‘Show Me a Sign’ shows competence of deaf people
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SHOW ME A SIGN
by Ann Clare LeZotte
Show Me a Sign is set in 1805 on Martha’s Vineyard, where historically an unusually high proportion of the population was deaf; in one community as many as one in four people were deaf from birth. Everyone speaks sign language, whether they are ‘hearing’ or deaf, and the reader quickly gets used to seeing the word ‘signed’ instead of ‘said’.
In the family of the engaging narrator, eleven-year-old Mary Lambert, she and her father are deaf while her mother and brother are hearing. At a time before the principles of heredity were understood, this apparently random distribution of deafness is a mystery which attracts the attention of a young scientist from the mainland, Andrew Noble.
Tristan Strong Destroys the World,” by Kwame Mbalia.
Bestselling author Rick Riordan publishes this New York Times best-selling and award-winning series from Mbalia. They’re fantastic. According to the synopsis:
Strong, just back from Alke, the land of African American folk heroes and African gods, is suffering from PTSD. But there s no rest for the weary when his grandmother is abducted. Tristan must return to Alke to rescue Nana and stop the culprit from creating further devastation…
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I love everything about this book.
A beautiful New York Times bestseller and Newbery Honor Book about a young girl, Jude, who has to leave her dad and brother in Syria, and a travel to Cincinnati with her mother to stay with relatives. Here Jude is called Middle Eastern, an identity she s never known before.