Show me a sign / Ann Clare LeZotte.
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TextSeries: Publisher: New York : Scholastic Press, 2020Description: 269 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- volume
- 9781338255812
- 1338255819
- 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
- F LEZ 23
- PZ7.L59114 Sh 2020
- JUV039120 | JUV011040
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.
Includes bibliographical references.
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