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Author
Series
Wayne County volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
As an Amish midwife, Abigail Graber loves bringing babies into the world. But when a difficult delivery takes a devastating turn, Abigail is faced with some hard choices. Despite her best efforts, the young mother dies-but the baby is saved.
When a heartless judge confines Abigail to the county jail for her mistakes, her sister Catherine comes to care for her children while Daniel works his fields. Catherine meets Daniel's reclusive cousin, Isaiah,...
Author
Series
Indiana cousins volume 03
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jolene Yoder returns to Indiana to teach lip reading and sign language to the newly deaf Amish man Lonnie Hershberger. As she begins falling for Lonnie, Jolene wonders if she'll ever see "signs" of his love for her. Lovelorn Lonnie is fighting his attraction to Jolene, especially since she seems smitten by Jake Beechy. And Ella Miller is worried the roving Jake will end up breaking her cousin Jolene's heart, never realizing that Jake has really set...
4) Feathers
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Moses and his schoolmates, all deaf, attend a concert where the orchestra's percussionist is also deaf. Includes illustrations in sign language and a page showing the manual alphabet.
6) Hoggee
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Always overshadowed by his competitive older brother, especially in their work as mule drivers on the Erie Canal, fourteen-year-old Howard finally finds the courage to pursue his dreams of becoming an educator after he learns about sign language and teaches it to his deaf friend in nineteenth-century New York State.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[c2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the author's own boyhood experiences, this nostalgic story of Brooklyn, New York, in 1947, where a boy learns about discrimination and tolerance as he and his deaf father share their enthusiasm over baseball and the Dodgers' first baseman, Jackie Robinson.
Author
Series
Keystone Stables volume 4
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Having taken a crash course in American Sign Language, Camp Tioga junior counselor Skye tries to communicate with a troublesome camper who is deaf, and when he disappears on horseback into the hills, she and Chad lead the rescue team.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After moving with her mother and deaf brother to Grandma's small Georgia town in the 1960s, Alice copes with feelings of isolation by befriending the elderly black woman who lives next door.
10) Gymnastics queen
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
At age twenty-one, partially-blind, lonely but spirited Annie Sullivan travels from Massachusetts to Alabama to try and teach six-year-old Helen Keller, deaf and blind since age two, self-discipline and communication skills. Includes historical notes and timeline.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When her new baby sister is born deaf, Jilly makes an online connection with a fellow fantasy fan, who happens to be black and deaf, and begins to learn about the many obstacles that exist in the world for people who are different from her.
13) Give me a sign
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lilah is stuck in the middle. At least, that's what having a hearing loss seems like sometimes--when you don't feel "deaf enough" to identify as Deaf or hearing enough to meet the world's expectations. But this summer, Lilah is ready for a change. When Lilah becomes a counselor at a summer camp for the deaf and blind, her plan is to brush up on her ASL. Romance was never on the agenda, and Lilah's not positive Isaac likes her that way. But all signs...
14) Set me free
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history final, and have doctors, politicians, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is rocked...
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