Title: The Silent Storm
Description: Thirteen-year-old Alyssa has not spoken since seeing her parents die in a hurricane, and now, three years later, another storm threatens the home she shares with her grandfather on Galveston Island.
Subjects: Orphans, Elective Mutism, Fiction, Grandfathers, Hurricanes, Selective mutism, Children's fiction, Orphans, fiction, Grandparents, fiction, Hurricanes, fiction, Texas, fiction
Places: Galveston (Tex.)