After zero by Collins, Christina 

BTSB Prebound(Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 2018)

BTSB #: 231128 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.3 MG RC: 3.5 3-5 Lexile: 630

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Selective mutism - Fiction Interpersonal relations - Fiction School stories Secrets - Fiction Ravens - Fiction

Summary: When Elise leaves homeschooling for public school, she copes by speaking as little as possible, but soon her silence becomes an impediment to friendship and to dealing with family secrets.

Bird by Chan, Crystal 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2014)

BTSB #: 205844 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.6 MG RC: 4.5 6-8 Lexile: 730

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Superstition - Fiction Grief - Fiction Family problems - Fiction Selective mutism - Fiction Racially-mixed people - Fiction Iowa - Fiction

Summary: Twelve-year-old Jewel was born on the day her brother Bird died and lives in a house of silence and secrets, but a new boy in her Iowa town may help find the answers Jewel wants despite her Jamaican grandfather's warning that he is a "duppy," a malevolent spirit.

Calling the water drum by Redding, LaTisha 

BTSB Prebound(Lee & Low Books, 2016)

BTSB #: 741875 Available

Dewey: EAges: 5-9   
RC: 2.2 K-2 Lexile: 550 AD F&P: P

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Drum - Fiction Selective mutism - Fiction Orphans - Fiction Immigrants - Fiction Haitian Americans - Fiction New York (N.Y.) - Fiction

Summary: A young boy loses both parents as they attempt to flee Haiti for a better life, and afterward is only able to process his grief and communicate with the outside world through playing the drums.

Dark wild by Torday, Piers 

BTSB Prebound(Viking, 2015)

BTSB #: 885050 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.8 MG Lexile: 830

Genres: Science Fiction Animals

Subjects: Human-animal communication - Fiction Animals - Fiction Diseases - Fiction Selective mutism - Fiction Science fiction

Summary: After gathering together the Last Wild, the last animals still alive, Kester Jaynes is faced with a new task--facing the Dark Wild, the animals who live underground and want to destroy humankind.

Jubilee by Giff, Patricia Reilly 

BTSB Prebound(Wendy Lamb Books, 2016)

BTSB #: 378341 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4 MG RC: 3.2 3-5 Lexile: 540 F&P: T

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Selective mutism - Fiction Dogs - Fiction Mother-daughter relationship - Fiction Friendship - Fiction School stories. Islands - Fiction

Summary: 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.

Lost children of the far islands by Raabe, Emily 

BTSB Prebound(Knopf, 2014)

BTSB #: 736824 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.3 MG RC: 5.3 3-5 Lexile: 800 F&P: V

Genres: Supernatural Adventure Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Supernatural - Fiction Shapeshifting - Fiction Siblings - Fiction Family life - Maine - Fiction Selective mutism - Fiction Adventure fiction Maine - Fiction

Summary: After their mother falls mysteriously ill, eleven-year-old twins Gus and Leo and their mute younger sister, Ila, learn that they share their mother's ability to transform into animals, and to defeat the evil King of the Black Lakes, they must harness this newfound power.

Orphan eleven by Choldenko, Gennifer 

BTSB Prebound(Wendy Lamb Books, 2020)

BTSB #: 211955 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.3 MG Lexile: 640 F&P: V

Genres: Animals

Subjects: Orphans - Fiction Orphanages - Fiction Selective mutism - Fiction Runaway children - Fiction Circus - Fiction Elephants - Fiction Human experimentation in medicine - Fiction

Summary: In 1939, after cruel treatment at her orphanage renders her mute, Lucy runs away and joins the circus, working with the elephants and unaware that the orphanage matrons are hunting for her.

Paper wishes by Sepahban, Lois 

Paperback(Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2016)

BTSB #: 800251 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 3.8 MG RC: 3.2 3-5 Lexile: 550

Genres:

Subjects: Manzanar War Relocation Center - Fiction Japanese Americans - Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 - Fiction Selective mutism - Fiction Family life - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - United States - Fiction

Summary: 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.

Pet by Emezi, Akwaeke 

Paperback(Make Me a World, 2019)

BTSB #: 310120 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 5.7 MG+ Lexile: 820

Genres: Fantasy Fiction

Subjects: Monsters - Fiction Angels - Fiction Family life - Fiction Artists - Fiction Selective mutism - Fiction Transgender people - Fiction

Summary: 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.

What comes next by Buyea, Rob 

BTSB Prebound(Delacorte Press, 2021)

BTSB #: 179500 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
F&P: V

Genres: Family Life Animals

Subjects: Death - Fiction Best friends - Fiction Grief - Fiction Dogs - Fiction Guilt - Fiction Selective mutism - Fiction Moving - Fiction

Summary: 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.