Sign-In
Cart
Dancing in the Silence
Paperback
Publisher Price: $14.99
ISBN13: 9781959788249
Publisher: Winged Pubn
Published: Jan 27 2023
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
How can an Air Force kid survive junior high when her dad's at war, her little sister is deaf, and friends have abandoned her?
It's 1967 and Debbie Hansen hates her life. She has to leave all of her New York friends, move to California's Mojave Desert, then back to New York, all because her dad will be sent to Vietnam for a year. And three out of five pilots never come home. Debbie could be fatherless before she starts high school.
Her only comfort? She'd have her old friends to lean on if the worst happened. Wrong. When Debbie returns to her hometown, she finds the group moved on without her. She tries to reconnect, but their message is clear-NOT interested.
Living under the shadows of war, Debbie and her brothers mask their fears by acting out in anger toward each other until a final showdown erupts into near tragedy. Meanwhile, Mom forbids Debbie to teach Krista sign language. Experts say deaf children need to speak. Debbie defies them.
Krista is the only one who's happy. She blossoms in her world without sound. Before Dad returns, if he returns, Debbie needs to choose-she can keep struggling to earn a place with the in crowd, or she can learn to dance with her sister in the silence.
Also in
General Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
Anniversaries, Volume 2: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968-August 1968
Johnson, Uwe
Paperback
Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977 (Loa #165): The Great American Novel / My Life as a Man / The Professor of Desire
Roth, Philip
Hardcover
Selected Writings: Robert Musil: Young Torless, Three Women, the Perfecting of a Love, and Other Writings
Musil, Robert
Agee, Joel
Paperback
Before Gatsby: The First Twenty-Six Stories
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Bruccoli, Matthew J.
Baughman, Judith
Paperback