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Author:

Uhlberg, Myron, author.

Title:

The sound of silence : growing up hearing with deaf parents / Myron Uhlberg.

Edition:

Hardcover edition.

Publisher:

Albert Whitman & Company,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

228 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Uhlberg, Myron--Juvenile literature.
Children of deaf parents--United States--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Deaf parents--United States--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Deaf--Family relationships--United States--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Autobiographies.

Other Authors:

Adaptation of (work): Uhlberg, Myron. Hands of my father.

Notes:

"This work is based on Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love, originally published by Bantam Books, a division of Random House, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House, in 2009"--Title page verso.

Summary:

"Myron Uhlberg was born the hearing son of deaf parents at a time when American Sign Language was not well established and deaf people were often dismissed as being unintelligent. In this young reader adaptation of his acclaimed memoir, Hands of My Father, Uhlberg recalls the daily difficulties and hidden joys of growing up as the intermediary between his parents' silent world and the world of the hearing."--Amazon.

ISBN:

0807531464
9780807531464

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1055683417

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)