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The year is 1993 and Michael is a typical teen. His favorite bands are the Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana. He enjoys hanging with the fellas, gets crushes on pretty girls and eats lots of pizza. The only key difference from his peers is, he can’t speak. With limited communication most people including his own parents underestimate his feelings, thoughts, and intellect. He is trapped in a silent prison until one day through happenstance his older brother, Ethan and his best friend, Jarek discover he can spell. This changes everything.When opportunity for a better life presents itself, Michael’s family must relocate from the bustling city of San Francisco to a quaint old mining town in the Colorado mountains. Michael has never known any other place and just as he begins to adjust to his new life, tragedy strikes.Mysterious circumstances surrounding the ‘big building’ a shadowy facility that is thought to be restoring the economy of the once thriving but now struggling Jukesville, Colorado cause Michael, Ethan and Jarek to question the strange goings on. Through Michael’s challenges, his desire to bring his family together and discover the truth, motivate him to push himself in ways no one including him would have thought possible.In order to uncover the truth, the boys must undertake a life-changing journey and risk their lives.
This book is so enlightening! The hero is a non verbal autistic boy who learns to communicate through spelling. His intelligence was hidden from the world until almost by accident, spelling his thoughts opens up Michael's ability to communicate. Following a family tragedy, Michael, his brother and friends find themselves investigating strange activities in their small town. The boys dodge danger, uncover nefarious secrets and save a young girl. The story keeps the reader mesmerized while enlightening the reader to the imagination, courage, empathy, kindness and knowledge locked inside many who currently have no voice but with encouragement have so much to contribute to us all. I found the book to be one of my favorite reads this year. I intend to purchase several copies to distribute to all the young teens in my family and circle of friends. While anyone who reads this will most likely enjoy it, I think adolescents and young teens are the target audience.
