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Frost, Helen. ALL HE KNEW New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2020 IL 5-8 ISBN 9780374312992 |
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Henry was just a normal little boy. Until he was four and a half. He woke up with a terrible fever and aches and pains. He was terribly sick but overcame the illness. Except it left him deaf. In 1939, this is considered a disability that he parents can't deal with. Instead of going to school when he is six, the local teachers decide that he needs to be put away in the Riverview Home for the Feebleminded. Henry has no idea what is going on. He is left in this horrible place and doesn't know what he did wrong. The home is not a nice place and the attendants can be so cruel. People assume that just because Henry can't hear that he must be stupid. How will he let them know that inside this silent boy is an intelligent, curious boy trying to get out? |
| SUBJECTS: Novels in verse. Inmates of institutions -- Fiction. Deaf -- Fiction. People with disabilities -- Fiction. Conscientious objectors -- Fiction. |
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