In Tanzania, Bernardi's mute grandfather makes him a wonderful music box and then helps him realize his dream of owning a soccer ball and going to school.

In 1984, following her mother's suicide, 15-year-old Maya and her Sikh father travel to New Delhi from Canada to place her mother's ashes in their final resting place. On the night of their arrival, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated, Maya and her father are separated when the city erupts in chaos, and Maya must rely on Sandeep, a boy she has just met, for survival.

Megan doesn't speak. She hasn't spoken in months. Pushing away the people she cares about is just a small price to pay. Because there are things locked inside Megan's head - things that are screaming to be heard - that she cannot, must not, let out. Then Jasmine starts at school: bubbly, beautiful, talkative Jasmine. And for reasons Megan can't quite understand, life starts to look a bit brighter. Megan would love to speak again, and it seems like...

"Mitchell and Jessup are two thieves attempting to steal 80 million dollars of hidden Texas drug money from the famed ranch belonging to a dead member of the infamous Cowboy Mafia. Unbeknownst to them, the mute granddaughter, and heir to the ranch, Lilly, is also hot on the money trail. Knowing where the money is hidden and unable to speak, Lilly is quickly taken captive by Mitchell and Jessup and subjected to a series of interrogation that provide...

"Jillian Guzmán, who is nine years old at the beginning of the book, communicates through drawings rather than speech as she travels with her mother, Angie O'Malley, throughout the borderlands of Arizona and northwestern Mexico. Later she creates survival maps for border crossers and paints murals at the Casa de los Olvidados, a refuge in Sonora run by the traditional healer Juana of God. These darkly funny tales, focusing on Mexican-American, Euro-American,...

Where the red fern grows: A young Oklahoma boy uses his own savings to buy two hunting dogs, which he grows to love. The legend of Wolf Mountain: Kerrie, Casey and John have gotten themselves into a bit of trouble. First, they were sent home from school and then they were accidentally kidnapped by a pair of ex-cons! The proud rebel: John Chandler is traveling the country with his son, David, and their sheep dog, Lance, in search of a doctor who...