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2) True biz
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English
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"True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history final, and have doctors, politicians, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is rocked...
Author
Series
Moses volume 2
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Moses and his friends enjoy the first day of school at their special school for the deaf and hard of hearing, where they use sign language to talk to each other.
Author
Series
Paige Northwood volume 1
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"If someone was in your house, you'd know. Wouldn't you? But the Hunter family are deaf, and don't hear a thing when a shocking crime takes place in the middle of the night. Instead, they wake up to their worst nightmare. The police call Paige Northwood to the scene to interpret for the witnesses. They're in shock, but Paige senses the Hunters are hiding something.One by one, people Paige knows from the Deaf community start to fall under suspicion....
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The first time I met Ian Kemp in the sparkling blue water of St. Thomas, I was six years old and we shared a summer beneath the stars. The second time I met Ian Kemp, he was a shell of the boy I once knew. Turbulent and infuriating, he refused my friendship at every turn./ Like me, he was a casualty of life's cruelty, but we were planets apart. We'd both sought refuge on the island, hoping to find out anchor. Instead we found each other and managed...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When animal behaviorist Guy Schermerhorn demonstrates on a TV game show that he has taught Sam, his juvenile chimp, to speak in sign language, Aimee Villard, an undergraduate at Guy's university, is so taken with the performance that she applies to become his assistant. A romantic and intellectual attachment soon morphs into an interspecies love triangle that pushes hard at the boundaries of consciousness and the question of what we know and how we...
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After-school superstars volume 4
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Boogie Bass feels his best friend, Nolan, is better than he at everything, even caring for Boogie's little brothers, but an after-school camp reveals Boogie's talent at communicating using American Sign Language. Includes facts about ASL.
12) Katie meets Carl
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Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Katie has Down syndrome. Carl, the new boy in her class, is Deaf. Katie learns how to talk to Carl by using her hands"--Page [4] of cover.
13) Show me a sign
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes...
14) Little Beauty
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
When a gorilla who knows sign language tells his keepers that he is lonely, they bring him a very special friend.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Amelia had expected to have a quiet summer, but instead she makes friends with a deaf boy who moves in next door, deals with her grouchy older sister, has an asthma attack, and goes to a family reunion. Features hand-printed text and drawings and thirty-two sign language flash cards.
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Series
Moses volume 3
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Moses, who is deaf, has a good time with his family at the circus, where they communicate using sign language. Includes illustrations of some of the signs they use.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Presents a fictionalized account of the life and challenges of Laura Bridgman, the first deaf and blind woman to learn language, and those who helped her, including the founder of the Perkins Institute, with whom she was in love, and her beloved teacher.
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