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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Near-future Australia is controlled by Organicore, a company that produces the "perfectly balanced" synthetic meals that have all but replaced wild food, but Piper McBride, sixteen, deaf, and cued white, begins to wonder if wild food is as dangerous as Organicore's propaganda says.
Author
Series
Show me a sign volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes...
Author
Series
Show me a sign volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As a young teacher on Martha's Vineyard, Mary Lambert feels restless and adrift. So when a league of missionaries invite her to travel abroad, she knows it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. Paris is home to a pioneering deaf school where she could meet its visionary instructors Jean Massieu and Laurent Clerc--and even bring back their methods to help advance formal deaf education in America! But the endeavor comes at a cost: The missionaries' plan...
4) Set me free
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three years after being kidnapped 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...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Read the world to change the world! This artful picture book about friendship and sign language, originally published in the Philippines in concert with nonprofit Room to Read, is beautifully revised for this global edition.
Our new neighbors' hands are dancing. Their hands move as if to music. What are they saying to each other?
Sam's new neighbors'; hands make graceful movements she doesn't recognize, and she wonders what they are saying....
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a gorilla who knows sign language tells his keepers that he is lonely, they bring him a very special friend.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Highlights the bond between a mother and her child while providing a gentle introduction to sign language during their day at the beach"--
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Young Children
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
The true story of how one little girl inspired a whole new language--American Sign Language--as well as the founding of a school where it could be taught.
10) Play time
Series
Publisher
Child's Play
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Teaches young children forty everyday signs taken from American Sign Language.
Author
Series
After-school superstars volume 4
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Boogie Bass feels his best friend, Nolan, is better than he at everything, even caring for Boogie's little brothers, but an after-school camp reveals Boogie's talent at communicating using American Sign Language. Includes facts about ASL.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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...
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