The Voices of Silence
Bel Mooney. Laurel Leaf Library, $4.99 (192pp) ISBN 978-0-440-22758-8
A 13-year-old girl living in Communist Romania, whose family plans to defect, befriends a boy whose father ranks high in the secret police. ""Mooney's drama tensely portrays the gray existence of a suppressed population and evokes the undercurrent of anger that eventually explodes into revolution,"" said PW. Ages 10-up. (Apr.)
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Reviewed on: 03/02/1998
Genre: Children's
Hardcover - 180 pages - 978-0-385-32326-0
Prebound-Other - 180 pages - 978-0-613-09014-8
Prebound-Sewn - 978-0-606-13887-1
