Sanger Kids Book Group

Show Me a Sign / Ann Clare LeZotte

A read and complete at your own pace program, featuring a different book title each month chosen specifically for 4-6 grade level readers. Continues all month long.

Mary Lambert has grown up sheltered on her beloved island of Martha's Vineyard. Her family lineage can be traced back to one of the first deaf islanders. Now, over a hundred years later, many people are deaf and nearly everyone can communicate in sign language. Things are rapidly changing though. Tensions between English settlers and natives are building--and the arrival a young scheming scientist seeking to study the origins of deafness on the island leads Mary into a cruel experiment where she is the live specimen.

Deaf author Ann Clare LeZotte weaves a riveting story inspired by the true history of a thriving deaf community on Martha's Vineyard in the early 19th century.