LeZotte, Ann Clare,

Show me a sign / Ann Clare LeZotte. - 269 pages ; 22 cm. - Show me a sign ; bk. 1 .

Includes bibliographical references.

Pub Weekly, January 2020 Kirkus Starred, November 2019 Booklist, February 2020

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 the perfect "live specimen"--and kidnapped her.

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9781338255812 1338255819

2019027510


Deaf children--Massachusetts--Juvenile fiction.
Kidnapping victims--Juvenile fiction.
Identity (Psychology)--Juvenile fiction.
Sign language--Juvenile fiction.
Deaf--Fiction.
People with disabilities--Fiction.
Kidnapping--Fiction.
Identity--Fiction.
Human experimentation in medicine--Fiction.


Martha's Vineyard (Mass.)--History--19th century--Fiction.


Historical fiction.
Psychological fiction.

PZ7.L59114 / Sh 2020

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