Show Me a Sign

Grades 4 - 7: Eleven-year-old Mary, who is deaf, uses a unique form of sign language to communicate, as do almost all the residents on Martha’s Vineyard in the early 1800s. This was considered completely normal, until a stranger came to study the islanders’ inherited deafness, upending Mary’s life as she knows it. A multi-layered work of historical fiction featuring a fascinating main character in an absorbing setting.