Hearing impaired
EASY BOOKS
Helen Keller And The Big Storm
Patricia Lakin (E); illustrated by Diana Magnuson. New York : Aladdin, 2002. 30 p. Series: (Childhood Of Famous Americans) A true incident in the life of young Helen Keller in which she gets stuck in a storm and her teacher, Annie Sullivan, rescues her.
Moses Goes To A Concert
Isaac Millman (E). New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. Moses and his schoolmates, all deaf, attend a concert where the orchestra’s percussionist is also deaf. Includes illustrations in sign language and a page showing the manual alphabet.
Moses Goes To School
Isaac Millman (E). New York : Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. Moses and his friends enjoy the first day of school at their special school for the deaf and hard of hearing, where they use sign language to talk to each other.
Moses Goes To The Circus*
Isaac Millman. (E) New York : FSG, 2003. Moses, who is deaf, has a good time with his family at the circus, where they communicate using sign language. Includes illustrations of some of the signs they use.
The Printer
Myron Uhlberg (E) ; illustrated by Henri Sorensen. Atlanta : Peachtree, c2003. A boy recalls the day his deaf father saved everyone’s life when fire broke out at the newspaper printing plant where he worked.
Juvenile Non-fiction
Anna’s Silent World
Bernard Wolf (JUV 371.9 WOL). Philadelphia : Lippincott, c1977. 48 p. Describes special training and equipment used to help a deaf youngster talk, read, and write
Can You Hear A Rainbow? : The Story Of A Deaf Boy Named Chris
Jamee Riggio Heelan (JUV 362.42 HEE); illustrations by Nicola Simmonds. Atlanta : Peachtree Publishers, c2002. A deaf child tells how he uses sign language, hearing aids, and his other senses to communicate, how his friends help him, and how he goes to public school with an interpreter
A Deaf Child Listened : Thomas Gallaudet, Pioneer In American Education Anne E. Neimark (JUV 371.91 NEI). New York : Morrow, 1983. 116 p.
Deafness
Jane Hyman (JUV 618.92 HYM). New York : F. Watts, 1980. 64 p. Discusses types of hearing losses and their causes, the effects of deafness on the individual, methods of learning speech and language, and alternative forms of communication.
Dear Dr. Bell— Your Friend, Helen Keller Judith St. George (JUV 362.41 SAI). New York : Putnam’s, c1992. 95p. Follows the parallel lives of Helen Keller and Alexander Graham Bell, who continued to encounter and support each other from that eventful meeting when he recommended she be given a teacher and thus led her to Annie Sullivan.
The Handmade Alphabet Laura Rankin. (JUV 419 RAN) 1st ed. New York : Dial Books, c1991. Presents the handshape for each letter of the American manual alphabet accompanied by an object whose name begins with that letter.
The Handmade Counting Book
Laura Rankin (JUV 419 RAN). New York : Dial Books, 1998. Shows how to count from one to twenty and twenty-five, fifty, seventy-five, and one hundred using American Sign Language.
Handtalk Zoo George Ancona & Mary Beth. (JUV 419 ANC) New York : Four Winds Press, c1989. 28p. Words and sign language depict children at the zoo discovering how to sign the names of various animals and how to tell time.
Helen Keller
David A. Adler (JUV 362.41 ADL); illustrated by John Wallner. New York : Holiday House, c2003. 32 p. A brief biography highlights some of the struggles and accomplishments in the life of Helen Keller.
Helen Keller
Dennis Wepman.( JUV 362.4 WEP) New York : Chelsea House, c1987. 111 p. Describes how a woman left blind and deaf from a childhood illness overcame her handicaps to become a noted writer and humanitarian.
Helen Keller : Rebellious Spirit
Laurie Lawlor.( JUV 362.4 LAW) New York : Holiday House, c2001. 168 p. A biography that sheds new light on this extraordinary woman.
Hello, Alexander Graham Bell Speaking : A Biography
Cynthia Copeland Lewis (JUV 621.385 LEW). Minneapolis, Minn. : Dillon Press, c1991. 64 p. A biography of the inventor of the telephone and a teacher of the deaf.
I Have A Sister—My Sister Is Deaf
Jeanne Whitehouse Peterson (JUV 618.92 PET ) ; pictures by Deborah Ray. New York : Harper & Row, c1977. 32p. A young girl describes how her deaf sister experiences everyday things.
Mother Goose In Sign
S. Harold Collins ;( JUV 398.8 COL ) illustrated by Kathy Kifer and Dahna Solar. Eugene, OR : Garlic Press, c1994. Presents five Mother Goose rhymes in easy-to-understand signed English
Nursery Rhymes From Mother Goose : Told In Signed English
Harry Bornstein and Karen L. Saulnier (JUV 398.8 BOR ) ; illustrated by Pat Peters ; line drawings by Linda Tom. Washington, DC : Kendall Green Publications, c1992. 41 p. Presents well-known Mother Goose rhymes accompanied by diagrams showing how to form the Signed English signs for each word in the poems.
A Picture Book Of Helen Keller
David A. Adler(JUV 362.4 ADL ) ; illustrated by John & Alexandra Wallner. New York : Holiday House, c1990. 32 p. A brief biography of the woman who overcame her handicaps of being both blind and deaf.
Sign Language
Laura Greene and Eva Barash Dicker (JUV 419 GRE) ; [drawings and photos. by Caren Caraway]. New York : Franklin Watts, 1981. 66 p. Discusses the development of sign language and describes how it is used in conjunction with finger spelling, speechreading, and other forms of communication to help individuals with impaired hearing.
Sign Language For Kids : A Fun & Easy Guide To American Sign Language Lora Heller. (JUV 419.7 HEL) New York, N.Y. : Sterling, 2004. 95 p. Color photos illustrate sign language for numbers, letters, colors, feelings, animals, and clothes.
What Is The Sign For Friend? by Judith E. Greenberg (JUV 419 GRE ) ; photographs by Gayle Rothschild. New York : F. Watts, 1985. 30 p. Text and photographs depict the life of Shane, a deaf child who goes to a regular school and enjoys normal activities with the help of sign language and a hearing aid.
The World At Her Fingertips: The Story of Helen Keller
Joan Dash (JUV 362.4 DAS). New York : Scholastic Press, 2001. This lively biography goes beyond Helen’s youth and learning process and includes many fascinating details of her later life, including her college years and involvement with politics. It’s “riveting reading for sudents in need of inspiration, or who’re overcoming disability or studying changing expectations for women (Kirkus).”
You Can Learn Sign Language! : More Than 300 Words In Pictures Jackie Kramer & Tali Ovadia (JUV 419 KRA). Mahwah, N.J. : Troll, 2001. 48 p. With this fun and easy guide, you’ll learn over 300 useful words in sign language.
JUVENILE FICTION
The Boys Of San Joaquin : A Novel
D. James Smith (JF). New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2005. 231 p. In a small California town in 1951, twelve-year-old Paolo and his deaf cousin Billy get caught up in a search for money missing from the church collection, leading them to complicated discoveries about themselves, other family members, and townspeople they thought they knew
Changes for Julie
Megan McDonald (JF) ; illustrations, Robert Hunt ; vignettes, Nika Korniyenko, Susan McAliley. Middleton, WI : American Girl Pub., c2007. 93 p. (American girls ; 6) Julie is in school detention for passing a note to Joy, a deaf student who has trouble understanding what their teacher is saying. Indignant, Julie decides to run for student body president so she can make changes to the detention system. But the other students are put off by Joy, her choice for vice president, and Julie worries that she’ll have little chance of winning if she partners with someone who seems so different. With persistence and creative campaigning, Julie wins the students over—and wins the election without compromising her principles.
Dovey Coe
Frances O’Roark Dowell. (JF) New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2000. 181 p. When accused of murder in her North Carolina mountain town in 1928, Dovey Coe, a stronged-willed twelve-year-old girl, comes to a new understanding of others, including her deaf brother.
Feathers
Jacqueline Woodson (JF). New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, c2007. 118 p. When a new, white student nicknamed “The Jesus Boy” joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie’s growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.
Gideon ahoy!
William Mayne (JF). New York : Delacorte Press, 1989. 155 p. Twelve-year-old Eva’s chaotic but cheerful family life in a small English town changes when Gideon, her brain-damaged deaf older brother, gets a job opening bridges and locks for the local canalboat.
The Gift Of The Girl Who Couldn’t Hear
Susan Shreve (JF). New York : Tambourine Books, c1991. 79 p. Two friends, one of whom is deaf, help each other when tryouts are held for a seventh-grade production of “Annie.”
Miss Spitfire : Reaching Helen Keller
Sarah Miller (JF). New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2007. 208 p. At age twenty-one, partially-blind, lonely but spirited Annie Sullivan travels from Massachusetts to Alabama to try and teach six-year-old Helen Keller, deaf and blind since age two, self-discipline and communication skills. Includes historical notes and timeline.
Ruby Lu, Empress Of Everything
Lenore Look (JF) ; illustrated by Anne Wilsdorf. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2006. 164 p. After Ruby Lu’s deaf cousin, Flying Duck, and her parents come from China to live with her, Ruby finds life challenging as she adjusts to her new family, tries to mend her rocky relationship with her friend Emma, and faces various adventures in summer school.
The Secret Letters Of Mama Cat
Jody Sorenson (JF). New York : Walker, 1988. 122 p. During her first year in junior high, Meredith deals with several crises, including moving to Texas, the departure of her sister to a boarding school for the deaf, and the death of her grandmother.
Tuck Triumphant
Theodore Taylor (JF). New York : Doubleday, c1991. 150 p. Fourteen-year-old Helen, her blind dog Friar Tuck, and her family face some dramatic challenges when they discover that the Korean boy they have adopted is deaf. Sequel to “The Trouble with Tuck.”
Young Adult
The Raging Quiet
Sherryl Jordan (YA). New York : Simon & Schuster, c1999. 266 p. Suspicious of sixteen-year-old Marnie, a newcomer to their village, the residents accuse her of witchcraft when she discovers that the village madman is not crazy but deaf and she begins to communicate with him through hand gestures.