TY - BOOK AU - LeZotte,Ann Clare AU - Morstad,Julie TI - Show me a sign SN - 9781338255812 AV - PZ7 .L59114 Sh 2020 PY - 2020/// CY - New York PB - Scholastic Press KW - Deaf children KW - Massachusetts KW - Chilmark KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Kidnapping victims KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Human experimentation in medicine KW - Sign language KW - People with disabilities KW - Fiction KW - Chilmark (Mass.) KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft KW - Psychological fiction N1 - Ages 8-12; Scholastic Press; Grades 4-6; Scholastic Press; 730L; Lexile N2 - It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes the perfect "live specimen"--and kidnapped her ER -