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61) 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
Moses volume 2
Publisher
Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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.
63) The printer
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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.
64) Indiana cousins
Author
Series
Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Faith and Romance from an Indiana Amish Community On a quiet September weekend, plans for a fun outing turn tragic when a vanload of Amish teenagers from Indiana is struck by a semi-truck. Four young women are forever changed by the event. A Cousin's Promise Loraine Miller's fiancé is severely injured and breaks their engagement. Will he sacrifice his happiness to give Loraine a better life? When her ex-boyfriend returns, Loraine's heart is torn....
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Budding screenwriter Nate, sixteen, finds his conviction that happy endings do not happen in real life sorely tested when his childhood best friend and crush, Oliver James Hernandez, moves back to town.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
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.
67) Crazy for apples
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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.
68) Give me a sign
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Lilah, who wears hearing aids, returns to a summer camp for the Deaf and Blind as a counselor, eager to improve her ASL and find her place in the community, but she did not expect to also find romance along the way.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In Brooklyn, New York, in 1947, 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.
70) The raging quiet
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Suspicious of sixteen-year-old Marnie, a newcomer to their village, the residents accuse her of witchcraft when she discovers that the village madman is not crazy but deaf and she begins to communicate with him through hand gestures.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Jackson Ghasnavi is a lot of things—a techie, a smoothie afficionado, a totally not obsessive list-maker—but one thing he’s not is a romantic. And why would he be? He’s already had a front row seat to his parents’ divorce and picked up the pieces of his sister Jasmine’s broken heart one too many times. No, Jackson is perfectly happy living life behind the scenes—he is a stage manager, after all—and keeping his romantic exploits limited...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Emma and her third grade class are going on a field trip to the American History Museum and must write about an exhibit they enjoyed; her best friend Izzie likes the first ladies' gowns, but Emma decides that her favorite is the portraits of the presidents. Includes an ASL fingerspelling chart, glossary, and content-related questions.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ruthie Tober's family is known for the beautiful, warm mittens they knit so when she and her mother meet a deaf woman and her baby and give them shelter, Ruthie decides to design very special mittens for them.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In this powerful and inspiring picture book, a deaf girl stands up for herself and takes off her shoes while dancing at her Carnival performance so she can feel the music through her bare feet. Cesaria is going to perform for the seaside Carnival. She skips past the beach barefoot, dressed in her favorite peacock leotard. But when her dance director tells her she must put on her shoes to go on stage, Cesaria signs, “Peacocks don’t wear shoes!”...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A very rare chance to see characters with disabilities represented on the page and a harsh light shed on the way that Japanese culture handles this difficult topic." -Comics Bulletin This deluxe, large-sized hardcover includes the first half of the story of A Silent Voice, extending from the second half of Vol. 4 through the end of the series, as well as over fifty pages of content never published in English before, such as the early drafts of the...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the Nazi party takes control of Germany, thirteen-year-old Paula, who is deaf, finds her world-as-she-knows-it turned upside down, as she is taken into hiding to protect her from the new law nicknamed T4.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Emma is taking tap dance lessons and she wants to learn the routine perfectly, but it is not easy because the tapping of the dancers makes it difficult for her cochlear implant to pick up the final notes of the music and so her timing is off--but with a little help from her teacher and her best friend Izzie, Emma will make it work. Includes an ASL fingerspelling chart, glossary, and content-related questions.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Moving halfway across the country to Colorado right before senior year isn't Mayas idea of a good time. Leaving behind Pratt School for the Deaf where she's been a student for years only to attend a hearing school is even worse. Maya has dreams of breaking into the medical field and is determined to get the grades and a college degree to match, and she's never considered being Deaf a disability. But her teachers and classmates at Engelmann High don't...