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Oprah's Book Club Kids Reading List selection "Hope is the thing with feathers" starts the poem Frannie is reading in school. Frannie hasn't thought much about hope. There are so many other things to think about. Each day, her friend Samantha seems a bit more "holy." There is a new boy in class everyone is calling the Jesus Boy. And although the new boy looks like a white kid, he says he's not white. Who is... (more)

I'll Scream Later

by Marlee Matlin

Critically acclaimed and award-winning actress Marlee Matlin reveals the illuminating, moving, and often surprising story of how she defied all expectations to become one of the most prolific and beloved actresses of our time. Marlee Matlin entered our lives as the deaf pupil turned custodian audiences fell in love with in Children of a Lesser God , a role for which she became the youngest woman ever to win a... (more)

The Orange Houses

by Paul Griffin

Meet Tamika Sykes—Mik to her friends (if she had any). She’s hearing impaired and way too smart for her West Bronx high school. She copes by reading lips and selling homework answers, and looks forward to the time each day when she can be alone in her room drawing. She’s a tough girl who never gets close to anyone, until she meets Fatima, a teenage refugee who sells newspapers on Mik’s block. Both Mik and Fatima... (more)

Between, Georgia

by Joshilyn Jackson

Nonny Frett understands the meaning of the phrase "in between a rock and a hard place" better than any woman alive. She's got two mothers, "one deaf-blind and the other four baby steps from flat crazy." She's got two men: a husband who's easing out the back door; and a best friend, who's laying siege to her heart in her front yard. And she has two families: the Fretts, who stole her and raised her right; and the... (more)

The Art of Sign Language (Pocket Guide Series)

The Art of Sign Language (Pocket Guide Series)

by Christopher Brown

Learning sign language is a rewarding experience that leads to greater communication skills. This basic introduction guide is for people without any prior knowledge of sign. The approach to "Signed English" is based upon the way a child would first be taught a language. In 17 sections, The Art of Sign Language teaches by using themed exercises about topics such as everyday communication, the body, home, school,... (more)

The Silent Duchess

by Dacia Maraini

Winner of the Premio Campiello (Italy's equivalent of the National Book Award), short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Award upon its first English-language publication in the U.K., and published to critical acclaim in fourteen languages, this mesmerizing historical novel by one of Italy's premier women writers is available in the United States for the first time. Set in Sicily in the early eighteenth... (more)

A Quiet World: Living with Hearing Loss

by David G. Myers

How do millions of people cope with hearing loss? How can medicine and technology help? In this engaging and practical book, social psychologist David G. Myers explores the problems of the hard of hearing from a first-hand perspective. He offers advice for those with hearing problems and their families and friends as well as hopeful information on new technology and surgical procedures.

Communicating in Sign: Creative Ways to Learn American Sign Language (ASL) (A Flying Hands Book)

Communicating in Sign: Creative Ways to Learn American Sign Language (ASL) (A Flying Hands Book)

by Diane P. Chambers

American Sign Language (ASL) is the primary means of communication among the 22 million deaf and hard-of-hearing people in this country -- and those who live and work with them. Communicating in Sign revolutionizes the way ASL is taught by offering a beginning vocabulary based on the grammar and syntax of native signers and illustrating the eye contact, facial expressions, and body language that accompany hand... (more)

Moses Goes to School (Moses Goes to)

by Isaac Millman

He and all of his classmates are deaf or hard-of-hearing, but that doesn't mean they don't have a lot to say to each other! They communicate in American Sign Language (ASL), using visual signs and facial expressions. Isaac Millman follows Moses through a school day, telling the story in pictures and written English, and in ASL, introducing hearing children to the signs for some of the key words and ideas. At the... (more)

The Feel Of Silence (Health Society And Policy)

The Feel Of Silence (Health Society And Policy)

by Bonnie P. Tucker

A memoir of the author's experience as a profoundly deaf infant who became an expert lipreader, and who never learned sign language or met another deaf person until her mid-thirties. It follows her story as she made it through college, to become a corporate litigator.

Dad and Me in the Morning

by Patricia Lakin

Early one morning, when it is still dark, a young boy wakes to his special alarm clock. He puts on his hearing aid and his clothes, then goes to wake his father. Together they walk down to the beach. Jacob cannot hear, so he and his father sign or lipread or just squeeze each other's hands. This poetic story is beautifully illustrated in glowing watercolors.

Apple Is My Sign (Sandpiper Houghton Mifflin Books)

Apple Is My Sign (Sandpiper Houghton Mifflin Books)

by Mary Riskind

A ten-year-old boy returns to his parents' apple farm for the holidays after his first term at a school for the deaf in Philadelphia.

The Smart Princess and Other Deaf Tales

by Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf

This book is suitable for ages 5-9. It is a groundbreaking deaf culture storybook anthology written by deaf children themselves.

What The Doctor Ordered (Fairweather) (Love Inspired)

What The Doctor Ordered (Fairweather) (Love Inspired)

by Cheryl Wolverton

Reading Between the Lips: A Totally Deaf Man Makes It in the Mainstream

Reading Between the Lips: A Totally Deaf Man Makes It in the Mainstream

by Lew Golan

Born in Chicago in 1934, Golan became deaf at age six as the result of a meningitis attack. Since he had been talking for four years, he was in the category of the postlingually deaf, which led his parents to determine that he should be trained in speech and lip-reading, rather than in signing. He attended the University of Chicago, studied journalism at the University of Illinois and became a successful freelance... (more)

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Feathers

by Jacqueline Woodson