Show Me a Sign /
LeZotte, Ann Clare, author.
Show Me a Sign / Ann Clare LeZotte. - First edition. - New York : Scholastic, 2020. - 269 pages ; 22 cm
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.
GRL: V Middle grade / teen.
Schneider Family Book Award, 2021.
9781338255812
Deaf children--Fiction.
Identity (Psychology)--Fiction.
Kidnapping--Fiction.
People with disabilities--Fiction.
Wampanoag people--Fiction.
Martha's Vineyard--Mass.--Fiction.
FICTION / Historical / General.
F LEZ
Show Me a Sign / Ann Clare LeZotte. - First edition. - New York : Scholastic, 2020. - 269 pages ; 22 cm
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.
GRL: V Middle grade / teen.
Schneider Family Book Award, 2021.
9781338255812
Deaf children--Fiction.
Identity (Psychology)--Fiction.
Kidnapping--Fiction.
People with disabilities--Fiction.
Wampanoag people--Fiction.
Martha's Vineyard--Mass.--Fiction.
FICTION / Historical / General.
F LEZ