<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for LeZotte, Ann Clare,]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for LeZotte, Ann Clare,]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/lawrence/rss/search?query=LeZotte%2C%20Ann%20Clare%2C&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:37:15 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Deer Run Home]]></title><description><![CDATA[Effie is Deaf, and no one in her family speaks sign language, her language.   This moving story of survival and found family, inspired by a true court case, is perfect for fans of  Wonder  and  Out of My Mind .      "Will break your heart and then make it whole again." -Holly Goldberg Sloan,   New York Times   bestselling author of  Counting by 7s     "Ann Clare LeZotte is such a talent and deserves to be widely read!" -Lisa Yee, author of the Newbery Honor book and National Book Award Finalist  Maizy Chen's Last Chance    Effie and her older sister, Deja, have recently moved into their father's trailer after an incident at their mom's house. Daddy communicates with Effie by pointing, stomping on the floor, and making thoughtless jokes. Even if they did understand each other, could she tell the terrible secret she carries when telling feels impossible-and dangerous?  But what if telling is the only way to be seen?  This tender, spare, emotionally charged story about the impact of abuse and the power of love explores what it feels like to be an outsider in your own family and to awaken-through friendship, writing, and kinship with the natural world-to a new understanding and appreciation of yourself.]]></description><link>https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S119C547759</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S119C547759</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[LeZotte, Ann Clare]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/547759119</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781546136743/MC.GIF&amp;client=lawrencep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deer Run Home]]></title><description><![CDATA[Effie is Deaf, and no one in her family speaks sign language, her language.   This moving story of survival and found family, inspired by a true court case, is perfect for fans of  Wonder  and  Out of My Mind .      * "Quietly extraordinary." - Kirkus Reviews , starred review    * "Elegantly weaves a heartbreaking story with hope." - School Library Journal , starred review    "Through Effie, young readers both deaf and hearing will encounter a heartfelt homecoming story, and reassurance that they are not alone."  - The New York Times    Effie and her older sister, Deja, have recently moved into their father's trailer after an incident at their mom's house. Daddy communicates with Effie by pointing, stomping on the floor, and making thoughtless jokes. Even if they did understand each other, could she tell the terrible secret she carries when telling feels impossible-and dangerous?  But what if telling is the only way to be seen?  This tender, spare, emotionally charged story about the impact of abuse and the power of love explores what it feels like to be an outsider in your own family and to awaken-through friendship, writing, and kinship with the natural world-to a new understanding and appreciation of yourself.]]></description><link>https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S119C547773</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S119C547773</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[LeZotte, Ann Clare]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/547773119</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781546109808/MC.GIF&amp;client=lawrencep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sail Me Away Home]]></title><description><![CDATA[This gripping story, set in the world of the award-winning  Show Me a Sign  and  Set Me Free , completes an unforgettable trilogy centering the d/Deaf experience.     "Thrilling, important, and profoundly moving. A true gift." - Brian Selznick, creator of the  New York Times  bestsellers  Big Tree and  The Invention of Hugo Cabret , winner of the Caldecott Medal   As a young teacher on Martha's Vineyard, Mary Lambert feels restless and adrift. So when a league of missionaries invite her to travel abroad, she knows it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Paris is home to a pioneering deaf school where she could meet its visionary instructors Jean Massieu and Laurent Clerc-and bring back their methods to America!  But the endeavor comes at a cost: The missionaries' plan to "save" deaf children is questionable at best-and requires Mary's support. What's more, the missionaries' work threatens the Wampanoag and other Native peoples' freedom and safety. Is pursuing Mary's own goals worth the price of betraying her friends and her own values?  So begins a feverish and fraught adventure. Brimming with vivid detail and startling insight,  Sail Me Away Home  will enrich your understanding of the d/Deaf experience as it celebrates d/Deaf history, culture, and community.]]></description><link>https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S119C541987</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S119C541987</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[LeZotte, Ann Clare]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/541987119</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781339045122/MC.GIF&amp;client=lawrencep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show Me A Sign]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mary Lambert has always felt safe and protected on her beloved island of Martha's Vineyard. Her great-great-grandfather was an early English settler and the first deaf islander. Now, over a hundred years later, many people there— including Mary— are deaf, and nearly everyone can communicate in sign language. Mary has never felt isolated. She is proud of her lineage. But recent events have delivered winds of change. Mary's brother died, leaving her family shattered. Tensions over land disputes are mounting between English settlers and the Wampanoag people. And a cunning young scientist has arrived, hoping to discover the origin of the island's prevalent deafness. His maniacal drive to find answers soon renders Mary a "live specimen" in a cruel experiment. Her struggle to save herself is at the core of this penetrating and poignant novel that probes our perceptions of ability and disability. It will make you forever question your own ideas about what is normal.]]></description><link>https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S119C426571</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S119C426571</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[LeZotte, Ann Clare]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/426571119</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781338761351/MC.GIF&amp;client=lawrencep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set Me Free]]></title><description><![CDATA[A riveting standalone companion to the Schneider Family Book Award winner, Show Me a Sign by Deaf author and librarian, AnnClare LeZotte.  Three years after being kidnapped as a "live specimen" in a cruel experiment to determine the cause of her deafness, MaryLambert has grown weary of domestic life on Martha's Vineyard, and even of her once beloved writing.So when an old acquaintance summons her to an isolated manor house outside Boston to teach a young deaf girl tocommunicate, Mary agrees. But can a child of eight with no prior language be taught? And is Mary up to the task? With newfoundpurpose, Mary arrives only to discover that there is much more to the girl's story— and the circumstances of her confinement— thanshe ever could have imagined. Suddenly, teaching her and freeing her from the prison of her isolation, takes on much greatermeaning, and peril.Riveting and complex, delicately nuanced and fervently feminist, Set Me Free is a masterful stand-alone companion to Show Mea Sign, and a searing exposé of ableism, racism, and colonialism that will challenge you to think differently about the dignity andcapacity within every human being.]]></description><link>https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S119C501799</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S119C501799</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[LeZotte, Ann Clare]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/501799119</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781338781113/MC.GIF&amp;client=lawrencep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deer Run Home]]></title><description><![CDATA[With a family who refuses to learn sign language, twelve-year-old Effie is mostly cut off from human communication at home, unable to speak of her abusive stepfather or violent father -- only her interpreter understands, and Miss Kathy is willing to take Effie's case to court to provide her with a safe home. Told in verse.]]></description><link>https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S119C541575</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S119C541575</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[LeZotte, Ann Clare]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/541575119</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel in Verse</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781339021904/MC.GIF&amp;client=lawrencep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sail Me Away Home]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fourteen-year-old teacher, Mary Lambert, travels to Paris where she encounters a wellspring of formalized deaf education and sign language, but when she discovers the missionaries' questionable plan to "save" deaf children, she must decide if pursuing her goals is worth betraying her friends.]]></description><link>https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S119C541612</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S119C541612</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[LeZotte, Ann Clare]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/541612119</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781338742503/MC.GIF&amp;client=lawrencep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set Me Free]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three years after being kidnapping from her home in Martha's Vineyard, fourteen-year-old Mary Lambert receives a letter from Nora O'Neal, a servant in the house where she was held, who tells her of an eight-year-old girl where she is now employed whom Nora believes to be a deaf-mute, but who is being treated as insane, and asks Mary to come and teach the nameless child; a little scared, but intrigued, and bored with domestic life, Mary agrees--only to find that there is more to the child's story, and that freeing her from a world of silence and imprisonment may be more dangerous than anyone anticipated.]]></description><link>https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S119C444355</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S119C444355</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[LeZotte, Ann Clare]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/444355119</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781338742497/MC.GIF&amp;client=lawrencep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show Me A Sign]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mary Lambert has always felt safe and protected on her beloved island of Martha's Vineyard. 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(Written by a deaf author and based upon a true story.)]]></description><link>https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S119C405397</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S119C405397</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[LeZotte, Ann Clare]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/405397119</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781338255812/MC.GIF&amp;client=lawrencep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>