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Teen Reads with Hard of Hearing and Deaf Characters
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The whispering dark
by Kelly Andrew
After being assigned to her university's prestigious and controversial neo-anthropological studies program, eighteen-year-old deaf student Delaney Meyers-Petrov must learn to channel her ability to slip between worlds--and, along with her capricious TA Colton Price, who seems determined to despise her, must uncover buried institutional secrets
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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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Hear me
by Kerry O'Malley Cerra
Taking a bus trip before surgery for cochlear implants, Rayne must face her own assumptions about what her hearing loss means and what kind of life she could have, learning that even though her ears may be broken, she is not.
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Sugaring off
by Gillian French
"Living on her aunt and uncle's maple sugar farm, 17-year-old Owl, partially deaf from an early childhood tragedy that ended in her father's incarceration, risks a forbidden romance with a dangerous young man hired to help with the sugaring off. 25,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook."
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The reckless kind
by Carly Heath
In 1904 Norway, after the man she is being forced to marry gravely injures her best friend, Asta Hedstrom moves him and her secret boyfriend to a secluded cabin above town, where they fight for the survival of their newfound family. Simultaneous eBook.
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The sword of summer
by Rick Riordan
Living on the streets of Boston after the death of his mother, Magnus is told by a mysterious stranger that he is the son of a Norse god and must track down a lost ancient sword to stop a war being waged by mythical monsters, in the first book of a new series by the internationally best-selling author of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the Kane Chronicles, and the Heroes of Olympus series.
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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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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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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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Phoenix song. Echo
by Rebecca Roanhorse
"From the pages of AVENGERS comes a hero transformed! Maya Lopez, the Deaf hero known as Echo, already knows a little bit about death and rebirth--and now she has become the new host of the cosmic Phoenix Force! With its galactic fire burning in her veins, the always adaptable Echo is learning how to use her incredible new abilities. But she's about to come into conflict with certain X-Men who know exactly how dangerous the Phoenix can be! Meanwhile, an ancient demon wants to claim Echo's newfound power--and the fight to keep the Phoenix Force safe will push Maya to her very limits!"
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The sea in you
by Jessica Sheron
When fifteen-year-old Corinth encounters Skylla, a young mermaid, at the beach, a dangerous bond grows between the two, and a magical bargain may be the only thing that can save them, at a tremendous cost
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