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"Mandy Harvey's journey is a reaffirmation of what I told reporters after I won my Academy Award, 'Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.' Mandy will never let deafness silence her, and she has aptly proven that deaf people can do ANYTHING." -Marlee Matlin, Academy Award winner The inspiring true story of Mandy Harvey-a young woman who became deaf at age nineteen while pursuing a degree in music-and how she overcame adversity...
23) Tuck triumphant
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Fourteen-year-old Helen, her blind dog Friar Tuck, and her family face some dramatic challenges when they discover that the Korean boy they have adopted is deaf. Sequel to "The Trouble with Tuck."
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English
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"Ten years ago while on rumspringa, Rebecca Miller and her friends were kidnapped and held captive...and now, living in the English world, she's nearly abducted again. One by one her friends who once helped send their abductor to jail are targeted, and she is next...unless police officer Miles Olsen can stop a killer. Deaf since birth, the only person on the force that Rebecca can communicate with is Miles, and he needs this case to redeem himself...
25) Cat care
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English
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Emma is eager to foster Mittens the cat, but she did not anticipate the chaos a cat can cause--but than Mittens disappears.
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English
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This is a guide for mastering the current basic signs used to communicate with deaf people in either the word order of the English language or in the American Sign Language pattern. It provides the basic vocabulary needed for persons entering interpreter training programs. Over 1500 signs have been illustrated and are grouped by chapter into their natural categories. Includes line drawings and step-by-step descriptions of positions and movements,...
28) Party problems
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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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.
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Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"A biography of William "Dummy" Hoy, who pursued his love of baseball and became the first deaf player to have a long career in the Major Leagues, where he accumulated records and top-ranking statistics. Includes an afterword, author's sources, and historical photograph"--Provided by publisher.
30) Feathers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"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....
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Paige Northwood novels volume 3
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English
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"A FIRE. A MURDER. A SILENT SUSPECT... On a quiet street, one house is burning to the ground...By the time sign language interpreter Paige Northwood arrives, flames have engulfed her client's home. Though Lukas is safe, his wife is still inside. But she was dead before the fire started... Lukas signs to Paige that he knows who killed his wife. But then he goes silent - even when the police charge him with murder. Is he guilty, or afraid? Only Paige...
34) Set me free
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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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...
35) First flight
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English
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Emma and her family are going to visit Aunt Betty who has a farm, but Emma has never flown before and she is a little nervous.
36) Pottery project
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English
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Best friends Emma and Izzie take a pottery class together and make a new friend. Includes an ASL fingerspelling chart and a sign language guide.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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"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." --
38) Silent Lotus
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Although unable to speak or hear, lovely Lotus learns to perform the intricate story dances of the Cambodian court ballet.
39) All he knew
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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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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Moses volume 2
Publisher
Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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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.
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