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Ability Diverse Reads: Hearing, Speech & Language
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A Song Below Water
by Bethany C. Morrow
A metaphorical tale follows the experiences of a black teen siren and her haunted best friend, who find themselves targeted by violence when they are unable to hide their supernatural identities in an alternate world that discriminates against magic.
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Impossible Music
by Sean Williams
Devastated by a stroke that causes him to lose his hearing, a teen musician resists transition therapy before a tough new friend challenges him to create a new music form that helps him better understand his relationship to the hearing world. 30,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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A silent voice
by Yoshitoki Ōima
Shoya Ishida seeks redemption years after bullying Shoko Nishimiya, an elementary school classmate with impaired hearing whom he taunted to such a degree that she was forced to change schools.
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You're Welcome, Universe
by Whitney Gardner
When Julia gets kicked out of the Kingston School for the Deaf for putting up an illegal mural, she is moved to a mainstream school in the suburbs where she starts putting up more art, but she soon finds that someone is showing off their skills by addingto her tags
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A Quiet Kind of Thunder
by Sara Barnard
Steffi doesn't talk. Rhys can't hear. They understand each other perfectly. 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 that Steffi doesn't talk and, as they find ways to communicate, Steffi finds that she does have a voice, and that she's falling in love with the one person who makes her feel brave enough to use it.
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There will be lies
by Nick Lake
Shelby Cooper, nearly eighteen, has been overprotected by her single mother all her life but after a car accident, Shelby's life is transformed not only by the discovery of secrets about herself, but also by trips into "The Dreaming," where she is sent on a heroic quest wrapped in Native American mythology.
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Piper
by Jay Asher
An evocative graphic novel adaptation of the classic Pied Piper legend follows the experiences of a shunned girl who believes her dream of a fairy-tale love has come true when she falls for a mysterious man with a dark past. Co-written by the best-selling author of Thirteen Reasons Why. Original. Simultaneous eBook.
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Wonderstruck : A Novel in Words and Pictures
by Brian Selznick
Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life
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Show Me A Sign
by Ann Clare LeZotte
The Deaf librarian and author of T4 draws on the true history of a thriving 19th-century Deaf community on Martha’s Vineyard in the story of a girl whose proud lineage is threatened by land disputes with the Wampanoag and a ruthlessly ambitious scientist. Simultaneous eBook.
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El Deafo
by Cece Bell
The author recounts in graphic novel format her experiences with hearing loss at a young age, including using a bulky hearing aid, learning how to lip read, and determining her "superpower."
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Every Body's Talking : What We Say without Words
by Donna M. Jackson
Examines the complexities of body language, explaining what is conveyed by certain facial expressions, movements, and actions, and how body language can exhibit signs of deception.
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Almost American Girl
by Robin Ha
Moving abruptly from Seoul to Alabama, a Korean teen struggles in a hostile blended home and a new school where she does not speak English before forging unexpected connections in a local comic drawing class.
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