Author: Sarah Lean
Rating: 5/5 Stars
Reviewer: Christi
Summary: Fifth-grader Cally Louise Fisher stops talking, partly because her father and brother never speak of her mother who died a year earlier, but visions of her mother, friendships with a homeless man and a disabled boy, and a huge dog ensure that she still communicates.
Review: A new and powerful writer. I hope she is working on another book. I would normally steer clear of "sad" books. Someone dies at the start? Not for me. But this one caught my attention, so I thought I’d give it a shot. I'm so glad I did. I loved the friendship that grows between this girl, who has decided not to talk, and her blind and mostly deaf neighbor. The author deals with all the layers of this story and sensitive topics so brilliantly. There was just the right amount of hope, happiness, sadness, unfairness, and magic to make you not want to put this book down. A quick read that I highly recommend.
This book won the Schneider Family Book Award. The Schneider Family Book Awards honor an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.
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