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1) Lotería
Author
Language
English
Description
Using a deck of Lotería cards as her muse, eleven-year-old Luz Castillo, a ward of the state who has retreated into silence, finds each shuffle sparking a random memory that, pieced together, brings into focus the events that led to her present situation.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Parker hasn't spoken since he watched his father die five years ago. He communicates through writing on slips of paper and keeps track of his thoughts by journaling. A loner, Parker has little interest in school, his classmates, or his future. But everything changes when he meets Zelda, a mysterious young woman with an unusual request: 'treat me like a teenager'"--
Author
Language
English
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Description
Frank hasn't spoken to his wife Maggie for six months. For weeks they have lived under the same roof, slept in the same bed and eaten at the same table - all without words. Maggie has plenty of ideas as to why her husband has gone quiet. But it will take another heartbreaking turn of events before Frank finally starts to unravel the secrets that have silenced him. Is this where their story ends? Or is it where it begins?
4) Pet
Author
Language
English
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Description
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
Series
Last wild volume 2
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
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.
Author
Publisher
World Editions
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Ellen's stopped talking. She thinks she may have killed her dad. Her brother's barricaded himself in his room. Their mother, a successful actress, carries on as normal. We're a family of light! she insists. But darkness seeps in everywhere and in their separate worlds each of them longs for togetherness. Welcome to America is a scintillating portrait of a sensitive, strong-willed child in the throes of trauma, a family on the brink of implosion,...
Author
Series
Last wild volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a world where animals no longer exist, Kester Jaynes feels like he hardly exists either. He's been locked away in a home for troubled children and cannot speak. Then one night some talking pigeons come to help him escape-- and the animals need him to save them too.
10) What comes next
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
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.
11) Thornhill
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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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"--
12) Jubilee
Author
Language
English
Formats
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
Series
Publisher
Nube Ocho
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Cuarta edicion.
Language
Español
Description
Carlota no habla. Todo el mundo la entiende tan solo con sus gestos y miradas. Hasta que un di?a, persiguiendo a su amigo Tom el raton, entra en la despensa y la puerta se cierra de golpe. La nina se queda encerrada. Que hara Carlota? Parece que la forma de salir de alla? tiene que ver simplemente con el uso de su voz.
"Little Carlota is timid and afraid to speak. One day, by accident, she is locked inside the pantry, alone with only tomato cans...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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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.
15) Paper wishes
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
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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