Book Titles on Silence

Suggestions for Reading - Silence

General:

Cain, Susan.  Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking.  New York: Crown Publishers, 2012.

Iyer, Pico.  “The Joy of Quiet,” New York Times Sunday Review, January 1, 2012.  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/opinion/sunday/the-joy-of-quiet.html?pagewanted=all

Lees, Helen.  Silence in Schools.  London: Trentham Books, 2012.

Lower School Families:

Baylor, Byrd and Peter Parnall.  The Other Way to Listen.  Aladdin, 1997.

Cherry, Lynne.  The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest.  Sandpiper; reprint edition, (1990) 2000.

Deedy, Carmen Agra.  The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark.  Peachtree Pub. Ltd, 2000.

Fox, Mem.  Whoever You Are.  Sandpiper, 2006.

MacLean, Kerry Lee.  Peaceful Piggy Meditation.  Albert Whitman & Company, 2004.

Martin, Bill Jr., and John Archambault.  Listen to the Rain.  Henry Holt & Co., 1988.

Radunsky, Vladimir.  What Does Peace Feel Like?  Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2004.

Scanlon, Liz Garton.  All the World.  Beach Lane Books, 2009.

Showers, Paul.  The Listening Walk.  HarperCollins, (1961) 1993.

Sweetland, Nancy.  God’s Quiet Things.  Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 1999.

Wood, Douglas and Dan Andreasen.  A Quiet Place.  Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2005.

Middle School Families:

Quakerism

Black, W. Geoffrey, et al.  Whispers of Faith: Young Friends Share Their Experiences of Quakerism.  Philadelphia: Friends General Conference, 2005.

Poetry

Gordon, Ruth, ed.  Under All Silences: Shades of Love.

Spires, Elizabeth.  I Heard God Talking to Me.  

Fiction

Rorby, Ginny.  Hurt Go Happy.  Starscape, 2006.

The main character is deaf–this has some interesting ethical dilemmas in it.

Spinelli, Jerry.  Crash.  Laurel Leaf, 2004.

The main character is Quaker.

Turnbull, Ann.  No Shame, No Fear.  Candlewick, 2006.

A book geared more for 7^th and 8th grade and up as it tells the story of a Quaker girl who falls in love with an Anglican boy in 1600s England, at a time of religious persecution.

Wood, Douglas.  Old Turtle.  Scholastic Press, 2007.

Upper School Families:

    Allen, Irene.  Quaker Silence.  Villard, 1992.  [Mystery             novel]

Bein, Peter.  Words, Wordlessness, and the Word Silence reconsidered from a Literary Point of View.  Pendle Hill Pamphlet, 1992.

Birkel, Michael Lawrence.  Silence and Witness: The Quaker Tradition.  Orbis Books, 2004.

Carroll, Kenneth. Touched by God in Quaker Meeting.  Pendle Hill Pamphlet, 1998.

Dart, Martha.  To Meet at the Source of Hindus and Quakers.  Pendle Hill Pamphlet, 1989.

Punshon, John.  Encounter with Silence: Reflections from the Quaker Tradition.  Friends United Press, 1987.

Zielinsky, Stanislaw.  Psychology and Silence.  Pendle Hill Pamphlet, 1975.

The Sidwell Friends School LS Quaker Life Committee compiled this collection of books in October, 2012.  Suggested readings came from the Lower, Middle, and Upper School faculty and librarians.

This list is simply a starting point and is not a comprehensive compilation - I would welcome additional suggestions that I can add to this list!