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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
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Description
Near-future Australia is controlled by Organicore, a company that produces the "perfectly balanced" synthetic meals that have all but replaced wild food, but Piper McBride, sixteen, deaf, and cued white, begins to wonder if wild food is as dangerous as Organicore's propaganda says.
2) El Deafo
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
The author recounts in graphic novel format her experiences with hearing loss at a young age, including using a bulky hearing aid, learning how to lip read, and determining her "superpower."
"Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles...
Author
Pub. Date
c2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
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Formats
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Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
4) Soundless
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
"A fantasy adventure steeped in Chinese folklore about a teenage girl named Fei. When her village is suddenly in danger, Fei finds herself on a journey from the peak of her jagged mountain village to the valley of Beiguo, where a startling truth and an unlikely romance will change her life forever"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Little Bear feels the world around him. He feels the floor shake when someone stomps to get his attention - but something is missing. Little Bear is not sure what is happening. All around him he hears the familiar refrain: "Can bears ski?" Then Dad Bear takes him to see an audiologist and they learn that Little Bear has been experiencing deafness. With new hearing aids, he discovers that "Can bears ski?" is actually "Can you hear me?" His new world...
6) Boy
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The king's battles with the dragon were always mighty and loud... CLING CLANG CLONG! ROAR! Boy lived in a silence and couldn't hear the fighting. But Boy could see the fear around him... and how everyone would be much happier without it.
Author
Description
Meet Almigal, a spunky little girl with a BIG personality who's determined to hear "every single sound in the whole entire universe!" That includes ... her friend Isabella's baby brother's funny giggle, the robins singing outside her bedroom window, the soft Swan Song Madam plays during ballet class, and especially her friend Chloe's teeny-tiny voice. But most of all, Almigal wants to hear her Mommy and Daddy whisper, "We love you, Almigal!" when...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When Will Halpin transfers from his all-deaf school into a mainstream Pennsylvania high school, he faces discrimination and bullying, but still manages to solve a mystery surrounding the death of a popular football player in his class.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes the history of the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut, and the invention of American Sign Language, and includes biographical information on the school's founder, Thomas Gallaudet, and Alice Cogswell, the young girl who inspired the creation.