Title: Cicada Summer
Description: Lily hasn't spoken a single word in two years. Everyone thinks she can't speak anymore, but the truth is she just chooses not to. Then Tinny, a mean girl who's new to town, finds out Lily's secret and threatens to tell. But Tinny has a secret of her own, and when she goes missing Lily has to decide whether to speak up and save her.
Subjects: Death, Brothers and sisters, Emotional problems, Juvenile fiction, Emotional problems of children, Fiction, General, Juvenile Fiction / General, Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction, Children: Grades 4-6, Children's fiction, Death, fiction, Grief, fiction, Illinois, fiction, Brothers and sisters, fiction