Sail me away home [Show Me A Sign Volume: Book 3]by LeZotte, Ann Clare 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2023)

BTSB #: 571205 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.6 MG

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Deaf - Fiction People with disabilities - Fiction Sign language - Fiction Americans - France - Paris - Fiction Missionaries - Fiction Paris (France) - History|y19th century - Fiction France - History|y19th century - Fiction

Summary: Fourteen-year-old teacher, Mary Lambert, travels to Paris where she encounters a wellspring of formalized deaf education and sign language, but when she discovers the missionaries' questionable plan to "save" deaf children, she must decide if pursuing her goals is worth betraying her friends.

Set me free [Show Me A Sign Volume: Book 2]by LeZotte, Ann Clare 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2021)

BTSB #: 571209 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.2 MG Lexile: 720

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Deaf - Fiction People with disabilities - Fiction Education - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction Secrets - Fiction Sign language - Fiction Massachusetts - History|y19th century - Fiction Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) - History|y19th century - Fiction

Summary: 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 to find that there is more to the child's story, and that freeing her from a world of silence and imprisonment may be more dangerous than anyone anticipated.

Show me a sign by LeZotte, Ann Clare 

Paperback(Scholastic, 2021)

BTSB #: 571210 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.1 MG Lexile: 730 F&P: Y

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Deaf - Fiction People with disabilities - Fiction Kidnapping - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction Human experimentation in medicine - Fiction Sign language - Fiction Chilmark (Mass.) - History|y19th century - Fiction Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) - History|y19th century - Fiction

Summary: 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' deafness has decided she makes the perfect "live specimen"--and kidnapped her.

Show me a sign [Show Me A Sign Volume: Book 1]by LeZotte, Ann Clare 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2020)

BTSB #: 571212 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.1 MG Lexile: 730 F&P: Y

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Deaf - Fiction People with disabilities - Fiction Kidnapping - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction Human experimentation in medicine - Fiction Sign language - Fiction Chilmark (Mass.) - History|y19th century - Fiction Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) - History|y19th century - Fiction

Summary: 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' deafness has decided she makes the perfect "live specimen"--and kidnapped her.

We built this city by Patrick, Cat 

BTSB Prebound(Nancy Paulsen, 2024)

BTSB #: 703565 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
Lexile: 850 F&P: Z

Genres: Humorous Fiction

Subjects: Friendship - Fiction Interpersonal relations - Fiction Sign language - Fiction Deaf - Fiction

Summary: As Stevie tours with her sign-language group during the summer of 1985, she writes to famous radio jockey Casey Kasem to reveal her feelings towards her crush live over the air.