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Gervais, Allison. THE SILENCE BETWEEN US Grand Rapids, Michigan : Blink, [2019] IL YA ISBN 9780310766162 |
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Senior
year Maya is forced to move cross country with her mom
and younger brother. She’s unhappy enough to be moving
senior year but she’s even madder there’s no Deaf school
in her Colorado town. Maya’s new classmates slow talk
and yell-speak at her, not realizing she can read lips.
Understandably, she’s mad. Everything she thought her
senior year would be is gone. She doesn’t want anything
to do with the kids at this school—she’s going to just
get it done and move onto college. But what she wants
and what she gets are two very different things. Two
students decide to befriend Maya and, hard as she tries,
she can’t seem to stop or resist their offers of
friendship, especially Beau’s. But when Beau starts
pushing for Maya to consider cochlear implants, she
starts to wonder if the divide between her Deaf world
and his hearing world is more than they can overcome.
(Prepared by: Anna Webb, Riverside High School,
aswebb@greenville.k12.sc.us) (South Carolina
Book Awards, 2020-2021) |
| SUBJECTS: Cochlear implants -- Fiction. Colorado -- Fiction. Deaf -- Fiction. Dating (Social customs) -- Fiction. Cystic fibrosis -- Fiction. Family life -- Fiction. Friendship -- Fiction. High schools -- Fiction. Schools -- Fiction. |
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