What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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After Zero
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SOLVED. Juvenile or YA. Selective mute girl. she likes to tally how many words she spoke that day. [s]
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After Zero by Christina Collins seems to match your description! It was published in 2018.Elise carries a notebook full of tallies, each page marking a day spent at her new public school, each stroke of her pencil marking a word spoken. A word that can't be taken back. Five tally marks isn't so bad. Two is pretty good. But zero? Zero is perfect. Zero means no wrong answers called out in class, no secrets accidentally spilled, no conversations to agonize over at night when sleep is far away.
But now months have passed, and Elise isn't sure she could speak even if she wanted to―not to keep her only friend, Mel, from drifting further away―or to ask if anyone else has seen her English teacher's stuffed raven come to life. Then, the discovery of a shocking family secret helps Elise realize that her silence might just be the key to unlocking everything she's ever hoped for...
Yes this is it!! Thank you so much <3
This book is about a selective mute girl in middle school or the very first year of high school, I don't remember. I can remember that in the book she likes to tally how many words she spoke that day. I'm pretty sure the book cover is purple and blue possibly with tally marks on it. This might've been a new release around the time when I read it, it certainly was not old. Pretty sure the author was a girl. Thank you all in advance for your help! So excited to find this book again. :)