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Author
Series
Blackbird Mountain novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
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
Series
Daughters of blessing volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
She thought she knew what she wanted in life . . . then Jonathan arrived.Eighteen-year-old Grace Knutson loves Blessing, North Dakota, and sees no reason to leave. She's more serious-minded than her twin sister, Sophie, and very sensitive to the feelings of others. In spite of her family's disapproval, Grace has always had a soft spot in her heart for Toby Valders, for she's seen the vulnerable side he keeps well hidden. Jonathan Gould, the handsome...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin company
Pub. Date
1940.
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the publication of her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is the deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for various types...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Abigail, a young midwife, is sent to jail after a difficult delivery takes a devastating turn. Her sister, Catherine, comes to stay and help care for Abigail's children while Abigail's husband works the field. Catherine meets Isaiah, a deaf man thought to be simpleminded, and discovers that he possesses unexpected gifts and talents.
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Loyal Raines is supposed to stay close to home on a hot summer day in 1934. When he slips away for a quick swim in the river and finds a dead body, the ripples caused by his discovery will impact the town in ways no one could have imagined"--
7) Silent Lotus
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Although she cannot speak or hear, Lotus trains as a Khmer court dancer and becomes eloquent in dancing out the legends of the gods.
Author
Series
Mystic Creek novels volume 6
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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
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"--
One year after being diagnosed with hearing loss, Rayne's hearing keeps getting worse, even with aids. Friendships and school are a struggle, surfing is now a wipeout, and she can't understand her favorite singer's lyrics. Rayne's parents are pushing for her to get cochlear...
10) Nobody's perfect
Author
Series
Deaf child crossing volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Megan, a popular and outgoing fourth-grader, is sure that the "perfect" new girl dislikes her because she is deaf, but persistence and a joint science fair project help Megan see that the two girls have something in common after all.
Author
Series
Keystone Stables volume 4
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Having taken a crash course in American Sign Language, Camp Tioga junior counselor Skye tries to communicate with a troublesome camper who is deaf, and when he disappears on horseback into the hills, she and Chad lead the rescue team.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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.
13) Resurrection Bay
Author
Series
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Caleb Zelic is on the hunt for his friend's killer. He may be deaf, but he never forgets a face. It might just save his life"--
14) Tuck triumphant
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
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."
Author
Series
Deaf child crossing volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002.
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.
16) Feathers
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2007.
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
Pushkin Vertigo
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A woman accosts Caleb in the street, asking for help. Minutes later, she's dead. The search for her killer will take Caleb back to his hometown of Resurrection Bay, where all it takes is a single spark to ignite an inferno of violence.
18) Hurt go happy
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Joey Willis, deaf since the age of six, meets Dr. Charles Mansell and his chimpanzee Sukari, who use sign language, her world blooms with possibilities but that of the chimp begins to narrow.
19) Singing hands
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In the late 1940s, twelve-year-old Gussie, a minister's daughter, learns the definition of integrity while helping with a celebration at the Alabama School for the Deaf--her punishment for misdeeds against her deaf parents and their boarders.
Author
Series
Indiana cousins volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jolene Yoder returns to Indiana to teach lip reading and sign language to the newly deaf Amish man Lonnie Hershberger. As she begins falling for Lonnie, Jolene wonders if she'll ever see "signs" of his love for her. Lovelorn Lonnie is fighting his attraction to Jolene, especially since she seems smitten by Jake Beechy. And Ella Miller is worried the roving Jake will end up breaking her cousin Jolene's heart, never realizing that Jake has really set...
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