Silent Starsong
Publisher: Spencer Hill Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781939392947; 9781939392930
Subjects: Deaf; Juvenile fiction; Families; Prophecies; Extraterrestrial beings; Telepathy; Children with disabilities; Life on other planets; JUVENILE FICTION; Science Fiction
Description: Eleven-year-old Kyra is meant to continue the Starbard's proud family legacy of interpreting the future from the stars' songs. Her deafness, incurable by the best medics, breaks her mother's heart and pushes her father to explore anything to help his little girl--including the expensive purchase of a telepathic alien servant to help Kyra communicate on a planet inhospitable to unfixable genetic defects. Marne's telepathy is too weak for his Naratsset culture, so he is sold into slavery and expects to die at the hands of human owners--until he meets a human child who begs her father to """"save.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Prologue A Failed Operation; Chapter 1 What Happens to the Unwanted?; Chapter 2 Vibrational Discord; Chapter 3 Time, Space, and Affection; Chapter 4 Stars and Other Discoveries; Chapter 5 Generations; Chapter 6 Foretelling; Chapter 7 Bard-dreams of Home; Chapter 8 When It Changed; Chapter 9 Black Holes, Empty Space; Chapter 10 Asteroid Storm; Chapter 11 Defying Orbit; Chapter 12 Reading Minds; Chapter 13 Final Countdown; Chapter 14 Boarding Call; Chapter 15 United Foundation Consortium; Chapter 16 The Star's Lessons; About the Author.