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Author
Series
Moses volume 3
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
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Description
Moses, who is deaf, has a good time with his family at the circus, where they communicate using sign language. Includes illustrations of some of the signs they use.
Author
Series
Moses volume 1
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
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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.
Author
Series
Moses volume 2
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
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Description
Moses and his friends enjoy the first day of school at their special school for the deaf and hard of hearing, where they use sign language to talk to each other.
5) Feathers
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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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.
8) All he knew
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
In 1939 six-year-old Henry, who is deaf, is taken from his family and placed in a home for the feeble-minded where, years later, his friends include a conscientious objector serving there during World War II. Includes historical notes.
10) The Boney Hand
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When a Castle-on-the-Hudson school legend suddenly goes missing, Charlie is the prime suspect but he and his best friend, Frog, are determined to find the real culprit.
12) Making a play
Author
Series
Field party novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the small town of Lawton, Alabama, high school senior Ryker, a player on and off the football field, falls in love with a deaf girl who lives with her overprotective twin brother and bigoted father.
13) Show me a sign
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
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...
14) Set me free
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
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
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Traveling abroad with missionaries whose plan to “save” deaf children threatens the Wampanoag and other Native peoples’ freedom and safety, young teacher Mary Lambert must decide if her own goals are worth the price of betraying her friends and her own values.
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