Pub Date: April 2, 2004
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 00068123
Lexile Code: 0730
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: 12 to 17
Physical Info: 0.56" H x 7.52" L x 5.14" W ( 0.43 lbs) 215 pages
BISAC Categories:
Young Adult Fiction | Family | Parents | Siblings | Social Themes | General see also headings under Family
Description: Tired of interpreting for his deaf family and resentful of their reliance on him, high school senior Theo finds support and understanding from Ivy, a new student who also has a deaf parent. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults.
Brief description: JEAN FERRIS is the author of many novels for young people, including Of Sound Mind, Bad, and Across the Grain, all ALA Best Books for Young Adults. She lives in San Diego, California.
Review Quotes:
"Both a thought-provoking study of just when being deaf matters and when it does not, and an unusually rich coming-of-age story that explores universal issues of family responsibility, emotional maturation, love, and loss." --Starred, Booklist
"A moving exploration of the extraordinary demands a disability places on a family as well as the effects of an exceptionally strong personality on a household." --The Horn Book "Ferris has written an absorbing novel with a strong, endearing protagonist . . . This fine novel explores a world about which most people know little." --VOYA