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Author
Series
Daughters of Blessing volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Life in Blessing, North Dakota, becomes difficult when courageous and gentle Grace Knutson is presented with an agonizing dilema.
4) Feathers
Author
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.
5) Hear me
Author
Language
English
Description
"After being diagnosed with progressive hearing loss, Rayne resists her parents' efforts to "fix" her and rethinks her own assumptions about what her condition means for her"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Deaf-mute John Singer becomes the confidant for various types of misfits in a Georgia mill town during the 1930s. Each one yearns for escape from small town life. When Singer's mute companion goes insane, Singer moves into the Kelly house, where Mick Kelly, the book's heroine (and loosely based on McCullers), finds solace in her music.
Author
Series
Indiana cousins volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
An accident leaves Jolene Yoder deaf and rebuilding her life as a teacher to deaf children in her hometown. Ella Miller, Jolene's cousin, worries Jolene will have her heart broken by Jake Beechy, but Jake has his heart set on someone else.
10) Song for a whale
Author
Language
English
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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
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sam is fascinated by her new neighbors and their ability to talk with their hands, and when she meets Mai, she starts to learn Filipino sign language so they can communicate. Includes dictionary of Philippine signs.
13) Silent lotus
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Lotus is a very beautiful girl who can neither hear nor speak but wants to be one of the king's dancers.
14) The printer
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
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Description
A boy recalls the day his deaf father saved everyone's life when fire broke out at the newspaper printing plant where he worked.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Steffi doesn't talk. Rhys can't hear. They understand each other perfectly. Love isn't always a lightning strike. Sometimes it's the rumbling roll of thunder ... Steffi has been a selective mute for most of her life - she's been silent for so long that she feels completely invisible. But Rhys, the new boy at school, sees her. He's deaf, and her knowledge of basic sign language means that she's assigned to look after him. To Rhys it doesn't matter...
Author
Publisher
Blink
Language
English
Formats
Description
After moving to Colorado, deaf seventeen-year-old Maya is forced to attend a hearing school, where she must navigate a new life and prove that her lack of hearing will not stop her from pursuing her dreams. Includes an interview with the author.
17) Leading ladies
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
A deaf fourth-grader finds her true calling when she is cast as Dorothy in a school production of "The Wizard of Oz."
18) Huckleberry Lake
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Taking a position on her uncle's ranch, former police officer Erin De Laney works closely with deaf cowboy Wyatt Fitzgerald who, hesitant to pursue a romantic relationship, is determined to keep her at arm's length until she shows him that love can heal almost anything
19) The raging quiet
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Suspicious of sixteen-year-old Marnie, a newcomer to their village, the residents accuse her of witchcraft when she discovers the village madman is not crazy, but deaf, and begins to communicate with him through hand gestures.
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