Title: The last codfish
Description: Fifteen-year-old Tut lives in squalor with his fisherman father on the coast of Maine, but his English teacher and a new neighbor girl are determined to turn his life around and force him to speak, which he has not done since his mother's death.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Elective Mutism, Single-parent families, Fiction, Grief, Fishing, Selective mutism, Friendship, Teachers, Children's fiction, Family life, fiction
Places: Maine