stacialovestoread 's review for:

Give Me a Sign by Anna Sortino
5.0

As a student of ASL, I absolutely loved this book. As a Hearie, I can also recognize that sometimes (often) we are the problem.
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Lilah is HOH (Hard of Hearing) due to a congenial condition that causes progressive hearing loss. She has hearing aids and reads lips and has a little bit of ASL vocab.

Camp Gray Wolf is a summer camp for the Deaf, HOH, and visually impaired where they can go and be among friends from across the country, and just be a kid in an environment that’s specifically built for and caters to them.

Lilah has a unique position being that she has hearing aids but also can’t hear perfectly. Throughout the course of her summer as a junior counselor, she learns to love both sides of her — her Deafness doesn’t invalidate her hearing abilities, and he use of hearing aids doesn’t make her any less Deaf.

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Also. I loved when Lilah and Natasha put Mackenzie in her place about “pretending to be Deaf in public” and claiming that she is an ASL interpreter (when she’s actually a student).

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Big thanks to PenguinTeen for the ARC!