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Alexander Graham Bell

setting the tone for communication
Examines the life and career of inventor Alexander Graham Bell.

Helen Keller

Introduces young readers to the life and accomplishments of Helen Keller, describing how she succeeded despite being both blind and deaf.

Helen's big world

the life of Helen Keller
An illustrated biography of Helen Keller, introducing young readers to her life and legacy, and including quotations by Keller.

Hoggee

Always overshadowed by his competitive older brother, especially in their work as mule drivers on the Erie Canal, fourteen-year-old Howard finally finds the courage to pursue his dreams of becoming an educator after he learns about sign language and teaches it to his deaf friend in nineteenth-century New York State.
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Quie n fue Helen Keller?

Tells Helen Keller's life story, describing her loss of her sight and hearing in childhood, her learning of language skills with the help of Annie Sullivan, her work to earn her college degree, her fame, and her efforts to help others with disabilities.

Helen Keller

the story of my life
Contains an adaptation of the autobiography of Helen Keller in which she tells of her early life, her relationship with her teacher Anne Sullivan, and her struggles to triumph over blindness and deafness; and includes selected letters.

Song for a whale

2019
Twelve-year-old Iris and her grandmother, both deaf, drive from Texas to Alaska armed with Iris's plan to help Blue-55, a whale unable to communicate with other whales.

Helen Keller

A biography of Helen Keller, who was born without sight and the ability to hear, but was able to overcome her disabilities with the aid of her teacher, Anne Sullivan.

T4

a novel in verse
After the Nazi party takes control of Germany, thirteen-year-old Paula, who is deaf, is forced to go into hiding because of Adolf Hitler's Tiegartenstrasse 4--T4--which was put in place to kill any mentally ill or disabled people.

Gymnastics queen

The Summer Olympics inspires Kylie Jean Carter to take gymnastics lessons, but even better than that is making a new friend, Abby, who is deaf, and starting to learn sign language.
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