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Author
Publisher
Scholastic
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
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Part coming of age, part call to action, this fast-paced #ownvoices novel about a Deaf teenager is a unique and inspiring exploration of what it means to belong. Smart, artistic, and independent, sixteen year old Piper is tired of trying to conform. Her mom wants her to be "normal," to pass as hearing, to get a good job. But in a time of food scarcity, environmental collapse, and political corruption, Piper has other things on her mind--like survival....
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"It’s the summer of 1985, when air guitar, jelly bracelets, and huge hair are all the rage, and twelve-year-old Stevie is finally old enough to go on her performing troupe’s annual cross-country tour. Twenty-six teen cast members will lip-synch and dance their way through more than twenty cities, and Stevie and her best friend, Wes, can’t wait—for more reasons than one!"--
9) Hear me
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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
Ruby Lu series volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006.
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.
Author
Publisher
Alfred. A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When Will Halpin transfers from his all-deaf school into a mainstream Pennsylvania high school, he faces discrimination and bullying, but still manages to solve a mystery surrounding the death of a popular football player in his class.
12) Impossible music
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In a class for the newly deaf, former musician Simon meets G and his quest to create an entirely new form of music helps him better understand her, himself, and his relationship to the hearing world.
15) Party problems
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Emma is excited about her best friend Izzie's birthday party, but she is also a little worried because she is deaf and communicates through sign language, and her cochlear implant does not work well in noisy crowds.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A hearing boy and his deaf parents from Brooklyn enjoy the rides, food, and sights of 1930's Coney Island where the father longs to know about how everything sounds and his son tries to interpret the noisy surroundings through sign language and a wealth of new words learned from a trip to the library.
17) Friendship goals
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Emma, who is deaf and wears a cochlear implant, loves playing soccer with her friends Izzie and Chen, but when Izzie gets discouraged and wants to quit, Emma and Chen take the time to show her that improvement comes through practice. Includes discussion questions, writing prompts, an ASL fingerspelling chart, and a sign language guide.
18) Crazy for apples
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Emma, a deaf girl, and her best friend Izzie are going to the apple orchard today in order to pick apples for cooking, but their basket of apples ends up in the mud. Includes an ASL fingerspelling chart, glossary, and content-related questions.--
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
Maya has reservations about transferring to a hearing school after studying in a school for the deaf for years, but grows closer to Beau Watson, the student body president, who starts learning sign language to communicate with her.
Moving halfway across the country to Colorado right before senior year means Maya will be leaving Pratt School for the Deaf. She's been a student there for years; to attend Engelmann High, a hearing school, is a shock....
20) All he knew
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
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.
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