List of children's books featuring deaf characters

|Sam Taplin,

Ag Jatkowska

|Describes the life of Ludwig van Beethoven and how in later life he lost his hearing and how for the last 10 years of his life couldn't hear at all. During that time he composed Symphony No. 9. and only "ever heard it in his head."

|2020

|0–2 yrs

|Board book that plays music

|Claire Keay

|The illustrations include a medical professional wearing a hearing aid.

|2019

|2–6 yrs

|Board Book & Soft Cover

|Ruth Spiro, Irene Chan

|The illustrations include a child wearing a hearing aid and another wearing a cochlear implant. The book also includes a reference to ASL.

|2019

|0–2 yrs

|Board Book

|Annie Kulber

|The illustrations include a character with hearing aids, a child with glasses and a child with an arm splint.

|2018

|0–2 yrs

|Board Book

|Annie Kulber

|The illustrations include a child with a hearing aid, a child wearing an eye patch, a child with glasses, another using a wheelchair.{{cite web|url=https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/z/zoom-zoom-zoom/|title=Zoom, Zoom, Zoom!|website=www.booktrust.org.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-07-27}}

|2018

|0–2 yrs

|Board Book

|Annie Kulber

|The illustrations include a child with a hearing aid, a child with glasses and a child with a walking frame,.

|2018

|0–2 yrs

|Board Book

|Jo Byatt

|The central character wears a cochlear implant on her right side.{{cite web|url=https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/s/sleep-tight-teddy/|title=Sleep Tight, Teddy!|website=www.booktrust.org.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-07-27}} The illustrations also show her cochlear implant charging station on her bedside table. Earlier editions have different illustrations and they don't include any deaf characters.

|2018

|0–3 yrs

|Board Book

|Ailie Busby

|The illustrations include a toddler using a hearing aid.{{cite web|url=https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/f/feeling-great/|title=Feeling Great|website=www.booktrust.org.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-07-19}} Earlier editions have different illustrations and they don't include any deaf characters.

|2018

|0–2 yrs

|Board Book

|Cocoretto

|The illustrations include a character wearing a hearing aid in each ear while riding a quad bike.

|2017

|1–4 yrs

|Board Book

|Jessica Spanyol

|The illustrations include Wilfred wearing a hearing aid and Anisa wearing a leg splint and another child wearing glasses.

|2017

|1–3 yrs

|Board Book

|Jessica Spanyol

|The illustrations include Wilfred wearing a hearing aid and Anisa wearing a leg splint and another child wearing glasses.

|2017

|1–3 yrs

|Board Book

|Jessica Spanyol

|The illustrations include Wilfred wearing a hearing aid and Anisa wearing a leg splint and another child wearing glasses.

|2017

|1–3 yrs

|Board Book

|Carol Thompson

|The illustrations include two children wearing hearing aids and another child wearing glasses.

|2017

|1–3 yrs

|Board Book

|Auditory Verbal UK

|In this picture book all the photos are of babies and young children wearing hearing aids or cochlear implants.

|2016

|0–2 yrs

|Thick Card

|Julia Donaldson, Nick Sharratt

|The illustrations include Monkey wearing a hearing aid; Monkey features several times in the book.{{cite web|url=https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/g/goat-goes-to-playgroup/|title=Goat Goes to Playgroup|website=www.booktrust.org.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-07-27}}

|2015

|2–5 yrs

|Board Book & Soft Cover

|Ailie Busby

|The illustrations include a child wearing a hearing aid, a child wearing 'Boots and a Bar' which implies the child had talipes (club foot) and another child with a built-up shoe. Part of a series which won a Practical Preschool Silver award (UK) 2015.

|2015

|0–3 yrs

|Board Book

|Ailie Busby

|The illustrations include a child with a hearing aid, children wearing glasses and a child wearing a wrist splint. Part of a series which won a Practical Preschool Silver award (UK) 2015.

|2015

|0–3 yrs

|Board Book

|The illustrations include a child wearing a hearing aid and a child with Down's syndrome.{{cite web|url=https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/w/wind/|title=Wind|website=www.booktrust.org.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-07-27}} Part of a series which won Practical Preschool Silver award.

|2014

|1–4 yrs

|Board Book

|Carol Thompson

|The illustrations include a child signing 'SUN' in BSL, a child with Down's syndrome, another child wearing a protective helmet and a child with a nasal oxygen cannula and a walking frame.{{cite web|url=https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/s/sun/|title=Sun|website=www.booktrust.org.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-07-27}} Part of a series which won Practical Preschool Silver award.

|2014

|1–4 yrs

|Board Book

|Carol Thompson

|The illustrations include a child wearing a cochlear implant, a child wearing leg splints and another child wearing a safety helmet. This book was included in Guardian's top 10 most inclusive books in 2013.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jul/19/alexandra-strick-sean-stockdale-top-10-inclusive-childrens-books|title=Alexandra Strick and Sean Stockdale's top 10 inclusive children's books|last1=Strick|first1=Alexandra|date=2013-07-19|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-07-19|last2=Stockdale|first2=Sean|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}

|2013

|1–3 yrs

|Board Book

|Carol Thompson

|The illustrations include a child with a hearing aid and a child wearing an eye patch.

|2012

|0–3 yrs

|Board Book

|Marina Aizen

|The illustrations include a child wearing a hearing aid and a child using a wheelchair.{{cite web|url=https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/m/mary-had-a-little-lamb---classic-books-with-holes/|title=Mary Had a Little Lamb - Classic Books with Holes|website=www.booktrust.org.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-07-21}}

|2012

|3–6 yrs

|Board Book and Soft Cover

|Jan Lewis

|The illustrations include a child with a hearing aid, a child wearing a leg splint and another child using tripods.

|2012

|2–6 yrs

|Thick Card

|Jan Lewis

|The illustrations clearly show a teacher wearing a radio aid/FM system presumably for the benefit of a deaf child, but there are several female children wearing square hairclips which could be interpreted as hearing technology; there is no clear illustration of a child wearing a hearing aid or cochlear implant etc. The illustrations also include a child with their leg in a cast and using crutches.

|2012

|2–6 yrs

|Thick Card

|Annie Kulber

|The illustrations include a child wearing a hearing aid. Selected for Bookbug Baby Pack by the Scottish Book Trust.

|2011

|0–3 yrs

|Board Book

|Annie Kulber

|The illustrations include a child wearing a hearing aid and a child wearing a leg splint.

|2011

|0–3 yrs

|Board Book

|Annie Kulber

|The illustrations include a child wearing a hearing aid and a child wearing an eye patch.

|2011

|0–3 yrs

|Board Book

|Annie Kulber

|The illustrations include a child wearing a hearing aid.

|2011

|0–3 yrs

|Board Book

|Jess Stockham

|The illustrations include a child wearing a hearing aid, a child wearing glasses and another child with a guide dog.

|2011

|2–6 yrs

|Thick Card

|Jess Stockham

|The illustrations include a receptionist wearing a hearing aid and a child wearing a hearing aid who is visiting a doctor. Another child has eczema. Part of a series which won a Bizziebay Silver Award in 2010.

|2011

|2–6 yrs

|Thick Card

|Annie Kulber

|The illustrations include a child wearing a hearing aid. Part of a series which won a Practical Pre-School Gold Award 2014 (UK).

|2010

|0–2 yrs

|Board Book

|Rachel Fuller

|The illustrations include a child wearing a hearing aid.

|2009

|1–3 yrs

|Board Book

|Jess Stockham

|The illustrations show the babysitter and child signing 'DUCK' to each other in BSL. This book has won a Practical Pre-School Bronze Award (UK) 2009, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, Best Book Award Gold (US) 2010{{cite web|url=https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Oppenheim+Toy+Portfolio+Gold+Book+Award|title=Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Book Award {{!}} Book awards {{!}} LibraryThing|website=www.librarything.com|access-date=2019-07-26}} and won a Bizziebaby Silver Award (UK) 2011.{{cite web|url=http://www.childs-play.com/news/the_first_time_range_wins_bizz.html|title=The First Time Range wins Bizziebaby Silver Award 2010/11|website=www.childs-play.com|access-date=2019-07-26}}

|2009

|2–6 yrs

|Tough Card

|Jess Stockham

|The illustrations include two background characters signing, while waiting in a queue to buy tickets. The adult is signing 'TICKET' in BSL and the child is signing 'EXCITED' in response. The pictures also include the hearing loop sign used in the UK. This book was a joint winner of a Practical Pre-School Bronze Award (UK) 2009 and a Bizziebaby Silver Award 2011.

|2009

|2–6 yrs

|Tough Card

|Jess Stockham

|The illustrations include a young child wearing a hearing aid while playing in the sand and another child wearing a safety helmet. Part of a series which won a Practical Parenting Gold Award.

|2008

|1–3 yrs

|Board Book

|Jess Stockham

|The illustrations include a child with a hearing aid and a child with Downs syndrome. Part of a series which won a Practical Parenting Gold Award.

|2008

|1–3 yrs

|Board Book

|Annie Kulber

|The illustrations include a child wearing a hearing aid. Part of a series which won a Practical Pre-School Gold Award (UK) 2014.

|2007

|0–2 yrs

|Board Book

|Sanja Rešcek

|The illustrations include a baby with a hearing aid.{{cite web|url=https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/b/bounce-and-jiggle/|title=Bounce and Jiggle|website=www.booktrust.org.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-07-19}} This book won a Practical Pre-School Bronze Award (UK) 2008.

|2007

|0–2 yrs

|Board Book

|Sanja Rešcek

|The illustrations include a baby with a hearing aid and a wheelchair-using parent or carer.{{cite web|url=https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/t/touch-and-tickle/|title=Touch and Tickle|website=www.booktrust.org.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-07-19}} This book has won the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Best Book Award Gold, Myra Robertson Baby Book of the Year 2009, Practical Pre-School Bronze Award 2008 and Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Special Needs Adaptable Product Award.

|2007

|0–2 yrs

|Board Book

|Anthony Lewis

|The double-sided character which can be inserted into each scene, features a girl wearing a hearing aid on a retainer cord on one side and a boy without a hearing aid on the other side.

|2007

|1–4 yrs

|Board Book

|Annie Kubler

|The illustrations include a child wearing a hearing aid and another with a cochlear implant.

|2006

|1–3 yrs

|Board Book

|Annie Kubler

|The illustrations include an adult wearing a hearing aid and a child wearing a leg splint.

|2005

|2–3 yrs

|Board Book

|Carol Thompson

|The illustrations include a baby wearing a hearing aid and a baby wearing an eye patch.

|2009

|0–2 yrs

|Tough Card

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Table of Children's picture books with deaf Characters

!Title

!Author/Illustrator

!Deaf characters

!Child's Age

!Year 1st Published

|Kelly Brakenhoff, Caterina Baldi

|Duke the Deaf Dog is the only deaf member of his family. He uses ASL and English to communicate.

|3-9 yrs

|2022

|Kelly Brakenhoff, Theresa Murray

|Duke the Deaf Dog is hard of hearing and his best friend Koa is deaf. They use ASL to chat with each other.

|3-9 yrs

|2022

|Shannon Stocker, Devon Holzwarth

|Based on the true story of Evelyn Glennie, the book tells the story of how during childhood her ears hurt and her auditory nerve became damaged so she started to wear hearing aids. She uses speech to communicate and the book tells how she overcame prejudice and went on to become a world-famous percussionist.

|4–8 yrs

|2022

|Pat-a-Cake  (Author),

Louise Forshaw

|The illustrations include a diverse range of people including a young boy wearing glasses and a red cochlear implant on the cover.

|3+ yrs

|2021

|Dr Pragya Agarwal, Louise Forshaw

|The illustrations include a diverse range of people including a white girl with a blue cochlear implant and girl with brown skin with a red cochlear implant and a boy with brown skin and a green hearing aid. The pictures also show a girl wearing glasses with an eye patch, a boy in a wheelchair and several children and adults wearing glasses.

|3+ yrs

|2021

|Yin Jianling, Yu Rong, Filip Selucky

|Based on the true story of professional Chinese dancer, Lihua Tai, who is Deaf and uses sign language and some speech to communicate. The book tells how the central character called MiLi aged two has an illness and becomes profoundly deaf. Initially, she experiences isolation and grief, later vividly discovering that she could experience sound through feeling the vibrations.

|4–8 yrs

|2021

|Jon Roberts, Hannah Rounding

|The book covers many children with disabilities including a child who is deaf.

|

|2021

|Adam Pottle, Ana Sanfelippo

|The book's protagonist Philomena is a young deaf girl who suffers from excessive feedback in her hearing aids. She cannot use her imagination when wearing them and prefers to communicate with sign language.

|

|2020

|Kelly Brakenhoff, Theresa Murray

|Duke the Deaf Dog wears a hearing aid on one ear and signs ASL with his family.

|3-9 yrs

|2020

|Raymond Antrobus

Polly Dunbar

|The central character baby Bear is deaf and gets hearing aids in the book. The storyline incorporates some deaf awareness tips.

|3–6

|2020

|Ashley Machovec

|The central character Mila tells the story of how her hearing loss was detected when she was a baby and how aged two she became eligible for and had cochlear implant surgery.

|

|2020

|Narita Snead, Dawn Campbell

|The central character Zola has a hearing aid fitted in the story.

|5–12 yrs

|2020

|Jessica Jordan-Hogan

|The central character Billie has microtia, is hard of hearing and wears a Baha. In the book Billie goes to school with a range of deaf characters including one who is deaf-blind (shown wearing hearing aids and glasses) and another who wears cochlear implants and a wheelchair-user wearing a Baha.

|

|2020

|Tabitha J Page, Alexander Kulieshov

|Mikah monkey is deaf, he lives in a Zoo enclosure with his family and uses Auslan sign language to communicate with his family.

|3–10 yrs

|2020

|Jenna Harmke,Toby Mikle

|The central character Bessie, a rabbit, has hearing aids fitted in the story.

|

|2020

|Maggie Klein

|The central character, Maxi has his first set of hearing aids fitted aged three. This is a central part of the story.

|

|2020

|Maya Wasserman, Lucy Rogers

|The main character a mermaid, Angel, is Deaf and wears bilateral cochlear implants, the book also features another deaf character called Merkitty and they communicate in BSL. The storyline incorporates some Deaf awareness tips and a BSL version is available on ITV's Signed Stories app. The book was published by the NDCS in the UK.

|

|2020

|Tanya Sauders

|The main character is a Bird called Ling Ling who is profoundly deaf and has "Magic ears" (cochlear implants) and speaks clearly now after many hours of speech therapy.{{Cite web|title=LING LING BIRD Seen and Heard|url=https://www.avidlanguage.com/linglingbird-seenandheard|access-date=2020-12-20|website=AVID Language|language=en-US}}

|6–8 yrs

|2020

|Kelly Brakenhoff, Theresa Murray

|Duke the Deaf Dog is the only deaf member of his family. He does not like being told "never mind."

|3-9 yrs

|2019

|Kay Hoffman Brocato, Cameron Wilson

|One of the main characters, Sammy the turtle wears cochlear implants.

|8–12 yrs

|2019

|Lori Degman

|One page has an illustration showing a child signing 'I LOVE YOU' in ASL with the text, "I read with my voice or my hands, using signs". The illustrations also feature a child reading a book in braille.

|4–7 yrs

|2019

|Becky Cymbaluk, Zuzana Svobodova

|The main character is a female superhero called Super Kena who wears two hearing aids.

|

|2019

|Angeliki Stamatopoulou-Pedersen, Tety Solou

|One of the main characters is Jacob and attends a mainstream school; he wears hearing aids.

|

|2019

|Maria Addison Gray

|The main character 'recruit' wears two blue hearing aids.

|

|2019

|Dr Zeenat Abdulshakur, Tajmul Riyaz Tajmul Rizwan,

Tazmeen Rukhsana Tajmul Rizwan

|The main characters are Ray and Rui who are identical twins. Ray has ANSD, wears hearing aids and uses speech to communicate.

|

|2019

|Mary L. Motley, Timy Sullivan, Jenny Campbell

|The central character, Acorn the dog is Deaf and once this is identified, the people caring for the dog teaches him to understand sign language.

|

|2019

|Adonia Smith Maureen Klusza

|The Cinderella in this story is Deaf and uses ASL to communicate.

|

|2019

|Kathy Kacer, Juliana Kolesova

|This book is based on part of the life of Princess Alice of Battenberg who was born deaf and used sign language, speech (English, German and Greek) and lip reading to communicate.{{cite web|url=https://www.britishdeafnews.co.uk/prince-william-pays-tribute-to-deaf-great-grandmother-princess-alice/|title=Prince William pays tribute to deaf great-grandmother Princess Alice|last=Lomax|first=Heather|date=2018-07-06|website=British Deaf News|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-08-14}}

|5–6 yrs

|2019

|Claire Keay

|The illustrations include a medical professional wearing a hearing aid. Also available as a board book.

|2–6 yrs

|2019

|Emma Dodd

|The illustrations include a BME young boy wearing a bright blue hearing aid in his right ear. There is also another child wearing glasses and a child sitting in a wheelchair.{{cite web|url=https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/h/happy-to-be-me/|title=Happy to Be Me|website=www.booktrust.org.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-09-04}}

|3–5 yrs

|2019

|Sarah Glenn Marsh, Stephanie Fizer Coleman

|This story is about a deaf monkey.

|4–7 yrs

|2019

|Sue Searle, Chris Hammond, Cath Smith, Shelley Ensor

|The illustrations include characters with hearing loss (CI and HA?) and diagrams of BSL signs.

|2–7 yrs

|2018

|Kathryn Heling, Deborah Hembrook, Rosie Butcher

|The illustrations include a girl with ginger hair wearing two hearing aids. There is also a character wearing glasses, another using a forearm crutch and another using a wheelchair.

|3–7 yrs

|2018

|Jay Miletsky, Erin Wozniak

|The illustrations include a 'rock' called Leesie wearing a BAHA{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/YouRockGroup/photos/a.1340886939362952/1344505955667717/?type=3|title=The "You Rock" Group|website=www.facebook.com|language=en|access-date=2019-08-18}} on a light pink soft band.

|4–8 yrs

|2018

|Amy Crockford, Daniel Butler

|The main character Amy is 10 years old and Deaf and uses ASL to communicate.

|

|2018

|Leah Carroll, Ekaterina Voytes

|One of the central characters, Magi, wears a cochlear implant on her right side.

|

|2018

|Mary Lyons, Tom Lyons

|The main character, Ezekiel, is Deaf and his owners instruction him in American Sign Language.

|

|2018

|Frances Clark

|The central character, Violet, loses her hearing as a child then gets a cochlear implant.

|5+ yrs

|2018

|Bill Wise, Adam Gustavson

|Book on the life of William Hoy who became deaf after having meningitis, aged three.

|6–11 yrs

|2018

|Alex Nadioo

|The central elephant character in this story wears bilateral hearing aids and the tiger is wearing bilateral cochlear implants.

|

|2018

|Phil Cummings, Hane Devries

|The central character is Deaf and uses Auslan sign language, writing and gestures to communicate.

|

|2018

|Tabitha Page, Alexander Kulieshov

|Mikah monkey was born deaf and uses Auslan and the BANZSL alphabet.{{Citation|last=Tabitha Page- Writer|title=Mikah's Big Move- Picture book trailer|date=2018-04-21|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqwZ4gvcfLY|access-date=2019-07-11}}

|3–7 yrs

|2018

|Heather McCarthy, Kate Ryan

|Justin has "hearing impairment" and the book contains some deaf awareness tips at the back. (Only available as a Kindle edition.)

|

|2017

|Allen Say

|This biography of James Castle who was born two months premature and was deaf and autistic was an accomplished artist despite difficulties with communication as he never learned to read or write, use sign language or speech. The Book does not contain images of James's work. This book won the ALA Schneider Family Book Award for Young Children in 2018.{{cite web|url=http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2018/02/2018-schneider-family-book-awards-recipients-named|title=2018 Schneider Family Book Awards recipients named|last=JCARMICHAEL|date=2018-02-12|website=News and Press Center|language=en|access-date=2019-08-14}}

|8–12 yrs

|2017

|Kitson Jazynka

|Picture book biography of Helen Keller.

|5–8 yrs

|2017

|Ava Beese,, Lilli Beese, Nick Beese,

Romina Martí

|The central character, Ava, is Deaf and wears hearing aids and also uses BSL to communicate. The book also features her parents who are both Deaf and many other Deaf role models.

|6–8 yrs

|2017

|Doreen Rappaport, Matt Tavares

|A picture biography of Helen Keller who became Deaf-Blind aged 19 months and used a mixture of the Rochester method, ASL, speech and braille.

|6-9 yrs

|2017

|Paul Miller

|The main characters are twins and one twin, Anders, is Deaf and uses ... to communicate.

|

|2017

|Cerrie Burnell, Laura Ellen Anderson

|The main character wears a BAHA hearing aid on a soft band.{{cite web|url=https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/f/fairy-magic/|title=Fairy Magic|website=www.booktrust.org.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-08-22}}

|3–6 yrs

|2017

|Jana Novotny-Hunter, Kay Widdowson

|The main character wears a hearing aid.{{cite web|url=https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/a/a-bear-hug-at-bedtime/|title=A Bear Hug at Bedtime|website=www.booktrust.org.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-07-11}}

|3–7 yrs

|2017

|Dawn Doig

|Central character Ahmed can't hear speech before being fitted with his hearing aids.

|

|2017

|Emily Christensen

|The central character, Mary, uses sign language, speech and bilateral cochlear implants to communicate.

|

|2017

|Karen Harlow, Sandra Aguilar

|Jake is one of the two main characters, he is deaf and has a cochlear implant.

|4–7 yrs

|2017

|Gianna Righi

|The central character, Emma, was born profoundly deaf and gets a cochlear implant after trailing her hearing aid.

|5–6 yrs

|2016

|Emily Mikoski

|The central character, Max, wears hearing aids. (Kindle edition only)

|

|2016

|Genevieve Yusuf, Shermain Philip

| The central character, Ranvir the Elephant, is Deaf.

|

|2016

|Karen Gee, Kim Wymer

|The main character, Dodger, meets Holly, a Deaf dog and they learn to communicate.

|

|2016

|Myron Uhlberg, Ted Papoulas

|The book is written from the perspective of one of the hearing children of Deaf parents who use ASL to communicate. This book has won several awards including Notable Books for a Global Society 2017,{{cite web|url=https://www.clrsig.org/nbgs-lists.html|title=NBGS Lists|website=CL/R SIG|language=en|access-date=2019-07-31}} Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2017,{{cite web|url=https://cbcbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Notables2017.pdf |title=Supplemental list |date=2017 |website=cbcbooks.org |access-date=2019-09-27}} CCBC Choices 2017,{{cite web |url=https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/Choices_17_list.pdf |title=CCBC Choices 2017|date=2017 |website= ccbc.education.wisc.edu|access-date=2019-09-27}} Best Children's Books of the Year (Starred) 2017.{{cite web|url=https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=ccl |title=The Best Children's Books of the Year [2017edition |date=April 6, 2017 |website=educate.bankstreet.edu |format=PDF |access-date=2019-09-27}}

|6–10 yrs

|2016

|Nancy Churnin, Jez Tuya

|William Hoy is Deaf and uses ASL to communicate. This book has won several awards including Storytelling World Resource Award Honor Book 2017,{{cite web|url=http://www.storytellingworld.com/2017/|title=2017 Storytelling World Resource Awards|website=www.storytellingworld.com}} New York Public Library Best Books for Kids 2016,{{cite web|url=https://www.nypl.org/books-music-movies/recommendations/best-books/childrens|title=Best Books for Kids|website=Best Books for Kids|language=en|access-date=2019-07-31}} Best Children's Books of the Year 2017 and Louisiana Young Readers' Choice list 2018.{{cite web |title=Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Awards 2018-2019 |url=http://www.state.lib.la.us/files/LYRC/LYRC_2018-2019_Brochure_V4.pdf |publisher=Louisiana Center for the Book in the State Library of Louisiana |accessdate=27 September 2019}}

|4–8 yrs

|2016

|Alex Nadioo

|Daisy, one of the main characters, wears a hearing aid.

|4–7 yrs

|2016

|Mrs. Barbara Richford

|The central character is Deaf

|5–6 yrs

|2016

|Sonya B. P. Giridhar

|The central character, Simone, uses an FM system to hear the teacher. As her ears are covered by her hair in the illustrations, you can't see the cochlear implant or hearing aids.

|

|2016

|James Kerwin, Marie Kerwin

|One of the two main characters, James, is Profoundly Deaf and uses Auslan to communicate.

|

|2015

|Jim Bombicino, Gildas Chatal

|The central character Skyler has hearing loss and wears hearing aids and uses speech to communicate.

|

|2015

|Sharon Straka Hendricks

|David, the Deaf student, is bullied but after spending a day Deaf he learns some ASL and then stops bullying David.

|5-9 yrs

|2015

|Maggie Klein

|The central character, Maxi, gets hearing aids.

|

|2015

|Julia Donaldson, Nick Sharratt

|The illustrations show a monkey wearing a hearing aid.

|

|2015

|Brad Meltzer

|A picture book biography of Helen Keller.

|

|2015

|Quentin Blake

|There are five main characters and one is deaf.{{cite web|url=https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/t/the-five-of-us/|title=The Five of Us|website=www.booktrust.org.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-07-21}}

|5–7 yrs

|2014

|Michael Dooling

|This book is a biography of Thomas Edison. He became Deaf (totally deaf on his left and hard of hearing on his right side) aged approximately 9–12 years old. He used speech and lip-reading to communicate.{{cite web|url=https://www.gallaudet.edu/tutorial-and-instructional-programs/english-center/reading-english-as-second-language/practice-exercises/thomas-edison|title=Thomas Edison|website=www.gallaudet.edu|language=en|access-date=2019-08-13}}

|

|2014

|Donna Jo Napoli Amy Bates (Il

|The mother and daughter in this story use ASL to communicate.

|

|2014

|Jennifer Rosner Kristina Swarner

|One of the main characters, Bayla, is Deaf and cares for her baby.

|3–7 yrs

|2014

|Fara Augustover

|The central character, Harmony, gets a hearing aid and uses an FM system at school.

|

|2014

|Marilyn C. Rose

|The main character, Kylie, loses her hearing after an illness aged six and after lip-reading and using sign language for two years (without trailing hearing aids) had a cochlear implant.{{cite web |title=Kylie Gets a Cochlear Implant ebook by Marilyn C. Rose |url=https://www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/kylie-gets-a-cochlear-implant |website=Rakuten Kobo |accessdate=27 September 2019 |language=en-us}}

|

|2013

|Jack Hughes

|The central character, Dachy, is deaf and uses a hearing aid.

|8–12 yrs

|2013

|Holly M. Barry, Jennifer Thermes

|The central character of this book is Helen Keller who became deaf-blind after an illness at 19 months old. In the book, she uses ASL fingerspelling, braille and speech to communicate.

|4–8 yrs

|2013

|Bob Kennedy

|The central character has bilateral cochlear implants fitted in the book.

|

|2013

|Matthew Robins

|One of the central characters, Max, is Deaf and uses BSL to communicate.

|

|2013

|Deborah Hopkinson, Raul Colón

|This book is about the life of Helen Keller (Deaf-Blind) and her teacher Annie Sullivan (Blind.)

|4–8 yrs

|2012

|Bill Wise,

Adam Gustavson

|A picture book biography of William Hoy{{cite web |last1=Buccafurni |first1=Christina |title=William "Dummy" Hoy |url=https://www.startasl.com/william-dummy-hoy |website=www.startasl.com |accessdate=27 September 2019 |date=27 April 2016}} who became Deaf after having meningitis aged three.

|6–11 yrs

|2012

|Doreen Rappaport, Matt Tavares

|A picture book biography of Helen Keller.

|6–8 yrs

|2012

|Wendy Kupfer

|The central character Almigal has lost her hearing and then gets bilateral cochlear implants. Mom's Choice Gold Award Winner for Values and Life Lessons.

|5–7 yrs

|2012

|Jamee Riggio Heelan, Nicola Simmonds

|The central character, Chris, is Deaf uses sign language, hearing aids, lip-reading to communicate.

|5–8 yrs

|2012

|Melanie Paticoff

|The central character, Sophie, is a dog with hearing loss who uses a cochlear implant.

|

|2012

|Julia Donaldson, Karen George

|The fairy is the story has difficulty hearing speech with clarity and the illustrations show a bow in the fairy but no clearly visible hearing technology.

|3–5 yrs

|2011

|Samantha Brownlie

|The main character, Samantha, wears a hearing aid and uses an FM unit.

|

|2011

|Debbie Blackington

|The main character, Gracie has hearing loss and gets hearing aids.

|

|2011

|Joanne Zellweger, Andy Elliot

|One of the main characters, John has a hearing aid on his left ear and a cochlear implant on his right side and communicates using speech.

|

|2010

|Myron Uhlberg, Colin Bootman

|The father in the story is a Deaf ASL user. This book has won American Library Association Schneider Award, the 2006 Storytelling World Award, the IBBY Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities, and International Reading Association Teacher's Choice Award

|4–8 yrs

|2010

|Hannah Cumming

|The illustrations include two background characters signing to each other.

|

|2010

|Natalie Johnson

|The Rabbit gets hearing aids.

|

|2010

|Susanna Dussling

|The central character, Sunny, is deaf and initially, she uses hearing aids and then moves onto cochlear implants.

|

|2010

|Melanie Paticoff

|The main character Sophie is deaf, she has hearing aids initially then uses a cochlear implant to 'learn to listen.'

|

|2010

|Judith L. Roth, Brooke Rothshank

|One of the two main characters, Julia, is Deaf and uses ASL to communicate

|6–10 yrs

|2009

|Connie Losacano, Matthew Graves

|The main character gets hearing aids and then can hear sounds.

|

|2009

|Kate Gaynor

|The central character, Ben, is Deaf, he goes to a mainstream school and uses hearing aids, sign language and speech to communicate?. This book was awarded a silver medal at the Moonbeam children's books awards in 2009.

|

|2009

|Myron Uhlberg, Henri Sorensen

|The father is Deaf and uses ASL to communicate. Some of his father's colleagues are also Deaf ASL users.

|4–8 yrs

|2009

|Jennifer Moore-Mallinos, Marta Fabrega

|The main character, Lana, is Deaf and uses a combination hearing aids, FM system, lip reading and ASL to communicate.

|6-9 yrs

|2009

|Benjamin Fudge, Tim Edmonson

|The central character Enrique was born deaf and then he is taught sign language by he meets other Deaf children.

|3+ yrs

|2008

|Lesa Cline-Ransome, James Ransome

|This book is a picture book biography of Helen Keller.

|5-9 yrs

|2008

|Maureen Cassidy Riski

|The central character Abby wears purple hearing aids and has progressive hearing loss and then gets cochlear implants. The book focuses on the process of the cochlear implant assessment and then the aftercare.

|

|2008

|Emily Arnold McCully

|Based on the true story of how Deaf education in America was developed, Alice becomes Deaf after illness aged two.

|6-9 yrs

|2008

|Lesley Bremington, Karen Middleton

|One of the main characters Hattie is deaf and the illustrations show her wearing a cochlear implant.

|

|2008

|Melissa Griswold, Cynthia Fisher

|The two main characters, Molly and Max, –both are Deaf; Molly uses a cochlear implant and Max wears hearing aids. Their teacher uses an FM system to help them hear.

|

|2007

|Laila Lavan, Beatriz Iglesias

|The central character is using a hearing aid and uses sign language to communicate.{{cite web|url=https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/l/lucy-loud-and-clear/|title=Lucy: Loud and Clear|website=www.booktrust.org.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-08-22}}

|5–6 yrs

|2007

|John F. Anderson Jr., William Bushell

|The books central character Jack uses a cochlear implant and spoken language to communicate.

|4–12 yrs?

|2004

|Dawn McMillan, Warwick Bennett

|The main character, Jason, is deaf and wears hearing aids and uses sign language to communicate.{{cite web|url=http://pajka.blogspot.com/2007/09/international-childrens-books-with-deaf.html|title=Deaf Characters in Adolescent Literature: International Children's Books with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Characters|last=Pajka,ph.d|first=Sharon|date=2007-09-01|website=Deaf Characters in Adolescent Literature|access-date=2019-08-23}}

|7+ yrs

|2004

|Dawn McMillan

|The main character, Jason, is deaf and wears hearing aids and uses sign language to communicate.

|

|2004

|Amy Knoll

|The central character uses hearing aids and speech to communicate.

|

|2004

|Isaac Millman

|The main character who uses ASL to communicate teaches some signs to a new child, then the children see a performance put on by the Little theatre of the deaf.

|4–8 yrs

|2004

|Isaac Millman

|The main character Moses uses ASL to communicate with his hearing family and teaches his young sister some ASL.

|4–6 yrs

|2003

|Anita Riggio

|The central character, Luke, is Deaf and uses sign language to communicate

|5–7 yrs

|2003

|Sally O. Lee

|The central character has single sided deafness.

|

|2003

|Isaac Millman

|The main character, who uses ASL to communicate, goes with his deaf classmates to see a concert, one of the musicians is also deaf.

|5–8 yrs

|2002

|Patricia Lakin, Diana Magnuson

|This book tells the story of part of Helen Keller's life.

|6–7 yrs

|2002

|Isaac Millman

|The main character, Moses, uses ASL to communicate goes to a school for the Deaf.

|5–8 yrs

|2000

|Eleanor Archer

|The central character Katy is Profoundly Deaf and uses BSL to communicate. Based on a true story{{cite web|url=https://terptree.co.uk/deaf-people/guest-blog-deaf-zookeeper/|title=Guest Blog - Deaf Zookeeper|date=2016-08-18|website=terptree|language=en|access-date=2019-08-01}}

|

|2000

|Gloria Roth Lowell, Karen Stormer Brooks

|One of the main characters, Elana, the newborn baby is Deaf and wears hearing aids.

|

|2000

Julie Anderson

|The illustrations show the main character, a young girl wearing a hearing aid on her right ear.

|3–5 yrs

|2000

|Rachna Gilmore, Gordon Sauve

|The main character, Scully, is deaf and wears hearing aids. This book won the 1999 Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Literature

|6–7 yrs

|1999

|Carole Addabbo Valentine

|The central character, Dina, is Deaf and then learns sign language after she has run away from her hearing parents which don't know and won't learn sign language.

|

|1997

|Jan Wahl, Kim Howard

|The central character Rosa struggles to hear speech without the help of her parrot that repeats phrases loudly.

|

|1999

|Raewyn Caisley, Leanne Fleming

|The main characters baby brother is born deaf. The main character wants to experience deafness for himself so stuffs his ears with cotton balls and wears headphones for a day, he thinks that his brother is going to be a football star.

|

|1996

|Gary Clemente, Eugene Yelchin

|The central character Cosmo gets hearing aids in the story.

|

|1994

|Patricia Lakin, Robert C. Steel

|The central character is Deaf and he tells the story. He uses ASL and lip-reading to communicate.

|4–8 yrs

|1994

|Deborah Abbott, Henry Kisor, Leslie Morrill

|Written by Henry Kisor (Deaf after a period of illness aged three) and his wife (hearing) about the family dynamics where one parent has hearing loss. The father in the family went to a mainstream school and has excellent literacy skills and uses lip-reading and speech to communicate.

|4–8 yrs

|1994

|Inez MacKinnon, Christy MacKinnon

|This book was compiled by Inez MacKinnon about Christy MacKinnon's childhood, Christy created the illustrations. Christy became Deaf after an illness aged two.{{cite web|url=http://capebretonsmagazine.com/modules/publisher/item.php?itemid=4463|title=Cape Breton's Magazine|last=McNeil|first=J.|date=2009-02-11|website=capebretonsmagazine.com|language=English|access-date=2019-08-09}}{{cite web|url=https://liblists.wrlc.org/biographies/55848|title=Maxcy, Christy MacKinnon {{!}} Gallaudet University Library Guide to Deaf Biographies and Index to Deaf Periodicals|website=liblists.wrlc.org|access-date=2019-08-09}}

|

|1993

|Dawn L. Watkins

|One of the main characters, Seth, is Deaf who communicates using speech and ASL.

|

|1993

|Barbara D. Booth

|The main character, Mandy, is Deaf and uses ASL and lip reading to communicate.

|4–8 yrs

|1991

|David A. Adler, John Wallner, lexandra Wallner

|A picture book biography of Helen Keller's who was deaf-blind after an illness at aged 19 months.

|4–8 yrs

|1990

|Lorraine Aseltine, Evelyn Mueller, Nancy Tait

|The main character is Deaf; he signs and wears hearing aids and he meets an older Deaf child.

|4+ yrs

|1986

|Jeanne Whitehouse Peterson

|One of the main characters, Asian, is profoundly Deaf; he does not use hearing technology and uses lip-reading and gestures to communicate. This book was a Coretta Scott King Award Honor Book (1979) and a Reading Rainbow Selection Children's Books of 1977 (Library of Congress).

|4–8 yrs

|1984

|Ron Hamilton, Peggy B. Deal

|The main character is a Deaf boy who uses sign language to communicate. Published by the National Association of the Deaf.

|

|1983

|Jan Wahl,

Tomie dePaola

|Jamie the central character becomes deaf after having German Measles.

|

|1978

|Ada Bassett Litchfield

|The central character wears hearing aids with a body-worn box typical of the technology worn by deaf children in the 1970s.

|

|1976

|Author

|Deaf characters

|Child's age

|Year 1st Published

|C L Reid, Elena Aiello

|Emma is Deaf and wears a cochlear implant. She uses speech and ASL or BSL (depending on the edition) to communicate depending on the situation and who she is communicating with. Early reader chapter book.

|5–7 yrs

|2023

|C L Reid, Elena Aiello

|Emma is Deaf and wears a cochlear implant. She uses speech and ASL or BSL (depending on the edition) to communicate depending on the situation and who she is communicating with. Early reader chapter book.

|5–7 yrs

|2023

|C L Reid, Elena Aiello

|Emma is Deaf and wears a cochlear implant. She uses speech and ASL or BSL (depending on the edition) to communicate depending on the situation and who she is communicating with. Early reader chapter book.

|5–7 yrs

|2022

|Tarnelia Matthews, Lucy Rogers

|Jazz is deaf, wears hearing aids, and has a hearing dog to "listen out for the sounds I don't hear because I'm deaf." Phase 5 book.

|6–7 yrs

|2022

|C L Reid, Elena Aiello

|Emma is Deaf and wears a cochlear implant. She uses speech and ASL or BSL (depending on the edition) to communicate depending on the situation and who she is communicating with. Early reader chapter book.

|5–7 yrs

|2022

|C L Reid, Elena Aiello

|Emma is Deaf and wears a cochlear implant. She uses speech and ASL or BSL (depending on the edition) to communicate depending on the situation and who she is communicating with. Early reader chapter book.

|5–7 yrs

|2022

|C L Reid, Elena Aiello

|Emma is Deaf and wears a cochlear implant. She uses speech and ASL to communicate depending on the situation and who she is communicating with. Early reader chapter books.

|5–7 yrs

|2022

|C L Reid, Elena Aiello

|Emma is Deaf and wears a cochlear implant. She uses speech and ASL or BSL (depending on the edition) to communicate depending on the situation and who she is communicating with. Early reader chapter book.

|5–7 yrs

|2021

|C L Reid, Elena Aiello

|Emma is Deaf and wears a cochlear implant. She uses speech and ASL or BSL (depending on the edition) to communicate depending on the situation and who she is communicating with. Early reader chapter book.

|5–7 yrs

|2021

|Joyce Dunbar,

John Shelley

|The central character, Dillan, experiences progressive hearing loss and wants things to go back to the way things were. Lime book band.

|6–7 yrs

|2020

|C L Reid, Elena Aiello

|Emma is Deaf and wears a cochlear implant. She uses speech and ASL or BSL (depending on the edition) to communicate depending on the situation and who she is communicating with. Early reader chapter book.

|5–7 yrs

|2020

|C L Reid, Elena Aiello

|Emma is Deaf and wears a cochlear implant. She uses speech and ASL or BSL (depending on the edition) to communicate depending on the situation and who she is communicating with. Early reader chapter book.

|5–7 yrs

|2020

|C L Reid, Elena Aiello

|Emma is Deaf and wears a cochlear implant. She uses speech and ASL or BSL (depending on the edition) to communicate depending on the situation and who she is communicating with. Early reader chapter book.

|5–7 yrs

|2020

|C L Reid, Elena Aiello

|Emma is Deaf and wears a cochlear implant. She uses speech and ASL or BSL (depending on the edition) to communicate depending on the situation and who she is communicating with. Early reader chapter book.

|5–7 yrs

|2020

|Vic Parker

|

|5–7 yrs

|2012

|Monia Hughes, Julie Anderson

|The illustrations show the main character who is a young girl wearing a hearing aid on her right ear building a de. There is one very simple sentence per page.

|4–5 yrs

|2007

|Heather Hammond

|The central character is a young Deaf boy who uses sign language (Auslan) to communicate, and attends a school for Deaf children.

|5–7 yrs

|2006

|+

Comics with deaf characters

!Title

!Author / Illustrator

!Deaf characters

!Child's Age

!Year 1st Published

|Juan Miguel Aguilera, Rafael Fonteriz

|The central character Manuel Gomez is a police detective who was born "deaf mute". He communicates using special glasses.

|

|2019

|Marvel Comics

|It features Sapheara a superhero with bilateral pink cochlear implants and Superhero Blue Ear with two blue hearing aids. This comic was created in partnership with the Children's Hearing Institute.{{cite web |title=Iron Man: Sound Effects (2014) #1 |publisher= Comic Book DB |url=http://www.comicbookdb.com/issue.php?ID=348704 |website=www.comicbookdb.com |accessdate=27 September 2019}}

|8–11 yrs

|2014

|Juan Miguel Aguilera, Rafael Fonteriz

|The central character, Manuel Gomez, is a police detective who was born "deaf mute", he communicates using special glasses.

|

|2009

|

|Deaf superhero, Echo, was born Deaf and uses ASL, Indo-Pakistani Sign Language, art and performance and lip-reading to communicate.

|

|2007

|

|The book has Deaf superhero character, Ronin, (also known as Maya Lopez and Echo).

|

|2005

|Juan Miguel Aguilera, Rafael Fonteriz

|The central character, Manuel Gomez, is a police detective who was born "deaf mute"; he communicates using special glasses.

|

|2003

|Random House

|The villain Shriek uses deafness as a shield and uses sound as a weapon.

|

|2002

|Marvel Comics

|The superhero Echo was born Deaf and uses both ASL and a Native American system for communicating between tribes speaking different languages.{{cite web|url=https://deafliterature.wordpress.com/2016/04/10/deaf-comicsgraphic-novels/|title=Deaf Comics/Graphic Novels|date=2016-04-10|website=deafliterature|language=en|access-date=2019-08-22}}

|

|1999

Volume 2, #9-15

|

|One of the characters, Maya Lopez, also called Echo & Ronin, is deaf and as she gets older becomes a part of the Deaf community. Echo was born Deaf and uses ASL, Indian Sign Language, art and performance and lip-reading to communicate.

|

|2003

|

|One of the characters, Maya Lopez, also called Echo & Ronin, is deaf and becomes part of the Deaf community. Echo uses ASL, Indian Sign Language, art and performance and lip-reading to communicate.

|

|2004

|Elizabeth Laird, Pauline Hazelwood

|One of the characters is deaf and helps when a neighbour is injured.

|

|1997

|DC Comics

|The Amazing Allergo (musician) loses his hearing which then causes him to become evil.

|

|1970

|

|Archie the main character befriends a deaf character and teaches her to lipread.

|

|1970?

|+

Graphic novels with deaf characters

!Title

!Author

!Deaf characters / Awards won

!Child's age

!Year 1st published

|Matt Daigle

|This comic book includes a series of comics featuring Desmond who is Deaf and uses ASL to communicate.{{cite web|url=http://www.thatdeafguy.com/?page_id=15|title=That Deaf Guy - Cast|access-date=2019-08-22}}

|

|2014

|Cece Bell

|This loosely autobiographical book is about Cece who wore hearing aids at school and used lip-reading and speech to communicate. The book won the 2015 Eisner Award for Best Publication for Kids (ages 8–12){{cite web|url=https://www.polygon.com/2015/7/11/8931399/2015-eisner-award-winners|title=The Oscars of comics: A visual guide to this year's Eisner Awards|last=Polo|first=Susana|date=2015-07-11|website=Polygon|access-date=2019-08-22}} and a Newbery Honor in 2015.

|8–12 yrs

|2014

|Joseph Lambert

|This book is about the lives of Helen Keller (Deaf-Blind) and her teacher Annie Sullivan who was Blind.

|10+ yrs

|2012

|Scott R. Welvaert, Cynthia Martin, Keith Tucker

|This book is a biography of Helen Keller and her adult life advocating for the Blind community.

|9–12 yrs

|2006

|[https://.kerryomalleycerra.com Kerry O'Malley Cerra]

|This #ownvoices contemporary middle-grade novel follows 12-year-old Rayne who, at odds with her parents over her sudden hearing loss and looming cochlear implant surgery, sets off on a journey where she discovers that even though her ears may be broken, she is not. Written in first person point of view, the author uses *** to denote words the main character cannot hear, effectively putting the readers into her shoes.

|8–14 yrs

|hearing loss, cochlear implants, having a say in your medical decisions

|2022

|Megan Rix,

Tim Budgen

|The central character, Lizzie (eight) is deaf. In the book she lives at home with her deaf parents, they all wear colourful bilateral hearing aids and at-home use BSL to communicate. Accessibility is gently addressed when the characters experience communication difficulties such as trying to lip-read in the dark, when people don't speak clearly or turn away mid-sentence and not everyone uses or understands BSL. They make a video relay call to the police through a BSL interpreter.

|6–8 yrs

|Dog lovers, Detective

|2021

|Megan Rix,

Tim Budgen

|The central character, Lizzie (eight), is deaf. She lives at home with her deaf parents. They all wear colourful bilateral hearing aids and at home use BSL to communicate.{{Cite web|title=Lizzie and Lucky: The Mystery of the Missing Puppies|url=https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/l/lizzie-and-lucky-the-mystery-of-the-missing-puppies/|access-date=2022-02-01|website=www.booktrust.org.uk|language=en-GB}}

|6–8 yrs

|Dog lovers, Detective

|2021

|Magdalena Newman, Nathaniel Newman Treacher Collins syndrome and has had 67 operations for him to be able to breathe, eat and hear better. He wears BAHA hearing aids. This book is co-written with his mother and includes graphic information on his treatment.

|10–14 yrs

|Treacher Collins syndrome Autobiography

|2020

|Valli Gideons, Harper Gideons, Priscila Soares

|The central character, Harper, has one cochlear implant and one hearing aid. It discusses different communication methods including speech and ASL and different hearing technology including Baha hearing aids,

|7–12 yrs

|Deaf awareness

|2020

|Austin Aslan

|The central character is a 12-year-old CODA. Both his parents are Deaf ASL users. He is fluent in ASL.

|8–12 yrs

|Racing

|2020

|Samantha Baines

|The central character, Harriet (10), wears hearing aids and uses speech to communicate. When she finds herself defending the human race against extra-terrestrial characters with her Gran she discovers that her hearing aids as well as amplifying sound can also tune into the wavelength of many languages. There is a non-binary character called Robin also in the book.{{Cite web|url=https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/h/harriet-versus-the-galaxy/|title=Harriet Versus the Galaxy|website=www.booktrust.org.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-02-18}} Harriet lives with her grandmother while her father is away driving lorries and there is no mention of her mother. The book has many black and white illustrations.

|7–11 yrs

|Space adventure

|2019

|Erin Falligant, Maike Plenzke

|This book is made by the company American Girl and a matching doll is also available. The main character Joss (10) was born profoundly deaf in her left ear and some hearing in her right ear. She wears a hearing aid on her right ear (sometimes with a headband). She predominately uses speech to communicate at school but her mother uses ASL when communicating with her and her friends and brother sign to her when she isn't wearing her hearing aid (e.g. when she is on the beach). She takes her hearing aid out for some activities such as surfing and uses an FM system at the cheerleading gym. She requests that her friends face her when speaking to her and sit on her right side and sometimes she needs to ask them to repeat themselves etc.

|8–10 yrs

|Friendship, Surfing And Family

|2019

|Erin Falligant

Maike Plenzke

|This book is made by the company American Girl and so a matching doll is also available. The main character Joss (10) was born profoundly deaf in her left ear and some hearing in her right ear. She wears a hearing aid on her right ear (sometimes with a headband).{{Cite web|url=https://www.americangirldollnews.com/post/american-girl-of-the-year-2020-joss-kendrick-book-1-info|title=Post|website=agnews|date=26 December 2019 |language=en|access-date=2020-01-10}} She predominately uses speech to communicate at school but her mother uses ASL when communicating with her and her friends and brother sign to her when she isn't wearing her hearing aid e.g. when she's on the beach. She takes her hearing aid out for some activities such as surfing and uses an FM system at the cheerleading gym. She requests that her friends face her when speaking to her and sit on her right side and sometimes she needs to ask them to repeat themselves etc.

|8–10 yrs

|Friendship, Surfing and Family

|2019

|Patrice Lawrence,

Becka Moor

|Rosa is one of the two main characters wears a hearing aid and uses sign language and lip-reading to communicate. She has two fathers. This book has a dyslexia-friendly layout.

|8–10 yrs

|Mystery, Friendship

|2019

|Myron Uhlberg

|This book is an adaptation of Myron Uhlberg's memoir 'Hands of My Father' containing details of his childhood as the hearing son of Deaf parents.

|9–12 yrs

|Autobiography

|2019

|Austin Aslan

|The central character is a 12-year-old CODA. Both his parents are Deaf ASL users. He is fluent in ASL.

|8–12 yrs

|Racing

|2018

|Alex Gino

|The central character is a 12-year-old girl and her parents have a baby, Emma, who is born deaf. The book includes their initial feelings of grief and consultations with professionals where they are encouraged to consider a CI and not to use gestures or ASL with their baby. The main Deaf character is Derek{{cite web|url=http://pajka.blogspot.com/|title=Deaf Characters in Adolescent Literature|website=pajka.blogspot.com|language=en|access-date=2019-08-11}} who uses ASL as his first language and is Black. He attends California School for the Deaf. There are several other Deaf characters in the story.

|8–12 yrs

|Racism & Attitudes towards difference including Deafness.

|2018

|Isaiah John Baier

|This memoir is written by 11-year-old Isaiah,{{cite web|url=https://www.hear-the-world.com/en/sounds-good-blog/742|title=Not many people get to be bionic! – Hear the World Foundation|website=www.hear-the-world.com|access-date=2019-08-22}} he became deaf after having meningitis at 20 months olds and wears a hearing aid on one ear, has a cochlear implant on the other side and uses speech when communicating.

|8+ yrs

|Humorous / autobiographical 11-year-old's diary

|2018

|Tim Green

|The central character, Landon (12), is Deaf and has cochlear implants and uses speech to communicate.

|8–12 yrs

|Sports fiction - American Football

|2017

|Shari Green

|The central character, Macy (12), is Deaf and uses ASL to communicate as well as note writing. This book won the ALA Schneider Family Book Award, for Middle Grade Books in 2018 and has been shortlisted for many other awards.

|8–12 yrs

|Friendships & family life

|2017

|Megan Rix

|The central character, Jake (11), became deaf after having meningitis as a younger child. He attends a mainstream school and wears hearing aids and uses lip reading and ASL to communicate better. He is lonely and longs for a hearing dog.

|9–11 yrs

|Animal lovers

|2016

|Evangeline Duran Fuentes

|One of the main characters, Jake (12), became deaf after having meningitis. He uses ASL to communicate with his mother and he is teaching two friends ASL. He does not wear hearing aids.

|9–12 yrs

|Friendships and relationships

|2015

|Teddy O'Malley,

Angie Dickens

|One of the characters, Dustin ,is Deaf and uses ASL to communicate. There is another character called Cissy who is blind.

|6-9 yrs

|Friendship and Adventure

|2015

|Dale C. Jellison

|The central character, Jake (12), wears a hearing aid. He loses his hearing aid when he is left alone in a remote area.

|7–12 yrs

|Friendship and Adventure

Set in 1986 American Camp

|2014

|Teddy O'Malley, Angie Dickens

|One of the characters, Dustin, is Deaf and uses ASL to communicate.

|6-9 yrs

|Friendship and Adventure

|2014

(Destiny and Faith series #2)

|Teddy O'Malley, Angie Dickens

|One of the characters, Dustin, is Deaf and uses ASL to communicate, other characters sign fluently despite never meeting a Deaf person before.

|6-9 yrs

|Friendship and Adventure

|2014

|R. J. Palacio

|The central character August (10) has Treacher Collins syndrome and has had 27 surgeries to correct his craniofacial anomalies. He also wears BAHA hearing aids. In the book, he starts attending the local mainstream school where he is bullied. This book is written from a variety of perspectives and is required reading for 4–5 graders at schools across the US. The book was made into a film where August still has the craniofacial syndrome but no longer has hearing loss so does not wear BAHA hearing aids. The book is a New York Times bestseller and is on Time Magazine's 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time and on the Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews List of Best of Children's Books, amongst many others.

|8–12 yrs

|Learning to accept others

|2012

|Julia Jones, Claudia Myatt

|The main character Donny (13) is a CODA, his mother, Skye, is profoundly deaf and dyslexic and uses BSL to communicate.{{cite web|url=https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/t/the-salt-stained-book/|title=The Salt-Stained Book|website=www.booktrust.org.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-08-31}}

|9+ yrs

|Sailing

|2011

|Julia Jones, Claudia Myatt

|The main character Donny (14) is a CODA. His mother, Skye, is Profoundly Deaf and dyslexic and uses BSL to communicate.

|9+ yrs

|Sailing

|2011

|Sterling North

|This book is a biography of Thomas Edison. He became deaf at approximately 8–12 years of age. Study notes{{Cite web|url=http://www.gettysburg.k12.pa.us/site/default.aspx?PageID=1981|title=3rd Grade / Young Thomas Edison|website=Lincoln Elementary|language=en|access-date=2020-01-20}}

|5–11 yrs

|American History

|2009

|Christine Harris

|One of the main characters, Jordy, is deaf and uses Auslan to communicate.

|9–12 yrs

|Thriller

|2008

|Stephen Culter, Jodi Cutler

|One of the main characters in the book, Luca (10ish), is Deaf and has a cochlear implant.

|8–12 yrs

|Sports Fiction -Baseball

|2007

|Keelin Carey Kristina Guevremont, Nicole Marsh

|This collection of short stories written by Canadian Deaf children, the book includes several different Deaf characters, including Deaf friends, sign language and an adult who discourages sign language.

|8–12 yrs

|Friendships And Deaf identity

|2007

(American Girl: Julie #6)

|Megan McDonald

|One of the main characters Joy (nine) is deaf and uses lip-reading, ASL and unclear speech to communicate while attending the local mainstream school.

|8+ yrs

|Set in 1970s America

|2007

|Jacqueline Woodson

|The central characters brother is a Deaf ASL user called Sean, he is also a Black African-American. This book won a Newbery Honor in 2008.{{cite web|url=http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberyhonors/newberymedal|title=Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922-Present|last=admin|date=1999-11-30|website=Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)|language=en|access-date=2019-08-16}}

|9–12 yrs

|Set in the 1970s / race / region and understanding difference

|2007

(Deaf Child Crossing #2)

|Marlee Matlin

|The central character, Megan (nine), is Deaf and an ASL user. She attends a mainstream school and has a Sign language interpreter with her at School. A secondary character Justin is autistic and Megan teaches him some ASL.

|8–12 yrs

|Friendship

|2007

|Roz Rosen, Yiqiao Wang

|This collection of 20 adapted classic short stories e.g. Beauty and the Beast. Each story has been adapted to include Deaf characters or characters who sign in ASL.{{cite web|url=https://throughthetwistedwoods.wordpress.com/2017/09/14/a-deaf-cinderella/|title=A Deaf Cinderella|last=dereknewmanstille|date=2017-09-14|website=Through The Twisted Woods|language=en|access-date=2019-08-10}} Some characters are "mute" and other have speech lessons.

|?

|Deaf culture / ASL Fairy tales

|2007

|Marlee Matlin

|The central character, Megan (nine), is Deaf ASL user and she attends a mainstream school and has a Sign language interpreter with her at School. Lizzie (9), her best friend from camp, transfers to her School and is a main character. She is Deaf and an ASL user too.

|8–12 yrs

|Friendship / sign language

|2007

|Delia Ray

|The central character, Gussie (12), is one of three hearing children born to a Deaf Couple CODA. Her father, Reverend Davis is Deaf as is her mother. They are both ASL users. In the story, she takes part in a trip with Alabama School for the Deaf. As the book is set in the Deaf community there are several other Deaf characters including Abe a Black Deaf child who attends Alabama School for the Deaf. The book is partially based on the author's mother's CODA experience. This book was a Book Sense Summer 2006 Children's Pick, A 2007 Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies, Named to the 2007 Bank Street Best Children's Books of the Year List

and a Kansas’ William Allen White Award Nominee, 2008–09.

|10–14 yrs

|Set in America in the 1940s / Racism

|2006

|Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf

|This compilation of five short stories was written by Deaf young people and Deaf young adults who won the Ladder Awards competition. This collection of five short stories feature a range of Deaf characters. including a young princess Lyla who would one day be queen, and how she runs away from her Aunt Belle, who refuses to learn sign language. In another story, a Deaf child is teased in her mainstream school for being Deaf until she moves to the Newfoundland School for the Deaf. The group of Deaf and hearing astronauts end up on a planet where hearing people have special needs.

|7-9 yrs

|

|2005

(Keystone Stables #4)

|Marsha Hulber

|One of the main characters, Jonathan,is Deaf and uses ASL to communicate. The book is set on an American special needs Summer camp and one of the other main characters lives in foster care and has completed a crash course in ASL so can communicate with Jonathon. This book contains a Christian message. This book was reprinted in 2009 under the new title Summer Camp Adventures.

|9–12 yrs

|Foster care, Horse care,

Animal Lovers

|2005 (reprinted in 2009)

|Leslie Garrett, Annie Tremmel Wilcox

|This book is a biography of Helen Keller, who became Deaf-Blind at 19 months old after an illness. She initially was taught through a manual alphabet and then learned to speak and 'read lip' through touching the speaker's lips. She was also proficient in braille.

|10–14 yrs

|Biography America 1980s onwards

|2004

|Marlee Matlin

|The main character, Megan (10), is Deaf and uses ASL and "voice that sounded different to others" to communicate. One of her friends learns some ASL.

|8–12 yrs

|Friendship

|2004

|Gare Thompson, Nancy Harrison

|This is a biography of Helen Keller. Part of a #1 New York Times bestselling series.

|8–12 yrs

|Biography America 1980s onwards

|2003

|Marissa Moss

|One of the main characters, Enzo, is Deaf and uses ASL to communicate. He doesn't hear the main character when she calls to him, but he later teaches her ASL. Journal style Book, it contains plenty of doodle style pictures. Printed by American Girl.

|9–12 yrs

|Friendship

|2002

|Emma Haughton

|This book factual approaches deafness through looking at the lives of a group of deaf children and one deaf adult; it discusses BSL different levels of hearing loss, technology and its limitations and touches on BSL, though deaf culture isn't really discussed fully.

|10–12 yrs

|Deaf children

|2002

|Jean F. Andrews

|One of the two main characters is a boy called Matt who is Deaf and uses ASL to communicate.

|8–12 yrs

|Friendship & Detective group

|2001

|Heather Hammonds

|The central character, Nick, has hearing aids and uses speech and lip-reading to communicate. His hearing aid tunes into a boat in distress.

|5-9 yrs

|Rescues

|2001

|Shron Kirsh

|This collection of four short stories by young Deaf authors and illustrators includes Deaf character in each story and references to sign language. The contributors have all won the ladder awards. A project of Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf

|7–11 yrs

|Short stories

|2000

(Animal Ark Pets #12)

|Ben M. Baglio (pseudonym Lucy Daniels)

|One of the main characters, Joey, is deaf and isn't allowed much dependence by his mother so some children train a stray dog to be a hearing dog so they can keep him. The books originally were published in England, under the pseudonym Lucy Daniels in 1988.)

|6–8 yrs

|Animal lovers

|2000

(Nick's Mission #2)

|Claire H. Blatchford

|The central character, Nick (14), became Deaf aged six after having meningitis and communicates using lip-reading and speech. He has regular speech therapy sessions and attends a mainstream school.{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/blatchford-claire-h-1944|title=Blatchford, Claire H. 1944- {{!}} Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com|access-date=2020-01-13}}

|9–12 yrs

|Children's Mystery series

|2000

|Frances O'Roark Dowell

|One of the main characters, Amos (13), is deaf and uses ASL to communicate with the dogs. He goes on to become a sign language teacher as an adult. The main character is accused of murder. This book won the William Allen White Children's Book Award (2013) and Edgar Award, Best Children's (2001).

|10–12 yrs

|Historical Mystery set in the 1920s America

|2000

|Lynn E. McElfresh

|One of the main characters, Stephanie, is DeafBlind. The book is told from her younger brother's (13) perspective and his mixed feelings about his older DeafBlind sister. She uses touch and tactile signed manual alphabet to communicate.

|9–14 years

|Accepting a family member

|1999

(The Wolves Chronicles #5)

|Joan Aiken MBE

|The Islands King is Deaf. This book is also published in the UK under the title Limbo Lodge.

|12–15 yrs

|Fantasy historical fiction

|1999

|Claire Blatchford

|The central character, Mark (11), is the only deaf child in his mainstream school. He became deaf after having meningitis aged three, he wears hearing aids and has an ASL interpreter in class with him.

|8–10 yrs

|Friendship, anger and loneliness

|1998

|Barbara Luetke-Stahlman

|Two of the main characters are Deaf sisters. Based on a true story and written by Hannah's mother.

|11 yrs

|Deaf siblings

|1996

|Theodore Taylor

|One of the main characters, Chok-do wo, is adopted and is from Korea. He is referred to as "deaf-mute". The dog Tuck is blind.

|9+ yrs

|Adoption Friendship

|1996

|John Neufield

|The central character, Merry (12), is Deaf and uses sign language to communicate. This book is set in Chilmark Martha's Vineyard in the 1880s, where at least a fifth of the population had hereditary deafness so sign language was widely used by Deaf and hearing people across island life. So the book contains a range of characters who sign, some Deaf, some hearing.

|10–14 yrs

|Murder mystery

|1996

|Angela Elwell Hunt

|The book lightly touches on the history of slave trading and is set on a transatlantic boat filled with children soon to be sold into slavery. One of the characters is a deaf girl who tries to save a baby whale. This book also has a religious theme: a Jewish boy accepts Christ and becomes a Christian.

|10–13 yrs

|Historical fiction set in 1627

|1996

|Nancy Butts

|The central character, Miranda (13), is Deaf and uses ASL, lipreading and speech to communicate. Her parents insist that she speaks instead of signing.

|10+ yrs

|Fantasy

|1996

Profiles of Deaf Americans

|Ron Podmore

|This book is the biographies of five Deaf Americans including Marlee Matlin and the first Deaf president of Gallaudet University, I. King Jordan.

|8+ yrs

|Biography

|1995

A Worldwide Perspective

|Jack Olson

|This books explorers Deaf experiences in different countries.

|11–13 yrs

|Deaf culture

|1995

|Lucille Kraiman

|The central character, Jordan, is moved from a School for the Deaf, where sign language is used, to a mainstream school where a deaf student cannot sign and must use speech to communicate.

|8–18 yrs

|Friendship

|1995

(Nick's Mission #1)

|Claire H. Blatchford

|The central character, Nick (13), became Deaf aged six after having meningitis and communicates using lip-reading and speech. He has regular speech therapy sessions and attends a mainstream school.

|9–12 yrs

|Children's mystery series

|1994

|Jean F. Andrews

|One of the two main characters is a boy called Matt who is Deaf and uses ASL to communicate.

|9–12 yrs

|Friendship & detective group

|1993

|Cathryn Carroll, Harlan L. Lane

|This fictionalised autobiography of Laurent Cleric covers his early life as a Deaf student in France and then how he came to co-found the first School for the Deaf in North America and develop new teaching methods including the use of ASL. Published by Gallaudet University Press.

|

|American Deaf History

|1991, reprinted in 2002

(Flying Fingers Club Book 3/5)

|Jean F. Andrews

|One of the two main characters is Matt, who is Deaf and uses ASL to communicate. Printed by Gallaudet University Press.

|8–12 yrs

|Friendship & detective group

|1991

|Jean F. Andrews

|One of the two main characters is Matt, who is Deaf and uses ASL to communicate. This book is set in Matt's residential Deaf school and includes other Deaf characters. Printed by Gallaudet University Press.

|9–12 yrs

|Friendship & detective group

|1990

(The Baby-Sitters Club #16)

|Ann M. Martin

|One of the main characters Matt (a young child) was born Deaf; he uses ASL to communicate. He teaches ASL to his babysitter and other interested children ASL.

|8–12 yrs

|Friendships

|1988

|Jean F. Andrews

|One of the main characters, Matt, is Deaf and uses ASL to communicate. He teaches the central character Donald, who has a learning disability, to sign in ASL. Gallaudet University Press.

|9–12 yrs

|Friendship & detective group

|1988

|Claire Blatchford

|The central character, Margret (12), is deaf and she is sure that no-one understands what it's like to be deaf apart from the dog.

|9–12 yrs

|Isolation & Animals

|1983

|Christina Bridges

|One of the two main characters, Jacob, is Deaf. His ability to read lips makes him the 'hero' of the story.

|7–12 yrs

|Friendship & detective story

|1982

|Troy Howell, Mary Riskind

|The central character, Harry (10), is Deaf and is sent the residential Mr Bertie's School for the Deaf, in Philadelphia. His family are Deaf and sign ASL discreetly in public. His family live on an Apple farm so his Sign name is Apple. The book is set at the residential Deaf School where he meets other Deaf children including Landis whose parents encourage him to speak and lipread.{{Cite book|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/mary-riskind/apple-is-my-sign/|title=APPLE IS MY SIGN by Mary Riskind {{!}} Kirkus Reviews|language=en}}

|10–12 yrs

|Set in 1899, Adventure

|1981

republished in 1993

|Edith Fisher Hunter, Bea Holmes

|This book is based on the true story of Laura Bridgman who became deaf-blind and lost her sense of smell/taste aged two after an illness (possibly scarlet fever). She could read Braille and used tactile sign language to communicate. She spent most of her school and adult life at the Perkins Institution for the Blind. She was born 50 years before Helen Keller.

|9–12 yrs

|A slightly fictionalised account of Laura Bridgman's life, 1829–1889

|1963, reprinted in 1971

|+33YA books with deaf characters

!Title

!Author

!Deaf Characters / Awards Won

!Target Age

!Gerne

!Year First Published

|Sean Williams,

|The central character, Simon (18), becomes Profoundly Deaf after a stroke aged 18. Initially he communicates through text messages and written messages and is reluctant to learn Auslan. Another main character, "G", also known as George, has recently become deaf and she also has tinnitus.

|14+ yrs

|YA Relationships And Music

|2019

|Kacen Callender

|One of the main characters, Ollie (16), is deaf and in a Gay relationship. He uses ASL or written English to communicate. He is surrounded by hearing characters who use some ASL to communicate with him. This book was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult (2019).

|14–18 yrs

|YA Romance / LGBTQ

|2018

|Maggie Stiefvater

|One of the main characters, Adam, is deaf in his left ear.

|13+ yrs

|YA Fantasy

|2018

|Tristina Wright

|One of the main characters, Nyx, is deaf and uses ASL to communicate. He has Cuban ancestry and is pansexual.

|

|YA Science Fiction

|2017

|Danielle Binks, Amie Kaufman, Melissa Keil, Will Kostakis, Ellie Marney, Jaclyn Moriarty, Michael Pryor, Alice Pung, Gabrielle Tozer, Lili Wilkinson

|This collection of short stories includes Last Night at the Mount Solemn Observatory by Danielle Binks, which has a deaf character called King (18) who uses Auslan to communicate. This Anthology won the Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for Older Children Age 13+ (2018.) Teacher notes are available.{{Cite web|url=https://hcau-assets.supadu.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/04060736/Begin-End-Begin-Teachers-Notes.pdf|title=Teacher notes for Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}

|14+ yrs

|

|2017

|Marc Heyez{{Cite web|url=http://marcheyez.weebly.com/bio-and-contact.html|title=Bio and contact|website=Marc Heyez|language=en|access-date=2020-01-18}}

|The central character, Egg (17), is a teenage deaf boy "living in a hearing society" who uses lip-reading, hearing aids and speech to communicate. He has speech lessons in the book.

|14–18 yrs

|Set in 1983 Canada

Comedy / Fiction

|2017

|Whitney Gardner

|The central character, Julia, is Deaf and has two Deaf mothers, is of Indian descent and uses ASL, lip-reading and written English to communicate. She first attends Kingston School for the Deaf and then attends a mainstream school.{{cite web|url=http://disabilityinkidlit.com/2017/03/03/interview-with-whitney-gardner-about-youre-welcome-universe/|title=Interview with Whitney Gardner about You're Welcome, Universe|date=3 March 2017 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-05}} Her friend, Jordyn, is also deaf, has a cochlear implant and uses both her voice and ASL to communicate. Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award for teenagers in 2018. and Official Selection, Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year and Official selection, Tayshas Reading List.

|14+ yrs

|YA Realistic Fiction / Art

|2017

|Cecil Paterson

|The central character, Jazmine (14), starts by wearing hearing aids but stops wearing them and develops friendships with Deaf Auslan users.{{cite web|url=http://pajka.blogspot.com/2017/07/new-book-out-this-week-being-jazmine-by.html|title=Deaf Characters in Adolescent Literature: New Book Out This Week: _Being Jazmine_ by Cecily Anne Paterson|last=Pajka,ph.d|first=Sharon|date=2017-07-10|website=Deaf Characters in Adolescent Literature|access-date=2019-08-16}} She attends deaf camp where she makes friends with many Deaf Auslan users.

|13-16 yrs

|YA Friendships And Deaf Identity

|2017

|Sara Barnard

|One of the two main characters, Rhys, is Deaf and uses BSL to communicate. The other main character Steffi has been a selective mute for much of her life and the characters use BSL to communicate with each other.

|

|Romance / Mental Health

|2017

|Olivia Rivers

|The main character, Ali Collins, is 17 and became Deaf at the age of 10 following a brain tumour. She uses lip-reading, speech and ASL to communicate.

|

|YA Romance, Music

|2016

(A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel #5)

|Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris, Philippa Ballantine

|One of the characters is deaf and uses sign language. They are an active operative of the Ministry.

|

|Science Fiction, Steampunk

|2016

(The Raven Cycle #4)

|Maggie Stiefvater

|One of the main characters, Adam, is deaf in his left ear. This book was a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2017) and Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2016).

|

|YA Fantasy

|2016

|Kathryn Lomer

|One of the two main characters, Summer (16), has been deaf since birth and uses Auslan and written English to communicate. In the story, one of the other main characters learns Auslan.

|

|YA Romance & Family

|2015

|Nick Lake

|One of the main characters, Shelby (17), is profoundly deaf and uses lip-reading and ASL to communicate.

|

|YA Mystery / Fantasy

|2015

|Laura Lee Anderson

|One of the two central characters is Carter, who is Profoundly Deaf and was adopted by a family which are part of the New York Deaf community. His father is Deaf, his mother a housewife and an ASL interpreter and his sister (nine) has a cochlear implant which works well. Carter has had unsuccessful cochlear implant surgery and uses ASL to communicate. He often feels left out of the conversation when with hearing people. One of the main characters learns ASL in the book.{{Cite web|url=http://www.shelfishlyaddicted.com/single-post/2015/07/05/Review-Song-of-Summer-by-Laura-Lee-Anderson|title=Review: Song of Summer by Laura Lee Anderson|website=shelfishly-addicted|date=5 July 2015 |language=en|access-date=2020-01-18}}

|12+ yrs

|YA Music / Romance

|2015

|Deborah Lytton

|One of the two main characters, Stella (15), becomes deaf after a head injury which takes place during the book. She uses speech to communicate and gets a cochlear implant. The other main character Hayden has a stutter. Described as a Clean Romance Book. Both the main characters have "damaged childhoods".

|12+ yrs

|YA Romance

|2015

|Kimberley A. Shaw

|The central character, Caitlin, is deaf and uses speech and lip-reading to communicate. She goes to the school for witches, and there are attempts to assist her hearing using magi—the effect is similar to wearing hearing aids and does not cure or completely restore her hearing, as she still has many misunderstandings.

|

|YA Fantasy

|2014

(Flying #2)

|Elyse Salpeter

|One of the two main characters, Danny (13), is Deaf and uses ASL to communicate combined with some lip-reading and speech.

|

|YA Action / Thriller / Afterlife

|2014

|Esty Schachter

|One of the main characters, Ian (17) is Deaf and uses lip-reading and ASL to communicate. He attends Hawthorne School for the Deaf. The central character is his hearing sister and she is a fluent ASL signer. The book explores the relationships within families when one member is Deaf.

|12+ yrs

|YA Fiction Deaf culture

|2014

|Maggie Stiefvater

|One of the main characters, Adam (17-18), is deaf in his left ear. Adam is bisexual. This book has been nominated for these awards, Locus Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Novel (2015), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2017), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2014).

|14+ yrs

|YA Fantasy / Paranormal / LGBTQ

|2014

|Cecil Paterson

|The central character Jazmine aged 12, sometimes wears a hearing aid and uses lip-reading and speech to communicate. This book was a semi-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough novel award in 2014.

|10-17 yrs

|YA Romance

|2014

|Cecil Paterson

|The central character, Jazmine (13), sometimes wears a hearing aid and uses lip-reading and speech to communicate.

|9-16 yrs

|YA

|2014

|Kevin Hoffman

|The central character, Urus, was born Deaf and uses sign language to communicate. The book started with him attempting to commit suicide; he later becomes the hero of the story with his magical powers, which develop as a result of his suicide attempt.

|

|YA Fantasy

|2014

(The Raven Cycle #2)

|Maggie Stiefvater

|One of the main characters, Adam, is Deaf in his left ear and is in a homosexual relationship. This book has been nominated for several awards including the Locus Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Novel (2014), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2017), Milwaukee County Teen Book Award Nominee (2015), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2013).

|

|YA Fantasy

|2013

|Phillip Tomasso III

|The central character, Marco, becomes deaf aged 12 after being ill with meningitis. He attends a residential Deaf School while learning ASL.

|

|YA Fiction

|2013

|J. S. Wilsoncroft

|The central character, Calista (16), is deaf and starts the book by leaving the school for the Deaf she attends to go to a mainstream school. She uses ASL to communicates and so does the Ghost in the story.

|

|YA Ghost

|2013

(Wilde Island Chronicles #2)

|Janet Lee Carey

|The central character, Tess (17), is deaf in one ear which is swollen and cauliflower-shaped as a consequence of repeatedly being beaten by her father. The book is set in the Middle Ages.

|

|YA Fantasy

|2012

|Michael Thal

|The central character, David (12), is a violist and suddenly becomes profoundly deaf. In the story, he learns ASL and lip-reading.

|8+ yrs

|YA Music

|2012

(The Raven Cycle #1)

|Maggie Stiefvater

|One of the main characters, Adam, is Deaf in his left ear. This book has been nominated for several awards including Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Novel (2012), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2017), Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2015), Milwaukee County Teen Book Award Nominee (2014), The Inky Awards for Silver Inky (2013).

|

|YA Fantasy

|2012

|Hannah Moskowitz

|One of the main characters, Gideon, was born deaf and uses a form of sign language to communicate.

|

|YA Romance

|2011

|Chrisse Keighery

|The central character, Demi (16), became profoundly deaf when she had meningitis aged 14. She uses lip-reading, speech and Auslan to communicate. She attends a college for the Deaf and has a Deaf friend called Stella who uses Auslan to communicate and is proud to be Deaf.

|

|YA Romance

|2011

|Brian Selznick

|Both the main characters are Deaf: Ben was born deaf in his left ear then becomes profoundly deaf after being hit by lightning. He uses speech and written English to communicate. Rose is born Deaf and communicates using ASL and some lipreading and speech.{{cite web|url=http://disabilityinkidlit.com/2016/12/02/review-wonderstruck-by-brian-selznick/|title=Review: Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick|date=2 December 2016 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-05}} The story is told in pictures when telling Rose's story. This book won the Schneider Family Book Award - Middle School Winner 2012. It was made into a film in 2017 called Wonderstruck.

|

|YA Fiction

|2011

|Antony John

|This book's main character is Piper who is Deaf and uses ASL to communicate. The family has a hereditary deafness and her new baby sister is born deaf and has a cochlear implant fitted.{{cite web|url=http://disabilityinkidlit.com/2014/11/07/andrea-shettle-reviews-five-flavors-of-dumb/|title=Review: Five Flavors of Dumb by Anthony John|date=7 November 2014 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-05}} Winner of a 2011 Schneider Family Book Award.{{cite web|url=http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2011/01/2011-schneider-family-book-awards-recipients-named|title=2011 Schneider Family Book Awards recipients named|last=Anonymous|date=2011-01-10|website=News and Press Center|language=en|access-date=2019-08-13}}

|12+ yrs

|YA Romance

/ Music

|2010

|Kathrin Schrockle

|One of the two main characters, Leah, is deaf from birth and uses speech, lipreading and sign language to communicate. This book has been translated from German by Tammi Reichel and in 2019 a film based on the book was to be launched entitled Freak City.

|

|YA Romance

|2010 Reprinted in 2014

|Josh Berk

|The central character, Will, transfers from a Deaf School to a mainstream school and uses lip-reading and sign language to communicate.

|

|YA Fiction

|2010

|Ann Clare Lezotte

|The central character, Paula (13), is Deaf from an early age and used gestures to communicate before learning sign language in the book. The T4 program aimed to sterilize and/or kill thousands of Jews with disabilities.

|12+ yrs

|Set in Nazis Germany

|2008

|Teri Brown

|The central character, Serena, is deaf and wears hearing aids and uses lip-reading and speech to communicate. Reading lips sometimes causes some confusion.

|

|YA Romance

|2008

|Emily Franklin

|The central character is taught ASL by Linus who is a hearing child of Deaf parents or a CODA.

|12+ yrs

|YA Romance

|2008

|Meg Burden

|The Deaf character Finn has a more prominent role in this book. He uses sign language to communicate with his family and also occasionally uses lip reading and telepathy as many of the other characters in the book are also telepathic.

|11–15 years

|YA Fantasy

|2008

|Geraldine McCaughrean

|The central character, Sym (14), is deaf, she wears hearing aids and uses speech and lip-reading to communicate. This book was a Michael L. Printz award winner (2008) and Whitbread Children's Book Award (2005).

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|YA Adventure

|2008

(Tales of the Borderlands #1)

|Meg Burden

|One of the characters is called Finn. He is Deaf and uses Sign Language to communicate with his family and occasionally uses lip reading and telepathy as many of the other characters in the book are also telepathic. This book was awarded Book of the Year, YA Fiction by ForeWord Magazine and International Reading Association Notable Book.

|12+ yrs

|YA Fantasy

|2007

|Ginny Rorby

|The central character, Joey (13), became deaf when she was six years old following abuse and wears hearing aids and uses speech and lip-reading (with limited success) to communicate. Her mother doesn't let her learn to sign but in the story she learns ASL.{{cite web|url=http://disabilityinkidlit.com/2016/02/19/review-hurt-go-happy-by-ginny-rorby/|title=Review: Hurt Go Happy by Ginny Rorby|date=19 February 2016 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-05}} This book has won the Schneider Family Book Award for Teen Book (2008) and was a Missouri Truman Readers Award Nominee (2009.)

|12+ yrs

|YA Realistic Fiction/ Animal testing, rights

|2006

|Paul Kercal

|One of the main characters, Charlotte, is deaf, she attends a mainstream school.

|12-16 yrs

|YA Christian novel, teenage pregnancy, depression and self harm

|2006

|Paul Kercal

|One of the main characters, Charlotte, is deaf and attends a mainstream school.

|12-16 yrs

|YA Christian novel, bullying

|2004

|Sherryl Jordan

|This book is set in medieval times. One of the main characters, Raven, is deaf. He is frequently misunderstood but does develop a signed/gestural communication system with one of the other characters.

|12–14 yrs

|YA Historical Romantic Fiction

|2004

|Jean Ferris

|The central character, Theo, is a CODA and is bilingual in English and ASL. He is the only hearing person in his family and his brother and his parents are Deaf and communicate using ASL. There is another CODA in the book called Ivy.

|12-17 yrs

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|2004

|Jana Novotny Hunter

|The central character, Cat (teenager), became Profoundly deaf after having meningitis when she was five. In the story, she had learnt to speak before she lost her hearing but as she now lives in a residential Deaf school she no longer uses her voice. The students at the Deaf School are divided—some use spoken English to communicate, others use sign language. Cat's best friend is a Deaf sign language user. There is also another main character Joey who has transferred from another school and uses a total communication approach (speech and sign similarly). In the book, there is a school debate on speaking vs. signing vs. total communication. The writer has two profoundly deaf siblings were and hearing parents.

|12–14 yrs

|Romance

|2002

|Virginia M. Scott

|One of the main characters, Abby, becomes deaf aged 14 after meningitis and dies aged 16. The book explores Abby's feeling about becoming deaf.

|13+ yrs

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|2000

|Virginia M. Scott

|The central character, Beth (15), became deaf and has balance difficulties after a childhood illness.

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|YA Family Relationships

|1997

|Jennifer Armstrong

|The central character falls in love with Henry, left deaf by the war after exposure to loud explosions. He communicates by writing notes and she describes sounds to him.

|11+ yrs

|Historical fiction, set in America

|1997

|Eve Bunting

|The central character's brother, Bry (16), is deaf and uses lip-reading and sign language to communicate. He is killed in the presence of the main character by a hit-and-run driver. He could not hear the car coming from behind. This book has won the California Young Readers Medal for Young Adult (1992) and Oklahoma Sequoyah Award for YA (1991).

|12+ yrs

|Murder mystery / Alcoholism

|1988 reprinted in 2007

|Madelyn Arnold

|One of the main characters is Anna, who is a Deaf widow admitted to a mental hospital in the 1960s for depression. She is 'not allowed' to sign by the authorities but does teach the central character to sign. This book won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction (1988).

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|LGBQ / Mental Health

|1988, reprinted in 2000

|Virginia M. Scott

|The main character, Gustie, is 15 when she becomes deaf in her right ear after having meningitis. The book is about her adjusting to her new circumstances. Gustie uses a hearing aid and lip reading to communicate and then learns to fingerspell. She has a boyfriend and meets his brother and sister-in-law who are both Deaf. She returns to her mainstream school where her friends are unkind. She has a notetaker at School. Published by Gallaudet University Press.

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|YA Romance / Friendships

|1986

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!Author

!Deaf Characters / Awards Won

!Target Age

!Gerne

!Year 1st Published

|Magdalena Newman

|This book is the autobiography of the mother of a teenage son with severe Treacher Collins syndrome, a craniofacial condition which affects his ability to breathe, hear or eat. In the book he has 67 surgeries and wears BAHA hearing aids.

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|Autobiography

|2020

|Will Dean

|The central character, Tuva, became deaf after having meningitis as a child and as an adult she wears hearing aids and uses lip-reading and speech to communicate.

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|Crime thriller

|2018

|Laura Brown

|Both the main characters, which are in a romantic relationship, are deaf.

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|Romance

|2017

|Kristin Bartzokis

|This book is the autobiography of a lady with Treacher Collins syndrome, a craniofacial condition which can also cause hearing loss. She wears a BAHA hearing aid and uses speech to communicate. In the book she has some awful medical experiences following surgery.

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|Autobiography

|2017

|Justine Elvira

|A small character, a child, is Deaf and uses ASL to communicate.

|18+ yrs

|Erotic Fiction

|2017

|Lance Morcan, James Morcan

|This book is set in a fictional University for the Deaf—most of the characters are Deaf or can use BSL to communicate.

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|Horror

|2017

|Emma Viskic

|The central character, Caleb, is Profoundly Deaf since a young child and uses lip-reading and Auslan to communicate. There are other characters who use sign language.

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|Australian Crime / Mystery

|2017

|Michael Uniacke

|This second book in the autobiography of Michael Uniacke tells how, as an adult, he explores his deaf identity and joins a deaf community of non-signers.{{cite web|url=http://www.wordgathering.com/issue38/reviews/uniacke1.html|title=Book Review: Deafness Gain (Michael Uniacke)|website=www.wordgathering.com|access-date=2019-08-23}}

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|Autobiography

|2016

|Bernadette T Wallis

|This book is based on the true story of a deaf family in Victoria, Australia and focuses on the Australian-Irish Sign language that was used by the Catholic Deaf Community but is no longer taught in Schools.

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|Australian Deaf History

|2016

|Laura Brown

|The main character, Carli, has hearing aids and uses speech to communicate and learns ASL. Another character Reed is also deaf.{{cite web|url=https://literarytreats.com/2017/06/24/5-books-with-deaf-characters-or-about-deaf-history/|title=5 Must-Read Books with Deaf Characters|last=Jaclyn|date=2017-06-24|website=Literary Treats|language=en|access-date=2019-08-13}} They meet while studying at university.

|18-25 yrs

|New Adult / Romance

|2016

(3:AM Kisses #5)

|Addison Moore

|The central character, Annie (19), was born Profoundly Deaf and uses lip-reading and ASL to communicate. In the book, her mother encourages her to get a cochlear implant which she does and then rapidly develops very clear speech. Annie previously attended a school for the hearing impaired and is starting at Whitney Briggs University where she has an ASL interpreter in class.

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|New Adult / Erotic Romance

|2015

(Caleb Zelic #1)

|Emma Viskic

|The central character, Caleb (in his 30s), is a deaf private detective. He became deaf aged five after having meningitis and uses lip-reading with strangers and Auslan to communicate with his deaf friends. The book describes times when he can't follow what is being said and reminds others to move to ensure their face is well lit. This book has won several awards: the 2016 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction, Davitt Awards for Best Novel, Best Debut and Reader's Choice, iBooks Australia's Crime Novel of the Year and was shortlisted for the UK Gold Dagger and New Blood Awards. Nominated for Barry Award for Best paperback.

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|Australian Crime Thriller

|2015

|Mark Worthing

|This book is a biography of Graeme Clark, the man who invented cochlear implants. There deaf people in the book include his father who had hearing loss.

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|Biography

|2015

|Anna Martin

|The central character, Caleb (18), wears hearing aids, has social anxiety and doesn't feel part of the Deaf community. He uses a shorthand form of ASL to communicate at home with his parents. In the story, he's in a Gay relationship and the book includes explicit sex scenes.{{cite web|url=https://scatteredthoughtsandroguewords.com/tag/signs-by-anna-martin/|title=Signs by Anna Martin|website=Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words|date=25 March 2015 |language=en|access-date=2019-09-09}} He previously went to a special school but is now in a mainstream school.

|18+ yrs

|New Adult, Erotic, LGBTQ Romance

|2015

|Rebecca A. Alexander, Sascha Alper

|This autobiography is written by Rebecca Alexander. She has Usher syndrome type III which has caused her to have progressive hearing and sight loss from childhood.

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|Autobiography

|2015

|Alan Balter

|The book starts with Willa and Robert, a couple deaf from birth who are culturally Deaf, and have a child called Seth. Seth goes to Gallaudet University and has a Deaf boyfriend called Jacob. The Deaf characters and Seth use ASL to communicate.

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|Deaf culture, LGBTQ+

|2015

|Michael Uniacke, Rachel Burt

|This autobiography tells the story of Michael Uniacke's (6+) childhood, while deaf in a Catholic mainstream school.{{cite web|url=http://www.wordgathering.com/past_issues/issue34/reviews/uniacke.html|title=Book Review — Deafness Down (Michael Uniacke)|website=www.wordgathering.com|access-date=2019-08-23}} He also has three deaf siblings and one hearing sister.

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|Autobiography 1960s Australia

|2015

(Maybe #1)

|Colleen Hoov

|One of the main characters, Ridge (24), is Deaf and uses ASL to communicate.

|

|New Adult Romance

|2014

|Kimberly Elkins

|This book is based on the true story of Laura Bridgman who became deaf-blind and lost her sense of smell/taste aged two after an illness (possibly scarlet fever). She could read Braille and used tactile sign language to communicate. She spent most of her school and adult life at the Perkins Institution for the Blind. She was born 50 years before Helen Keller. The book includes her periods of unhappiness, self-harm and anorexia. This book has won the David J. Langum Sr. Prize for American Historical Fiction (2014).

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|Historical Biography set in America 1829–1889

|2014

|Brandi Rarus, Gail Harris

|This is the true story of a Deaf couple: Brandi was raised orally after becoming Deaf aged six and then later joined the Deaf community and her husband Tim was from a Deaf multigenerational family which used ASL to communicate. They had three hearing sons before they adopted Zoe, a baby with progressive hearing loss.

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|Deaf Culture/ Adoption / Autobiography

|2014

|Donna McDonald

|In this autobiography, Donna tells how she went to an oral deaf school aged five then onto mainstream schools where she used lip-reading and speech to communicate and then spent her adult life in the 'hearing world'. This book is published by the Gallaudet University Press.

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|Autobiography

|2014

(The Reed Brothers #2)

|Tammy Falkner

|One of the two main characters, Logan, became deaf after a childhood illness and uses speech to communicate.

|18+

|Romance

|2013

|Gerald Shea

|This autobiography is by Gerald Shea who became deaf after an illness aged six, His hearing status was discovered when he went to a mandatory hearing test for a new job aged 34. He now wears hearing aids and uses lip-reading and speech to communicate.

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|Autobiography

|2013

(The Reed Brothers #1)

|Tammy Falkner

|One of the two main characters, Logan, became deaf after a childhood illness and initially chooses not to talk but later uses speech to communicate.

|18 +

|Romance

|2013

|Monique E. Hammond

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|2012

|Arlene Romoff

|The author started to become deaf in her teenage years and much later had bilateral cochlear implant surgery.

|

|Autobiography

|2011

|Ashley Fiolek, Caroline Ryder

|This book is an autobiography of Ashley Fiolek's life and career. She was born Deaf and uses ASL to communicate.

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|2011

|Madan Vasishta

|This autobiography by Madan tells how he became deaf aged 11 and later went on to learn Indian Sign Language and ASL and become an associate professor at Gallaudet University.

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|Autobiography

|2011

(Flying #1)

|Elyse Salpeter

|One of the two main characters, Danny (six), is Deaf and uses ASL to communicate, combined with some lip-reading and speech.

|

|Fantasy / Thriller

|2011

|Julie Postance

|Nine true stories: five parents of deaf children and four children from deaf adults and the variety of paths they took in life. The stories include different communication choices including speech, Auslan and bilingual upbringings.

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|Biographies

|2009

(St. Nacho's #1)

|Z. A. Maxfield

|One of this book's two main characters is deaf. Shawn is part of a Deaf theatre group as is Kevin, also Deaf. Shawn is also Gay and uses lip-reading, written English and ASL to communicate. This book is very sexually explicit.

|18 +

|LGBTQ / Romance

|2008

|Clint Kelly

|One of the main characters, Cody (13), is deaf, wears hearing aids and uses speech to communicate.

|18 yrs

|

|2007

|Maeve Binchy

|Melanie is the Deaf Character in the story and she appears towards the end of the book. She is Profoundly deaf, attended an all-girl deaf school as a child and communicates in sign language and speech and later enrols in a training program to teach deaf children.

|

|Irish Family Saga / Romance

|2007

|Harry G. Lang

|This biography is about Robert who became deaf aged 10 after having meningitis. He used ASL to communicate.

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|Biography

|2007

|Paul Jacobs

|This is a biography of Jason who became deaf aged five and uses speech and lip-reading to communicate. He attends university and plays in the Deaf Australian World Cup cricket team but never learns to sign. Published by the Gallaudet University Press.

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|Biography, Australia

|2007

|Frances Itani

|The main character in this book, Grania O'Neill, becomes Deaf after having Scarlet fever aged five. She initially lives at home, then attends Ontario School for the Deaf where she learns sign language and speech. This book won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in Caribbean and Canada (2004). This book starts in Canada but follows characters to the United States, England, Belgium and France.

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|Set in WW1 (1915–19) Canada

|2007

|Rachel Brown

|The main character, Rachel, has a master's degree in Deaf Education and is an "elementary school hearing-impaired teacher," her role includes ASL interpreting for deaf and hard of hearing students across the school. Her students and her relationship with them are included in the book.

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|Romance, Husband in US Army goes to Iraq

|2006

|C. F. Brunner

| The book focuses on a couple's relationship dynamics, as deaf/hearing, of which the author has first-hand experience One of the two main characters is Dan who has been profoundly deaf since he was a toddler and uses speech, lip-reading and sign language to communicate.

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|Love story, relationship conflict

|2006

|V. C. Andrews

|The central character comes to life with Echo (14), who is deaf and uses ASL to communicate, and her elderly grandmother.

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|Horror / Family saga

|2006

|Madan Vasishta

|This autobiography tells the story of Madan's life, how he went deaf at 11 after being ill with typhoid fever and the mumps. He started life in India and at aged 20, learnt Indian Sign Language and later gained a Degree from Gallaudet college where he learnt ASL.

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|Autobiography

|2006

|Blair LaCrosse, Michelle LaCrosse

|The main character, Christopher, was born into a hearing family and the book follows his journey navigating the Deaf and hearing worlds.

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|Deaf culture and identity

|2003

|Arlene Romoff

|The author's experience of having a cochlear implant.

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|Autobiography

|2002

|Darryl Brock

|The central character in this book is Luther "Dummy" Taylor who was born deaf and used ASL to communicate. He was a successful baseball pitcher in the early 1900s. This semi-fictional account of his life includes a trip to Cuba where he meets children from the deaf School, La Escuela delOrejas, and specifically forms a friendship with another deaf character called Luis (19) who also uses ASL to communicate. The book is set in 1911 America. Later in the book he teaches and coaches at the Illinois School for the Deaf and shortly before his death is honored by Kansas School for the Deaf which he attended as a child. The book was awarded the Dave Moore Award in 2000.

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|Baseball Historical Fiction

|2000

|T. C. Boyle

|Dana, now in her 30s, became deaf aged four after an infection. She is now a fiercely independent strong woman who is an English teacher at a school for the deaf in San Roque. Her voice gives away that she is deaf and she also uses ASL to communicate. This book won the California Book Award for Fiction (Silver) (2006).

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|Suspense & Thriller / Crime

|2000

|David Myres

|The author's experience of hearing loss later in life.

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|Biography

|2000

Stories about Successful Deaf People, Book 2

|Darlene Toole

|Biographies of Danny Delcambre, Kathy Buckley, Ken Glickman, Bethany "Buffy" Hummel, Dr.Robert Davila and Laurene Gallimore.

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|Biography

|1998

Significant Contributions of Deaf Women and Men

|Anita Davis, Katharine Preston

|Twenty Deaf people who have made significant contributions to their field of specialism.

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|1998

|V. C. Andrews

|The main character moves in with May (10) who is deaf and uses ASL to communicate with her family.

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|Family saga / Horror

|1996

Stories about Successful Deaf People, Book 1

|Darlene Toole

|Biographies of six Deaf people, Evelyn Glennie, Howie Seago, Dr. Shirley Allen, John Woo, Karen Meyer and Paul Ogden.

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|Biographies

|1996

|Jeffery Deaver

|The main event in this book is that a bus of eight deaf students (aged 8–17 years) are taken hostage with their teachers. The children from the School for the Deaf all use ASL to communicate. This book was made into a film called Dead Silence in 1997.

|18+ yrs

|Suspense & Thriller

|1995, republished in 2001.

(StarBridge #5)

|A. C. Crispin, Kathleen O'Malley

|One of the main characters, Tesa, is a Native American woman who was born Deaf, uses sign language and sometimes communicates through a telepath. There is another deaf character with an alternative attitude to her deafness.

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|Science Fiction

|1994

(StarBridge #2)

|A. C. Crispin, Kathleen O'Malley

|One of the main characters, Tesa, is a Native American woman who was born Deaf and uses sign language to communicate.

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|Science Fiction

|1994

|Maggie Gordon, Hamish Rosie

|Autobiography of Hamish Rosie, landscape artist and graphic designer, who was profoundly Deaf and lived on the island of Orkney in Scotland. His illustrations are used in the book.

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|Autobiography

|1991

|Henry Kisor

|This book is an autobiography by Henry Kisor. He became deaf aged three after having meningitis and communicates by using lip-reading, written and spoken English.

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|Autobiography

|1990

|Jack Gannon

|Detailed American Deaf History

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|1981 republished in 2012

|Stephen King

|One of the main characters, Nick, was born profoundly deaf and aged nine he was taught to lip-read, read and write by another "deaf-mute" called Rudy. Neither child uses sign language to communicate. The original 1978 book won several awards Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (1979), World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (1979), Gandalf Award Nominee (1979), Balrog Award Nominee for Best Novel (1979) (1980).

|18+ yrs

|Postapocalyptic Horror/Fantasy

|1978 uncut version published in 1991

|Joanne Greenberg

|The central characters, Abel and Janice, are both Deaf and use ASL to communicate. They are both members of the Deaf community and met at a school for the Deaf and Blind. They have a daughter called Margret who is hearing. As a CODA she often interprets for them at the bank etc and she feels the weight of this responsibility. The book was made into a 1985 film called Love Is Never Silent.

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|Set in the 1920s till the 1960s, Deaf Culture, Something of a CODA child's perspective

|1970 republished in 1984