Young Adult

Reader Levels: Teens and Adults

Comic book

What is it like to go deaf? A humorous, real and at times harrowing exploration of one man's lifelong journey into silence. The entertaining, true short stories describe adventures in communication and music ...

Reader Levels: Teens and Adults

Everyone treats Biney Richmond, 13 and hard of hearing, as though she should be wrapped in cotton, until she proves to everyone how grown up she really is during a crisis with a friend.

Reader Levels: Adults and Teens

Jazmine’s deaf. And she’s getting tired. Tired of trying hard to fit in and pretending to be like everyone else.

When Jaz goes to deaf camp, a new world opens up to her: a world where she finally seems to have a place.<...

The Challenge:  Piper has one month to get a pay gig for Dumb - the hottest new rock band in school.

The Deal:  If she does it, she'll become manager of the band and get her share of the profits, which she desperately needs since her parents raided her colleg...

Jilly thinks she's figured out how life works. But when you sister, Emma, is born Deaf, she realizes how much she still has to learn.  The world is going to treat Jilly, who is white and hearing, differently from Emma, just as it will treat them both differently from...

Ben and Rose secretly wish their lives were different.  Ben longs for the father he has never known. Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whos life chronicles in a scrapbook  When Ben discovers a puzzling clue in his mother's room and Rose reads an enticing headline i...

Smelly Hearing Aids and Fishy Lips is a fictional journal by Egg Flounder who is your average teenage boy in all ways except for one thing; he is deaf.  This is a story of his floundering attempts to live in a hearing world; taking speech lessons from old Mrs. Tautog...

Inspired by the true story of a chimpanzee raised as a human child, Hurt Go Happy is the unforgettable story of one girls' determination to save the life of a fellow creature - one who shares 98 percent of our DNA, and who has the ability to communicate with us.  Read More

This book is a compilation of the nearly 100 profiles of notable deaf person that appeared as a series in The Frat, the official organ of the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf (Chicago, Illinois), from January 1937 to June 1946.  The profiles came from ...

Who wouldn't want to go to a 300-year old school of magic, wave a wand, and learn to fly? But this girl falls off her broom, gets her spells wrong, and isn't sure her cat really is a familiar.  All because her ears don't work as well as everyone else's.  But once Cai...