Tell Me How the Wind Sounds

by Leslie Davis Guccione

An ordinary summer at the beach becomes a life lesson in love and understanding when fifteen-year-old Amanda meets Jake, a seventeen-year-old deaf boy. Reprint.

Genres: Young Adult, Romance

196 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

With the simultaneous sales of a YA and adult romantic suspense novel, Leslie Davis Guccione left public relations and fundraising copywriting to concentrate on fiction. Her thirty-one novels for adult, middle grade and teen readers & articles on the craft of writing have garnered awards, starred reviews and genre fiction best seller status.
Her work for adults began with two Avon romantic suspense titles. She moved to Harlequin/Silhouette & topped B. Dalton, Waldenbooks and other bookstore bestseller lists. Two have been “Man of the Month” lead titles and Bittersweet Harvest evolved into the six-book Branigan Brothers series. She was Harlequin/Silhouette’s “Author of the Month” during the release of Borrowed Baby.
Her books have been translated into eight languages. She has been a finalist and judge for the RWA RITA awards. As Kate Chester she created and wrote the six book HEAR NO EVIL series for Scholastic. Six books for teen readers feature deaf protagonists; TELL ME HOW THE WIND SOUNDS has been optioned for television. Her works for young readers have been book club and readers’ choice selections as well as classroom required reading. Two titles have been featured in Hornbook Magazine’s “Musings” column.
In 2000 she took a break from fiction to teach, write articles on the craft and establish her manuscript review service. She is currently a mentor and adjunct faculty member for Seton Hill University’s MFA program: Writing Popular Fiction. Professional memberships have included The Authors Guild, Romance Writes of America (RWA) and The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI).

Reviews

[Ricky Taylor · Rating 4 out of 5]

This young adult romance novel caught my attention when I was 14 years old because one of the characters is deaf, just like I was. It is nice to see someone like me in a novel like this. I can sense that the author is not fluent in American Sign Language nor immersed heavily in Deaf Culture but the story was still sweet and beautiful, good for the teenagers to open their minds in accepting one's disability and perhaps in love with one.

[Bailey Oliver · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was fantastic! I read this in grade school and remembered it being great as an adult. I read it recently and it held up! I also just love ASL and Deaf culture. Short read, but a good one.

A girl vacations on an island with her family for the summer where she meets a local Deaf boy. There’s romance and close calls out at sea.

[Maria Elmvang · Rating 2 out of 5]

YA of the old-fashioned kind with all the clichés of its type. The girl is so popular that everybody falls for her, the old boyfriend is a thoughtless jerk, the new guy is dark and mysterious. The only thing this book has that makes it different is that the 'new guy' is deaf and a lot of sign-language is described in the book. I've always wanted to learn sign-language and that by itself was enough to make the book interesting to me as a kid. To an adult it doesn't offer much.

[Jennivie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I will always love this book. I hadn't read it in a very long time; I was Amanda's age or younger, when love was a dream I knew nothing about. It is still one of my favorites and, having studied Deaf culture and ASL on my own on and off through the years, it was even more amazing this time through.

[Jennivie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Now that I think of it, this was more than likely my very first romance novel. I couldn't have been older than 12 or 13.

[R · Rating 5 out of 5]

Seriously one of the most memorable teenage type summer novels I read back early in high school.

[Leah Angstman · Rating 3 out of 5]

For whatever reason, I decided to reread this. It's not good for adults in the slightest, but I loved it as a kid. Here's my review: http://alt-current.blogspot.com/2012/....