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Burn down the ground

a memoir
2012
Kambri Crews recounts her life with deaf parents in rural Texas, and describes her conflicted relationship with her father who is in prison.
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Of sound mind

Tired of interpreting for his deaf family and resentful of their reliance on him, high school senior Theo finds support and understanding from Ivy, a new student who also has a deaf parent.

Hurt go happy

When thirteen-year-old Joey Willis, deaf since the age of six, meets Dr. Charles Mansell and his chimpanzee Sukari, who use sign language, her world blooms with possibilities but that of the chimp begins to narrow.

Silent days, silent dreams

2017
A fictional biography of James Castle, a deaf, autistic artist whose drawings hang in major museums throughout the world.

Silent days, silent dreams

2017
A fictional biography of James Castle, a deaf, autistic artist whose drawings hang in major museums throughout the world.

Deaf culture

exploring deaf communities in the United States
Explores Deaf culture and how it fits into education, psychology, cultural studies, technology, and the arts.

Rocky road

2012
Fashion-loving twelve-year-old Tess moves with her deaf younger brother and impulsive single mother to Schenectady, New York, where they open an ice-cream shop and lead a campaign for urban renewal.

Wonderstruck

2011
Relates the stories of twelve-year-old Ben, who loses his mother and his hearing in a short time frame and decides to leave his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he has never known in New York City; and Rose, who lives with her father but feels compelled to search for what is missing in her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.

Kyle finds her way

2016
On her first day in sixth grade Kyle Constantini punches a bully who is bothering Marcy, a deaf classmate--and so begins her tumultuous year at Georgia O'Keeffe Middle School, in a different school than her twin brother, with new friends, new enemies, and the regional NAVS competition to come.

The miracle worker

2001
Dramatizes the story of how Boston teacher Annie Sullivan struggled to communicate with and teach her deaf, blind, and mute student, Helen Keller.

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