![]() ![]() Three years after being kidnapped and rendered a “live specimen” in a cruel experiment to determine the cause of her deafness, fourteen year old Mary Lambert is summoned from her home in Martha’s Vineyard to the mainland to teach a younger deaf girl to communicate with sign language. ![]() ![]() Yet there is something deeply wrong with the man’s attitude, and as Mary investigates further she is pulled into a terrible discovery and grotesque new status as a “live specimen” of her people.įirst up, here’s a quick encapsulation of Set Me Free: Drawn to the mystery of why so many inhabitants are born without hearing, the man is determined to find the cause. Mary’s mother still grieves her dead son desperately, but distraction comes in the form of a young scientist that visits the island. In Mary’s own family her mother and brother, recently deceased, could hear and her father cannot. In this isolated community many people are deaf. ![]() Deaf from birth, she lives on Martha’s Vineyard (land “sold” by the Wampanoag who reside there still) in 1805 in the village of Chilmark. “If you are reading this, I suppose you want to know more about the terrible events of last year – which I almost didn’t survive – and the community where I live.” So begins Mary Lambert’s story. Here’s a quick encapsulation of the plot: If you’ve somehow missed the book, do not worry. I don’t think I’m surprising anyone when I say that one of the great middle grade hits of 2020 has been Ann Clare LeZotte’s Show Me a Sign. ![]()
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