Title: Show Me a Sign
Author: Ann Clare LeZotte
Author: Ann Clare LeZotte
Publication: Scholastic Press, hardcover, 2020
Genre: Young Adult/Historical Fiction
Setting: Massachusetts, 1805
Plot: Mary Lambert has grown up on Martha’s Vineyard in a community that has consisted of deaf and hearing individuals for generations. Mary is deaf but has never felt isolated because nearly everyone she knows uses sign language. However, lately, she has felt sad and lonely; her family is still grieving the unexpected loss of her older brother George, and Mary’s grief is intensified by her belief she caused his accident. When a researcher comes to the Island to investigate the Island’s deaf culture, he assumes she is not intelligent and it is the first time Mary has been treated as having a disability. When he decides to use her as an experiment, Mary must rely on her own skills to save herself.
