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Show me a sign
Author: LeZotte, Ann Clare

Publisher: Scholastic Press (2020)

Classification: Fiction
Physical Description: 269 p., 22 cm

BTSB No: 571212

ISBN: 9781338255812

Ages: 8-12

Grades: 3-7

Subjects:
Deaf -- Fiction
People with disabilities -- Fiction
Kidnapping -- Fiction
Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction
Human experimentation in medicine -- Fiction
Sign language -- Fiction
Chilmark (Mass.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction

Price: $6.50

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.

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Accelerated Reader Information:
   Interest Level: MG
   Reading Level: 5.10
   Points: 7.0   Quiz: 506689

Reviews:
   Kirkus Reviews (+) (11/15/19)
   School Library Journal (+) (03/01/20)
   Booklist (02/01/20)
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (A) (00/03/20)
The Hornbook (00/09/20)

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