Hands & hearts by Napoli, Donna Jo 

BTSB Prebound(Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014)

BTSB #: 667347 Available

Dewey: EAges: 3-7   
AR: 2.7 LG

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Hand - Fiction Sign language - Fiction Beaches - Fiction Mother-child relationship - Fiction

Summary: Highlights the bond between a mother and her child while providing a gentle introduction to sign language during their day at the beach.

Set me free by LeZotte, Ann Clare 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2021)

BTSB #: 571209 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


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 by LeZotte, Ann Clare 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2020)

BTSB #: 571212 Temp OS

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.