SOLVED. Children's/Middle reader. Girl is mute (or doesn't talk much) & recovering from illness. She likes to go to woods or wooded park to be alone. Meets an abused(?) boy in woods, they become friends. Cover: green, girl, trees. [s]

[Pam]

I read this book in the very early 90s, though likely it is older given the public library I had checked it out from, children's or middle readers book about a young girl, I think she was either mute or didn't talk much at all because she had suffered from a long illness and recovery - not cancer, maybe mumps, definitely something contagious so that she was isolated at home and didn't go to school. Though now that I think about it, maybe hard of hearing, though not necessarily deaf - it would have been caused by complications from the illness. She liked to go to the woods or a wooded park to be alone outside. Eventually she meets a boy in the wooded area; I think he was there to get away from an abusive family but I don't remember. All I remember is that the cover was green and had a picture of the girl and some trees on it

[Pam]

Any ideas yet? bump

[Kris]

Pam, I added a few details to the header/topic title at the top of the page, so your book might be recognized from that description alone. Many members only read the headers.

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[Rainbowheart]

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[Pam]

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I just looked up some old book covers for that book. Thank you Rainbowheart, that is the book. I wasn't sure from that description since I seem to have remembered some of the details wrong, but seeing the cover, that's definitely it.
Thank you!

[Rainbowheart]

Awesome, glad to help out!