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Deer run home

With a family who refuses to learn sign language, twelve-year-old Effie is mostly cut off from human communication at home, unable to speak of her abusive stepfather or violent father--only her interpreter understands, and Miss Kathy is willing to take Effie's case to court to provide her with a saf...

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Main Author: LeZotte, Ann Clare (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scholastic, Inc., 2024.
Subjects:
Deaf children > Juvenile fiction.
Abused children > Juvenile fiction.
Sisters > Juvenile fiction.
Dysfunctional families > Juvenile fiction.
American Sign Language > Juvenile fiction.
Deaf people > Juvenile fiction.
People with disabilities > Juvenile fiction.
Child abuse > Juvenile fiction.
Family problems > Juvenile fiction.
Novels in verse > Juvenile.
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Summary:With a family who refuses to learn sign language, twelve-year-old Effie is mostly cut off from human communication at home, unable to speak of her abusive stepfather or violent father--only her interpreter understands, and Miss Kathy is willing to take Effie's case to court to provide her with a safe home. Told in verse.
Physical Description:pages ; cm
Audience:Ages 10-14.
Grades 7-9.
ISBN:9781339021904
Author Notes:Ann Clare LeZotte is a completely deaf and bilingual-bicultural (ASL/English) member of the Deaf community, and an essential voice for Deaf / HOH, disabled, and marginalized youth. She is the author of the Schneider Family Book Award-winning novel Show Me a Sign , which was named a best book of the year by NPR, Kirkus Reviews , School Library Journal , the New York Public Library, the Chicago Public Library, and American Indians in Children's Literature, as well as its stand-alone companions Set Me Free and Sail Me Away Home . Her middle-grade verse novel, Deer Run Home , received three starred reviews and won the Judy Lopez Memorial Award. Ann also works as a youth librarian. She lives in Gainesville, Florida.

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