Audiences everywhere fell in love with Marlee Matlin as the deaf student-turned-custodian in Children of a Lesser God, a role for which she became the youngest woman ever to win a Best Actress Oscar. Since then, she has become an inspirational force of nature - as a mother, activist and role model -[...]
With a new afterword by actress Marlee Matlin
Helen Keller' striumph over her blindness and deafness has become one of the most inspiring stories of our time. Here, in a book first published when she was young woman, is Helen Keller's own story- complex, poignant, and filled with love.
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Megan is excited when Cindy moves into her neighborhood -- maybe she'll finally have a best friend. Sure enough, the two girls quickly become inseparable. Cindy even starts to learn sign language so they can communicate more easily. But when they go away to summer camp together, problems arise. Cin[...]
"It doesn't make sense to me...in the book, Dorothy is a girl who can hear and talk - and Toto is a little dog. So I'm sorry - but I just don't see a Dorothy who's deaf and talks with her hands and has a great big dog for Toto " Megan's fourth-grade class is putting on their own original musical ba[...]
Believing that Alexis--the seemingly perfect new girl--is cold to her because she's deaf, Megan discovers, when they are forced to work together on a science project, that Alexis is hiding the fact that she has an autistic brother, in this powerful follow-up to Deaf Girl Crossing. Reprint.[...]