Will Halpin has attended a deaf school up until this year when he transfers to the regular public high school. He struggles making friends, but he and Devon Smiley, another "outcast", soon form a friendship. Will rarely wears his hearing aid because it gives him severe headaches, but he is an excellent lip-reader. So when he rides the bus, he sits up front where he can see the mirror and reads the lips of the kids sitting in the back of the bus. He finds a spot in the cafeteria so he can read the lips of the girl he has a crush on. On a field trip to a coal mine, one of his classmates is murdered. Will and Devon are soon involved with solving this crime and Will's lip-reading capabilities come in handy.
The common theme of the bullied outsider at a high school is freshened up a bit with the issue of Will's deafness and the murder mystery.
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