A girl who cant speak and a boy who cant hear go on a journey of self-discovery and find support with each other.

Rendered an outsider by a horrifying trauma that killed her best friend and left her unable to speak, Judith spends her days longing for the boy she loves until an attack on the community reveals long-buried secrets and compels Judith to reclaim her voice, even if it means changing her world, and the lives around her, forever.

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.

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.