The Silent Boy

Name: The Silent Boy
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Author: Lois Lowry
ISBN: 9780807216934

Author: Lois Lowry

Narrator: Karen Allen

Unabridged: 3 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Listening Library

Published: 05/13/2003

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Disabilities, Family, Historical Fiction, United States

Synopsis

Precocious Katy Thatcher comes to realize what a gentle, silent boy did for his family. He meant to help, not harm. It didn’t turn out that way.

“The author balances humor and generosity with the obstacles and injustice of Katy’s world to depict a complete picture of the turn of the 20th century.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred

Reviews

Goodreads review by Linda on February 24, 2012

He was different from others. Jacob Stolz walked head down, large feet shuffling along the dirt roads. He did not talk, but when engaged, made noises to imitate his surroundings. The sound of the great gristmill grindstone as it crushed the grain was expressed as shooda, shooda, shooda. The marbles......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on April 07, 2008

Ugh, this was such paint by numbers historical fiction. Little girl ahead of her time (She wants to be a doctor like her daddy!) + vaguely quaint descriptions of daily life (Time to harness the horses and hang the laundry!) + awkwardly inserted Important Historical Events (The Triangle Shirtwaist fi......more

Awards

Kentucky Bluegrass Master List