Set me free / Ann Clare LeZotte.
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TextPublisher: New York : Scholastic Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First editionDescription: 265 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781338742497
- 1338742493
- Secrets -- Fiction
- Deaf children -- Juvenile fiction
- Deaf -- Education -- Juvenile fiction
- Deaf -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Identity (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction
- Secrecy -- Juvenile fiction
- American Sign Language -- Juvenile fiction
- People with disabilities -- Juvenile fiction
- Education -- Juvenile fiction
- Sign language -- Juvenile fiction
- Massachusetts -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Fiction | LEZOTTE ANN CLAR | 2 | Available | 33111010598452 | ||||
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Northport Library | Children's Fiction | LEZOTTE ANN CLAR | 2 | Available | 33111009855434 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A riveting standalone companion to the Schneider Family Book Award winner, Show Me a Sign by Deaf author and librarian, Ann Clare LeZotte.
"Instantly captivating...will keep readers hooked until the very end...A simultaneously touching and gripping adventure." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Full of adventure and twists...a gripping tale of historical fiction." -- Booklist
"Mary seems set to become a true hero-adventurer, an almost larger-than-life sleuth, teacher, and woman of action; and while the story's subject matter is serious in its engagement with history's ills, LeZotte conveys a sense of real enjoyment in having Mary disrupt...the prejudices and expectations of the status quo." -- The Horn Book
Three years after being kidnapped as a "live specimen" in a cruel experiment to determine the cause of her deafness, Mary Lambert has grown weary of domestic life on Martha's Vineyard, and even of her once beloved writing.
So when an old acquaintance summons her to an isolated manor house outside Boston to teach a young deaf girl to communicate, Mary agrees. But can a child of eight with no prior language be taught? And is Mary up to the task? With newfound purpose, Mary arrives only to discover that there is much more to the girl's story--and the circumstances of her confinement--than she ever could have imagined. Suddenly, teaching her and freeing her from the prison of her isolation, takes on much greater meaning, and peril.
Riveting and complex, delicately nuanced and fervently feminist, Set Me Free is a masterful stand-alone companion to Show Me a Sign , and a searing exposé of ableism, racism, and colonialism that will challenge you to think differently about the dignity and capacity within every human being.
Sequel to: Show me a sign.
Ages 8-12. Scholastic Press.
Three years after being kidnapping from her home in Martha's Vineyard, fourteen-year-old Mary Lambert receives a letter from Nora O'Neal, a servant in the house where she was held, who tells her of an eight-year-old girl where she is now employed whom Nora believes to be a deaf-mute, but who is being treated as insane, and asks Mary to come and teach the nameless child; a little scared, but intrigued, and bored with domestic life, Mary agrees--only to find that there is more to the child's story, and that freeing her from a world of silence and imprisonment may be more dangerous than anyone anticipated.