McGovern, Cammie

Seventeen-year-old Amy has cerebral palsy, speaks with an electronic speech computer, and uses adult aides. In her last year of high school, Amy decides to hire a peer to help her make friends. OCD-suffering Matthew becomes her peer helper and the two develop an unlikely friendship that leads to love.

"When Emily sees her developmentally disabled classmate Belinda being attacked, she does nothing at all. Belinda, however, manages to save herself. When their high school finds out what happened, Emily and Lucas, a football player who was also there that night, are required to perform community service at a center for disabled people. But can they do anything that that will actually help the one person they hurt the most?"--OCLC.

Born with cerebral palsy, Amy can't walk without a walker, talk without a voice box, or even fully control her facial expressions. Plagued by obsessive-compulsive disorder, Matthew is consumed with repeated thoughts, neurotic rituals, and crippling fear. Both in desperate need of someone to help them reach out to the world, Amy and Matthew are more alike than either ever realized. When Amy decides to hire student aides to help her in her senior year at Coral Hills High School, these two teens are thrust into each other's lives. As they begin to spend time with each other, what started as a blossoming friendship eventually grows into something neither expected.

Two children disappear into the woods and hours later one of them, nine-year-old Adam, emerges as the sole witness to his playmate's murder. But due to his autism, Adam can say nothing about what he saw. Only his mother holds the power to penetrate his silence. This is a thriller of hypnotic suspense and a powerful story of the bond between a mother and a very special child.

Adam, an autistic boy, is the only witness to a brutal murder and it is up to his mother, Cara, to interpret the boy's puzzling clues and unlock his silence to help the police find the killer.