Tell Me How The Wind Sounds
By Leslie Davis Guccione
When her family decides to spend their summer on a small island off New England. Fifteen year old Amanda Alden feels really trapped. Cut off from everything important, what about her plans for the summer? Her friends? Her boyfriend?
When she meets Jake, the son of a local fisherman she is confused and frightened by his unyielding silence,by the way he looks at her. And yet she cannot stop thinking about him, the truth is that Jake is in a trap of his own. He is deaf and he wants nothing to do with a world he is sure will mock him.
But when Amanda finds out she is determined they will be friends. In spite of Jake's brusque responces she begins to seek him out, to learn sign language so she can talk to him on his ground as well as on hers. As Amanda and Jake make the tentative steps towards friendship, they learn to accept one another's limitations and admires each others strengths.
Then they relize that what they feel for each other is more than friendship. Now they must come to terms not only with their feelings toward each other, but also with the way the world will reguard them as a couple.They will have to decide wheather the obstacles between them are simply too great to overcome.
Reading level: Young Adult
by Leslie Davis Guccione
Paperback: 196 pages
Publisher: Scholastic (July 1992)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0590417142
ISBN-13: 978-0590417143
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