Title: Your Voice is All I Hear
Author: Leah Scheier
Pubdate: September 1st, 2015
ISBN: 9781492614418
Tradepaper/$9.99 ● Ages 14+
“I was the one he trusted. I was the one he
loved, the only one who believed him, even when his own mother had
locked him up and thrown away the key. And now, I was going to pass down
the white tiled hallway, knock on his doctor’s office door, slam his
secret notebook on her desk and make her read it, make her understand
what he was hiding, make her see what only I had seen.”
April won't let Jonah go without a fight. He’s
her boyfriend—her best friend. She’ll do anything to keep him safe. But
as Jonah slips into a dark depression, trying to escape the traumatic
past that haunts him, April is torn. To protect Jonah, she risks losing
everything: family, friends, an opportunity to attend a prestigious
music school. How much must she sacrifice? And will her voice be loud
enough to drown out the dissenters—and the ones in his head?
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An Excerpt
I KNOW MY WAY AROUND THE
MENTAL HOSPITAL. I doubt most of the girls in my neighborhood could
claim that, even though many of us lived just a few minutes from its
leafy, sterile grounds, and some of us picnicked on the lawn outside its
gate during summer break.
By the
end of tenth grade, I knew Shady Grove Hospital better than I knew my
school. I knew that the security guard’s name was Carla and that she’d
worked at her depressing post since the place was built. I knew the
quiet path behind the topiary garden where I could wait until visiting
hours began and she let me in. I’d memorized the shape and color of his
shadow behind the dark-red curtains, and I knew where I had to stand so
he could see me from his eleventh-story window. From that distant spot, I
could even guess how well the medicine was working for him that day; I
could tell what kind of visit it would be by counting the paces of his
shadow.
I had
the place mapped out, his daily routine memorized, the doctors’ names
and call schedule, every pointless detail carefully recorded in his
special little book. He’d given me those notes as if they were
classified secrets, the papers wrapped in strips of hospital linen
sealed together with bubble gum, long wads of partially chewed Wrigley’s
tied into a crisscrossed mesh. That tat- tered spiral notebook was
crammed with data he’d gathered over months: patients’ names and
histories, nurses’ phone numbers, the cleaning crew’s shift hours. I
would never know how these bits of information came together for him or
how he even found them out. But somewhere in these random nothings, he’d
put together a story for me, a clue of how to get to him, a coded
message that, for some reason, he believed only I could read. I was the
one he trusted, the only one who had not betrayed him. I was the one he
loved, the only one who believed him, even when his own mother had
locked him up and thrown away the key.
And
now, nearly three months after they’d taken him away, I was finally
ready. I was going to march up to the security window, look into the
tired guard’s blurry eyes, state my name and the name of the patient I
was visiting, and hear the buzz and click of the locked gate sliding
open. I was going to walk down the white- tiled hallway, knock on his
doctor’s office door, slam his secret notebook on her desk, and make her
read it, make her understand what he was hiding, make her see what only
I had seen.
I was finally going to do it. I was going to betray him.
About the Author
Leah Scheier works as a pediatrician and
pens stories of romance and adventure. Her first novel, Secret Letters,
was published in June 2012 (Hyperion/Disney) and received a starred
review from School Library Journal, as well as glowing reviews from
Booklist, VOYA, and Publishers Weekly. She lives in Maryland. Learn more
at leahscheier.com.
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