISTIC F DIE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Angry that her father has left, twelve-year-old Alice swears that she will live in her family's old Renaissance tent until he agrees to return; but after she meets her mute four-year-old neighbor Piper she finds herself becoming involved in the child's life--and when she hears the little girl speak a word for the first time in years she sets out to prove to Piper's parents that the dismal diagnosis they received for their daughter may be all wrong.
