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391 pp.
| Simon Pulse |
January, 2018 |
TradeISBN 978-1-5344-0241-6$17.99
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EbookISBN 978-1-5344-0243-0
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YA
Anxiety-sufferer Stefanie Brons hates the diagnosis "selective mutism": it makes others think she has control over her inability to speak. (Her narrative voice, however, is wonderfully sardonic and plainspoken.) When Steffi befriends cute new boy Rhys, who's deaf, and communicates with him through sign language, she sees herself anew. Thunder is the rare, authentic novel that dives into the day-to-day of debilitating anxiety.