Mud by Alison Stine
“When Thea’s father has a premonition, he moves their family to southern Colorado’s Bloodless Valley. The plan is to unschool Thea and her sister, but it quickly becomes apparent that living on a remote farm takes far more time than they have, so Thea and her sister are left to educate themselves. Except the girls are forbidden from going to the library, as they might become “poisoned” by the web or books.
However the actual poison isn’t in information. The farm the place they’ve moved and the way it gained’t develop something due to the local weather.
So when Thea is allowed to take a job at an area café and meets Ray—{a partially} Deaf teen identical to her—she begins to place collectively the items of the world she’s simply entered. It’s declining and fast.” — Kelly Jensen