There Are No Words - Softcover

Brown, Mary Calhoun

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ISBN 10: 0977630021 ISBN 13: 9780977630028

Publisher: Lucky Press, LLC, 2010

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"Young teenagers, their teachers and parents will be happy to have this one in their library." -Dr. Ruth C. Sullivan, former President of the Autism Society of America Jaxon MacKenzie, a mute, yet secretly literate, 12-year-old girl, discovers a faded newspaper article documenting the greatest train wreck in American history-an event that claimed the life of her grandfather's best friend, Oliver Pack. That night Jaxon is whisked through an old painting in her grandparents' parlor, back to July 1918 in an attempt to prevent the accident. Miraculously, she finds herself able to speak for the first time. Jaxon meets three friends: Sara Hale, Dewey MacKenzie, and Oliver. Soon Jaxon realizes her mission in this world of horse-drawn carts and prejudice is to save Oliver from dying aboard one of the ill-fated passenger cars, filled with young black men on their way to Nashville to work making gun powder for the war effort. With the government's takeover of the railways during World War I, and a calamity of human error, the train cannot be stopped from its fate, and the responsibility of saving Oliver Pack is planted firmly on the shoulders of this remarkable young lady. Topics: autism, Asperger's Syndrome, Tennesse Train Wreck 1918, World War I, friendship

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About the author: Mike Campbell is a longtime, award-winning active-duty and civilian Navy journalist currently employed as a public affairs specialist for the Air Force. Since meeting Thomas E. Devine, author of EYEWITNESS: The Amelia Earhart Incident (Renaissance House, 1987), almost 20 years ago, he has worked against impossible odds to expose the continuing U.S. government and media cover-up of the truth in the last great mystery of the 20th century. Most recently he edited The Atchison Report, the most extensive debunking ever of the false Amelia Earhart-as-Irene Bolam theory. He lives with his wife, Nee, in Cheverly, Maryland.

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