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3) The silence
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Pub. Date
2015.
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"In the darkness of a underground cave system, cut off from the world for millennia, blind creatures hunt by sound. Then there is light, there are voices, and they feed. Swarming from their prison, they multiply and thrive. To scream, even to whisper, is to summon death. Deaf for many years, Ali knows how to live in silence. Now, it is her family's only chance of survival. To leave their home, to shun others, to find a remote haven where they can...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
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With the publication of her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is the deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for various types...
6) The Passage
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 50
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First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fear - of darkness, of death, of a fate far worse.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 12
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In this autobiography, initially published in 1903, Helen Keller recalls her remarkable life as a blind and deaf woman taught to communicate by Ann Sullivan. Here among other memories, Keller describes her epiphany at the water pump when she connected the physical world with its linguistic counterpart. Keller was eventually educated at Radcliffe University, where she graduated with honors.
11) Not a sound
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When a tragic accident leaves nurse Amelia Winn deaf, she spirals into a depression that ultimately causes her to lose everything that matters: her job, her husband David, and her stepdaughter Nora. Now, two years later and with the help of her hearing dog, Stitch, she is finally getting back on her feet. But when she discovers the body of a fellow nurse in the dense bush by the river, deep in the woods near her cabin, she is plunged into a disturbing...
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Series
Wayne County series volume 1
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Abigail, a young midwife, is sent to jail after a difficult delivery takes a devastating turn. Her sister, Catherine, comes to stay and help care for Abigail's children while Abigail's husband works the field. Catherine meets Isaiah, a deaf man thought to be simpleminded, and discovers that he possesses unexpected gifts and talents.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Presents information about the role of communication in the development of deaf and hard of hearing children. Describes the attributes of full and effective communication and tells how to provide communication access to deaf and hard of hearing students. Discusses all common communication modalities.
20) Addy's race
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Series
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
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Addy has worn hearing aids for as long as she can remember. Her mother tells her this makes her special, but now that Addy's in grade six, she wants to be special for something she's done. When Addy joins the school running club to keep her best friend, Lucy company, she discovers she is a gifted runner. Lucy, isn't, which is problematic. Further troubles surface when Addy gets paired on a school project with Sierra, a smart, self-assured new classmate...