Title: Understanding Buddy
Description: When a new classmate stops speaking because of the sudden death of his mother, fifth grader Sam tries to befriend him and risks destroying his relationship with his best friend Alex.
Subjects: Death, Jews, Juvenile fiction, Elective Mutism, Fiction, Grief, Schools, Selective mutism, Friendship, Large type books, Children's fiction, Death, fiction, Grief, fiction, Schools, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Jews, united states, fiction
Places: United States