Finding Their Voice

Middle school was supposed to be a fresh start. For Nila, the hallways are too loud, the classrooms move too fast, and the boys who mocked her hands on the bus are still watching. Her communication device gives her words when words are hard to find - but what she really wants is a voice that feels like her own. For Sophie, the letters on the page won't stay still and pretending to keep up is slowly sinking her. But something is shifting at Maple Wood Middle. When four unlikely friends build something brave together and an act of digital cruelty threatens to tear it down, Nila will face the moment she has been preparing for all year - the one where she sets down her device and lets the truth come out in her own words. Some voices take time to find. That doesn't make them any less powerful.