76 pages 2 hours read

Ann Clare LeZotte

Show Me a Sign

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

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Part 1, Prologue-Chapter 9

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1. There are many residents experiencing deafness. (Part 1, Prologue-Chapter 5)

2. Her brother (Part 1, Prologue-Chapter 5)

3. Muffins (Part 1, Prologue-Chapter 5)

4. Nancy, Reverend Lee, and Andrew Noble. (Part 1, Chapter 6-9)

Short Answer

1. Mary is in the way of an approaching carriage but can’t hear it because she is deaf. Her brother George hears the approach of the carriage and pushes Mary out of the way. The carriage strikes George instead. (Part 1, Prologue-Chapter 5)

2. Ezra tells Mary that a deaf settler from Kent, England has come from a community that has its own sign language. (Part 1, Prologue-Chapter 5)

3. The community has prejudices toward Black freedmen, Indigenous people, and the Irish. (Part 1, Chapters 6-9)

Part 1, Chapters 10-19

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