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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