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Strong Deaf
By MCELFRESH, Lynn
- ISBN
- 978-1-60898-126-7 978-1-60898-127-4 978-1-60898-128-1
- Publisher
- Namelos
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2013 | Grades 5-up
Gr 5–8—Twelve-year-old Jade is hearing; her fourteen-year-old sister, Marla, like much of their family, is deaf. Tensions mount between the sisters when they play on the same summer softball team. Set against the 2006 Gallaudet University student/alumni protests, the story gets a lot right: Jade's experience as a hearing child in a deaf family; Marla's defensive adolescent arrogance; the oppressive assumptions of hearing people the family encounters; the empowering values of Deaf Culture as depicted throu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
