A riveting standalone companion to the Schneider Family Book Award winner, Show Me a Sign by Deaf author and librarian, Ann Clare LeZotte.
“Instantly captivating…will keep readers hooked until the very end…A simultaneously touching and gripping adventure.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Full of adventure and twists…a gripping tale of historical fiction.” — Booklist
“Mary seems set to become a true hero-adventurer, an almost larger-than-life sleuth, teacher, and woman of action; and while the story’s subject matter is serious in its engagement with history’s ills, LeZotte conveys a sense of real enjoyment in having Mary disrupt…the prejudices and expectations of the status quo.” — The Horn Book
Three years after being kidnapped as a “live specimen” in a cruel experiment to determine the cause of her deafness, Mary Lambert has grown weary of domestic life on Martha’s Vineyard, and even of her once beloved writing.
So when an old acquaintance summons her to an isolated manor house outside Boston to teach a young deaf girl to communicate, Mary agrees. But can a child of eight with no prior language be taught? And is Mary up to the task? With newfound purpose, Mary arrives only to discover that there is much more to the girl’s story–and the circumstances of her confinement–than she ever could have imagined. Suddenly, teaching her and freeing her from the prison of her isolation, takes on much greater meaning, and peril.
Riveting and complex, delicately nuanced and fervently feminist, Set Me Free is a masterful stand-alone companion to Show Me a Sign, and a searing expos? of ableism, racism, and colonialism that will challenge you to think differently about the dignity and capacity within every human being.
Author: Ann Clare Lezotte
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Published: 09/21/2021
Series: Show Me a Sign
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.41h x 5.80w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781338742497
Language: English
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