The Gift of the Girl Who Couldn't Hear
by Susan R. Shreve
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Two friends, one of whom is deaf, help each other when tryouts are held for a seventh-grade production of "Annie."Tags
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This book follows the story of a friendship of a hearing-impaired girl, Lucy, and her average friend, Eliza. As soon as they get to enter middle school Eliza begins to realize how much she is changing and becomes very self conscious while Lucy doesn't feel any different at all. When auditions for a play come around, Eliza, is too self-conscious to participate while Lucy, who has no idea what her voice even sounds like it is enthused and enthralled about auditioning. This story follows the friendship of these two girls through the middle school trials and tribulations.
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Susan Richards Shreve is the author of twelve novels and a number of books for children. She is a professor at George Mason University and the president of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. She lives in Washington, D. C. (Publisher Provided) Susan Richards Shreve, born 1939, is a professor and author of more than twelve novels and children's books, show more including the children's series Joshua T. Bates. Shreve graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and taught at George Washington University, Bennington College, and Princeton University. Shreve became a writer while raising four children and working as a schoolteacher. One of her grown children, Porter Shreve, is now a published author. Shreve's works often focus on the integrity of her characters and parent-child relationships. She has won several awards for her writing including the Guggenheim award in fiction in 1980 and the Edgar Allan Poe Award, Mystery Writers of America, in 1988. Shreve served as the PEN/Faulkner Foundation presdient from 1985- 1990. Shreve lives in Washington, D.C. show less
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