Title: Silent to the Bone
Author: E.L. Konigsburg
Publisher: A Jean Karl Book
Date: 2000
Age Range: 5 - 6 grade
Summary: When he is wrongly accused of gravely injuring his baby half sister, thirteen-year Branwell loses his power of speech and only his friend Connor is able to reach him and uncover the truth about what really happened.
Strengths:
I wasn't really expecting much from this book so I was delightfully surprised! It's a strong book with a lot of mystery buried within it. It kept me at the edge of my seat the whole time and I love how they used the author who wrote the Diving Bell and the Butterfly (He was paralyzed except one eye and he wrote his memoir by blinking his eye) This is an excellent and clever book!
Concerns:
The way Connor and Bran talk is very advance, you can tell that they are smart kids. The language may be off-putting for some kids though. Some parents might not agree with the "sexual-undertones", the two boys just turned 13 so they are feeling the first pangs of adolescence with the older and pretty British au-pair. These undertones are what is at the heart of the matter of the mystery so it's not off to the side.
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