Show me a sign /
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TextPublication details: New York : Scholastic Press, 2020Edition: First editionDescription: pages cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781338255812Subject(s): Deaf children -- Juvenile fiction. -- Massachusetts -- Chilmark | Kidnapping victims -- Juvenile fiction | Identity (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction | Human experimentation in medicine -- Juvenile fiction | Sign language -- Juvenile fiction | Deaf -- Fiction | People with disabilities -- Fiction | Kidnapping -- Fiction | Identity -- Fiction | Human experimentation in medicine -- Fiction | Sign language -- Fiction | JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism | JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / Native American | Chilmark (Mass.) -- Juvenile fiction. -- History -- 19th century | Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) -- Juvenile fiction. -- History -- 19th century | Chilmark (Mass.) -- Fiction. -- History -- 19th century | Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) -- Fiction. -- History -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Psychological fiction. | Children's and Teenage: General Fiction | Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories | Children's / Teenage fiction: General fiction | Children's / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction | Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Disability & special needs | United States of America, USA | 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899 Additional physical formats: Online version:: Show me a signDDC classification: 813.6 | Fic LOC classification: PZ7.L59114 | Sh 2020Summary: 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.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| Books | Main Library Junior Fiction (JF) | JF .L687 2020 | Available | 34178 |
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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