Sophia Oomla leaves the talking world.?? When her teacher calls on her.? When her classmates speak to her.? But at midnight, when no one can hear her, no one can see her, she finds her tongue.? In fact, she is the Star-of-the-Talking-World, and a vamp, too, who can strut and hold forth and thunder away in her very own clandestine Midnight Movie Star School.? For Sophia Oomla only wants to talk in the Talking-World the way Movie Stars do, the way her Mother does.? Because surely they are from the Land-of-the-Perfect, and not from the land that she comes from, the Land-of-the-Timid-Tongues.? Because wordless-ducklings from that land get sentenced to see speech therapists for non-communication, like she?s been.Eloquent in one place, but not another?Do you smell a paradox, Readers?The magical creatures sure did.? They lived in our protagonist?s head and know all about minds and thinking, except why this girl could be so very confident in one place and so very faltering in another.? Those creatures needed someone who not only understood the problem but who would write a book about it.? Which lead their noses righ