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Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit illegal) graffiti mural. Her supposed best friend snitches, the principal expels her, and her two mothers set Julia up with a one-way ticket to a "mainstream" school in the suburbs, where she's treated like an outcast as the only deaf student. The last thing she has left is her art, and not even Banksy...
22) Song for a whale
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Iris and her grandmother, both deaf, drive from Texas to Alaska armed with Iris's plan to help Blue-55, a whale unable to communicate with other whales.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Thor Norgaard hasn't spoken to anyone in his twenty-eight years, but when the young widow he loves crosses an ocean to live on his Appalachian farm, this reclusive alcoholic will brave much more than words to heal her heart"--
When Aven Norgaard leaves Norway to serve as housekeeper to her late husband's cousins in Appalachia, she expects lads in need of care, not three grown men, each in need of a wife and bound by a powerful brotherhood. As the...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Indonesian
Description
After his son witnesses a brutal murder committed by a notorious crime boss, a deaf gangster is pitted against his own mob organization and thrust into the fight of his life when he takes on his dangerous former allies, including a sociopathic assassin, in order to protect his child.
26) Not a sound
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a tragic accident leaves nurse Amelia Winn deaf, she spirals into a depression that ultimately causes her to lose everything that matters -- her job, her husband, David, and her stepdaughter, Nora. Now, two years later and with the help of her hearing dog, Stitch, she is finally getting back on her feet. But when she discovers the body of a fellow nurse in the dense bush by the river, deep in the woods near her cabin, she is plunged into a disturbing...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
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 thehalls 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...
28) Feathers
Author
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
Series
Publisher
Amicus Illustrated
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Danton! He loves his dogs and playing football. He's also deaf. Danton is real and so are his experiences. Learn about his life in this illustrated narrative nonfiction picture book for elementary students." --
31) Cowboy Colt
Author
Series
Backyard horses volume 2
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Fourth-graders Ellie and Colt have been best friends since kindergarten, but when Colt starts treating Ellie badly and even ignores her younger, deaf brother, she wonders if she should continue to pray for a horse for Colt, as she has been ever since she got her own horse.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books/Jeter Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
The first deaf athlete to play offense in the NFL--and win a Super Bowl with the Seattle Seahawks--relates his story of hard work and determination on his challenging journey to become a professional football player.
33) The quiet
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen presentation.
Language
English
Description
When a deaf girl moves in with her godparents and their daughter, she finds out that not everything is as it seems, and secrets can be heard even when you can't.
Author
Series
Blackbird Mountain novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"From Christy Award-winning author Joanne Bischof comes the sequel to her beautiful novel Sons of Blackbird Mountain. Two brothers were raised to know that Viking blood runs in their veins. But when it comes to passion and rivalry, they're desperate to discover if God's peace can dwell in their hearts"--
35) Sound and fury
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Standard format.
Language
English
Description
A family with several deaf members is divided over whether to allow their children to undergo cochlear implants, a controversial medical procedure that can allow some hearing to take place. Some members are concerned about the loss of the deaf culture in their family.
Author
Series
Deaf child crossing volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2004, c2002
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Despite the fact that Megan is deaf and Cindy can hear, the two girls become friends when Cindy moves into Megan's neighborhood, but when they go away to camp, their friendship is put to the test.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gambling everything, including the family farm, Cullen McNamara travels to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with his most recent invention. But the noise in the Fair's Machinery Palace makes it impossible to communicate with potential buyers. In an act of desperation, he hires Della Wentworth, a teacher of the deaf, to tutor him in the art of lip-reading. The young teacher is reluctant to participate, and Cullen has trouble keeping his mind on his lessons...
Author
Series
Ruby Lu series volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
After Ruby Lu's deaf cousin, Flying Duck, and her parents come from China to live with her, Ruby finds life challenging as she adjusts to her new family, tries to mend her rocky relationship with her friend Emma, and faces various adventures in summer school.
Publisher
Two Little Hands Productions
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Teaches 30 American Sign Language signs. Combines signing children and infants, animation and music, and an adult to model each sign. Teaches babies to sign before they can speak. Includes sign concepts like friend, play, please, thank you, etc.
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