Gideon ahoy! / Mayne, William

Gideon is sixteen-years-old, deaf, and unable to speak. A friend finds him work on a canal barge. All is well until the day he takes the initiative.

Twelve-year-old Eva's chaotic but cheerful family life in a small English town changes when Gideon, her brain-damaged deaf older brother, gets a job opening bridges and locks for the local canalboat.