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[2017]., Juvenile, Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint Call No: Gold Fiction Peschke Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The Summer Olympics inspires Kylie Jean Carter to take gymnastics lessons, but even better than that is making a new friend, Abby, who is deaf, and starting to learn sign language.
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By Rorby, Ginnyc2006, Pre-adolescent, Starscape Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Thirteen-year-old Joey Willis, deaf since the age of six, is used to being left out of conversations because her mother never allowed her to learn sign language. Everything changes when Joey meets Dr. Charles Mansell and his baby chimpanzee, Sukari, but as Joey's world blooms with possibilities, the everything changes again.
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2017., Pre-adolescent, Pajama Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Genre: Realistic fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Dealing with her mother remarrying a man with twin daughters and her family moving, deaf sixth-grader Macy is told that she must help her elderly neighbor Iris Gillan, who is getting ready to move to a nursing home.
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-- Macy McMillan & the rainbow goddess2017., Juvenile, Pajama Press, Inc. Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Deaf sixth-grader Macy struggles with resentment as her mother sells their house and prepares to add a stepfather and twin stepsisters to their family. Helping an elderly neighbor who is also preparing to move turns from a chore to an escape as Iris finds ways to communicate with Macy and shares stories that inspire the girl to look at life in new ways."--Provided by publisher.
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[2014], Primary, Random House Call No: [E] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Ruthie Tober's family is known for the beautiful, warm mittens they knit so when she and her mother meet a deaf woman and her baby and give them shelter, Ruthie decides to design very special mittens for them.
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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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2011., Scholastic Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Relates the stories of twelve-year-old Ben, who loses his mother and his hearing in a short time frame and decides to leave his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he has never known in New York City; and Rose, who lives with her father but feels compelled to search for what is missing in her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.