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2023., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: REALISTIC F LEZ Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fourteen-year-old teacher, Mary Lambert, travels to Paris where she encounters a wellspring of formalized deaf education and sign language, but when she discovers the missionaries' questionable plan to "save" deaf children, she must decide if pursuing her goals is worth betraying her friends.
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2021., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Historical fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Three years after being kidnapping from her home in Martha's Vineyard, fourteen-year-old Mary Lambert receives a letter from Nora O'Neal, a servant in the house where she was held, who tells her of an eight-year-old girl where she is now employed whom Nora believes to be a deaf-mute, but who is being treated as insane, and asks Mary to come and teach the nameless child; a little scared, but intrigued, and bored with domestic life, Mary agrees--only to find that there is more to the child's story, and that freeing her from a world of silence and imprisonment may be more dangerous than anyone anticipated.
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2021., Adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: REALISTIC F LEZ Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Three years after being kidnapping from her home in Martha's Vineyard, fourteen-year-old Mary Lambert receives a letter from Nora O'Neal, a servant in the house where she was held, who tells her of an eight-year-old girl where she is now employed whom Nora believes to be a deaf-mute, but who is being treated as insane, and asks Mary to come and teach the nameless child; a little scared, but intrigued, and bored with domestic life, Mary agrees--only to find that there is more to the child's story, and that freeing her from a world of silence and imprisonment may be more dangerous than anyone anticipated.
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2020., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: REALISTIC F LEZ Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes the perfect "live specimen"--and kidnapped her.
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2020., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes the perfect "live specimen"--and has kidnapped her.
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2020., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: HISTORICAL FIC LEZ Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes the perfect "live specimen"--and kidnapped her.
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2020., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Historical fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes the perfect "live specimen"--and kidnapped her.
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2021., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Inc. Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Mary Lambert has felt safe and accepted on her beloved island of Martha's Vineyard, comforted by the fact that her great-great-grandfather was the first deaf islander and paved the way for many to learn sign language. However, when Mary's brother dies and her family shatters amidst land disputes with the English settlers and Wampanoag people, it paves the way for an opportunistic young scientist to come and study the island's prevalent deafness, and, without moral scruples, he begins using Mary as a "live specimen" for increasingly cruel experiments.
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Juvenile Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes the perfect "live specimen"--and kidnapped her.
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-- Tee four2008., Pre-adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After the Nazi party takes control of Germany, thirteen-year-old Paula, who is deaf, is forced to go into hiding because of Adolf Hitler's Tiegartenstrasse 4--T4--which was put in place to kill any mentally ill or disabled people.