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ISBN: 0876148712
Title: A World of Knowing; A Story about Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
Author: Alexandria Russell Bowen, Elaine Wadsworth (Illustrator)
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group, The
Date Published: July 1995
Format: Library Binding

A biography of the founder of the first school for the deaf in the United States who, among other accomplishments, evolved a new sign language and wrote children's books.

ISBN: 0876149549
Title: A World of Knowing : A Story about Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
Author: Andy Russell Bowen, Elaine Wadsworth (Illustrator)
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books, Inc
Date Published: September 1995
Format: Trade Paper

A biography of the founder of the first school for the deaf in the United States who, among other accomplishments, evolved a new sign language and wrote children's books.

ISBN: 0822507404
Title: Nick's Mission
Author: Claire H. Blatchford
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group, The
Date Published: October 1994
Format: Library Binding

Nick, a deaf sixth grader, is upset about having to go to speech therapy over the summer, until he and his dog stumble on some dangerous smugglers and he learns the importance of being able to communicate.

ISBN: 0880921358
Title: Jakes the Name : Sixth Grades the Game
Author: Deb Piper
Publisher: Royal Fireworks Publishing Company
Date Published: April 1996
Format: Trade Paper

ISBN: 0590673262
Title: Death in the Afternoon: She Lives With Danger and Silence
Author: Kate Chester, Leslie Davis Guccione
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Date Published: June 1996
Format: Trade Paper

ISBN: 0590673270
Title: Missing!
Author: Kate Chester, Ann Reit (Editor)
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Date Published: July 1996
Format: Trade Paper

ISBN: 0590673289
Title: A Time of Fear
Author: Kate Chester
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Date Published: August 1996
Format: Mass Market Paperbound

ISBN: 059087991X
Title: Sudden Death
Author: Kate Chester
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Date Published: December 1996
Format: Trade Paper

ISBN: 0590879928
Title: Playing with Fire
Author: Kate Chester
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Date Published: March 1997
Format: Trade Paper

A string of fires are the hottest news Radley has seen in years. When Sara sees flames coming from a house on her way to school, she rescues a little boy and becomes an overnight hero. But with the attention taken away from his own deeds, the deranged arsonist makes Sara his next target. Original.

ISBN: 0688116949
Title: The Gift of the Girl Who Couldn't Hear
Author: Susan Richards Shreve, Susan Shreve
Publisher: Morrow, William & Co
Date Published: August 1993
Format: Trade Paper

Life can seem awfully confusing for a young girl turning 13. Suddenly the things young Eliza wants most, like a role in the school musical, seem hopelessly out of reach. Then Eliza starts teaching her friend Lucy--who has been deaf since birth--to sing, and her confusion begins to dissolve.

ISBN: 0930323335
Title: Belonging
Author: Virginia M. Scott, Patricia Crowe (Illustrator)
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Date Published: September 1987
Format: Trade Paper

After contracting meningitis, a fifteen-year-old girl becomes deaf and must struggle with accepting her hearing loss and being accepted by her friends and family.

ISBN: 0395657474
Title: Apple Is My Sign
Author: Mary Riskind
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Date Published: March 1993
Format: Trade Paper

A 10-year-old boy returns to his parents' apple farm for the holidays after his first term at a school for the deaf in Philadelphia. "An exuberant book that should do a lot to put across the natural feelings, and special circumstances, of deaf kids."--Kirkus Reviews, pointer review. ALA Notable Children's Book.

ISBN: 0394875168
Title: Sesame Street Sign Language ABC with Linda Bove
Author: Linda Bove, Tom Cooke (Illustrator), Anita Shevett (Photographer)
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated
Date Published: June 1985
Format: Trade Paper

The basics of American Sign Language. "Designed for the very young . . . Each letter appears in both capital and lower case on a single page, along with a photo of Bove showing the sign for the letter, and clearly labeled photos of her signing words or sentences featuring that letter. A good companion to the author's Sesame Street Sign Language Fun."--School Library Journal. Full-color illustrations and photos.

ISBN: 0916708225
Title: Signing Exact English, 1993
Author: Gerilee Gustason, Esther Zawolkow, Donna Pfetzing, Lilian Lopez (Illustrator), Foreword by Barbara Luetke-Stahlman
Publisher: Modern Signs Press, Incorporated
Date Published: April 1995
Format: Trade Cloth

ISBN: 0964504804
Title: Signs of Spring
Author: Patrick Quinn
Publisher: Eagle Creek Publications
Date Published: September 1995
Format: Trade Paper

Deep in the Minnesota north woods, twelve-year-old hearing-impaired Eddie learns the true meaning of home and gains knowledge of his Indian culture from his great-grandfather.

ISBN: 0930323270
Title: A Season of Change
Author: Lois L. Hodge
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Date Published: June 1997
Format: Trade Paper

A thirteen-year-old hearing-impaired girl feels frustrated by her limitations but tries hard to assert her independence.

ISBN: 0964504812
Title: Matthew Pinkowskis Special Summer
Author: Patrick J. Quinn
Publisher: Eagle Creek Publications
Date Published: May 1991
Format: Trade Paper

ISBN: 0930323238
Title: Clerc; The Story of His Early Years
Author: Cathryn Carroll, Harlan L. Lane
Publisher: Kendall Green Publications
Date Published: June 1997
Format: Trade Paper

A fictionalized autobiography in which the voice of Laurent Clerc describes his boyhood in France as a deaf student and his development of his own progressive methods to teach the deaf.

ISBN: 1884362052
Title: Thanks a Lot
Author: Lucille Kraiman
Publisher: Butte Pubns., Inc.
Date Published: May 1995
Format: Trade Paper

ISBN: 0930323831
Title: Hasta Luego, San Diego
Author: Jean F. Andrews
Publisher: Kendall Green Publications
Date Published: March 1991
Format: Trade Paper

Learning disabled Donald and his deaf friend Matt are kidnapped by crooks who have stolen rare cockatoos from the San Diego Zoo, while his older sister is involved in a Hispanic boy's abuse by his father.

ISBN: 188436215X
Title: Hannie
Author: Barbara Luetke-Stahlman
Publisher: Butte Pubn
Date Published: April 1996
Format: Trade Paper

A novel for children about Hannah, a hearing girl, and her two deaf sisters.

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