After watching his father die five years earlier Parker refuses to speak, but everything changes when he meets a mysterious young woman named Zelda.

Living with her beloved aunt and faithful dog years after her mother left and she stopped speaking, young Judith communicates through gestures and drawing cartoons while tackling the challenges of a new school and questioning whether or not to seek out her mother.

After Maggie intentionally overdoses on sleeping pills and ends up in a coma, her estranged husband, Frank, must figure out how to explain why he had withdrawn from the world and stopped speaking to her, before he loses her forever.

Fifteen-year-old Tess Turner of Manchester, England, decides to stop speaking in the wake of discovering a heartbreaking family secret.

A graphic novel/prose hybrid which tells the story of a young Japanese American man who leaves his family in the Manzanar internment camp to fight in the European theater during World War II, and of his ten-year-old sister who, frustrated over her brother risking his life for the government that imprisoned them, decides to stop talking until he returns.